 |
 |
|
||||
|
||||||
|
|
Featured Listener Comments Section: Contents List |
 |
|
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listener: S.
Category: Lubbock City Politics
Date: 23 Feb 2010
Time: 15:56:59 -0700
Remote Name: 66.140.104.223
Pratt:
Police spokesman Greg Stevens has again shown his brilliant insight. His
comments following the unwarranted attack on the woman in Tech Terrace were
inane. The homeowner was checking on a drunken girl who had passed out in her
own front yard when she was suddenly and viciously attacked by a female with a
broken beer bottle. Rather than assuring the public that the police will enforce
the laws, pursue the criminals, and maintain peace in our neighborhoods, Stevens
spouts some weak sociological pap about historically-based reasons why such
activities occur. The KCBD site reported:
“Stevens says in college towns, it's always difficult when two completely
different walks of life live in the same neighborhood.
'There's a higher concentration of students living there and there's also a
higher concentration of owner/occupied residents there and those two things
historically come in conflict with each other,’ says Stevens.”
So Stevens says it’s simply an inevitable result of neighborhood demographics
that out-of-control drunken assaults on residents occur, and the implication is
that there’s just nothing to be done about it, just live with it.
What is wrong with law enforcement in this city? Where is the leadership? Where
is control? Where is the expectation of the citizens that the police will defend
and protect their safety?
S.
|
|
Join our Listener
Club here. |
||
|
