9 Responses to “March and rally against drugs”

1. posted by brenda p at May 4, 2008 9:08 am :
   

   In the RTD:

   [Mayor] Mickens, referring to Petersburg’s most dangerous finding, turned the table on the pushers: “We are the most dangerous place for every drug dealer,” she declared.

   “If I must be dangerous,” she added, “I will be dangerous in the name of the Lord.”

   Great. Step 1: increase the city’s funding allocation to the police dept.

2. posted by tg4360 at May 4, 2008 9:11 am :
   

   Amen!

   More cops visible on the street alone would put a damper on the drug trade.

   Then, with the patrol ranks filled out, special units could be formed to target problem area and the city could be made TRULY dangerous to sell drugs in.

   More action, less talk from City Council.

3. posted by tg4360 at May 4, 2008 9:15 am :
   

   As an aside, I’ve talked with drug agents that work the Northern Virginia area and they have problems getting suspects to do deals in Virginia because, as the druggies say “It’s to dangerous to get caught in Virginia! They make you do SERIOUS time!”

   Thus proving that with both tough laws and enforcement you can drive the bad actors out of a particular jurisdiction.

   As they say in war though, you need boots on the ground.

4. posted by brenda p at May 4, 2008 9:24 am :
   

   What the P-I quotes Mayor Mickens as saying:

   “This is wonderful that the community would come together and attack one of the top priorities of the city,” Mickens said before more than 150 members of the community from various churches that marched to Poplar Lawn Park for an anti-drug rally. “Hopefully we’ll continue to have the support of the community.”

   What’s interesting to me, is that the community sees it the other way around — the community has been signing a petition to ask Council and other city leadership to change its funding priorities (i.e., make cuts where necessary to allocate more to the PD) so as to be able to better address these problems.

5. posted by shawn at May 4, 2008 10:11 am :
   

   More cops are needed first.

   Next, higher wages.

   Second, every person who has publicly said the there is corruption in the PPD has themselves been questionable. That does not mean that there is no corruption.

   My best friend in professional school was the son of the head of internal affairs of Tehran’s Police dept. That was a LARGE PD. When he heard that Buffalo NY was being “forced” to pay their police low wages, he got really angry — not because he had any love for police, but because he said “you give people THAT kind of power over the people and crime, and then you don’t pay them a good wage, you are BEGGING for corruption, which will DESTROY that community.”

   Food for thought.

6. posted by James Wesley Medlin at May 4, 2008 8:30 pm :
   

   On any ordinary day I can see drug deals in progress on the streets of Petersburg….in old town or anywhere else I happen to drive.

7. posted by tg4360 at May 4, 2008 9:53 pm :
   

   Then on every given day that you see that, you should call the police department and report it.

   Dixon is all about the squeeky wheel getting greased and they need the data for targeting.

8. posted by James Wesley Medlin at May 5, 2008 12:21 pm :
   

   Sure……..how about this target: PETERSBURG.

9. posted by bruno at May 5, 2008 12:34 pm :
   

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