About the crime problem.

So here we are in 2008 already. We have a difficult year ahead of us in fighting crime in this city. As I stated earlier, the public does not know the shape our police department is in as for as man power goes.

What the Mayor and city counselors need to look at as soon as possible is to bring back the civilian officers to do accidents and things like waiting for a wrecker to tow a suspended driver. Right now most of them only gets a ticket and sent on their way. I am sure most suspended drivers keep insurance on their vehicles. The regular officers do not have time to do these things now. By bringing back the civilian officers, it would free officers up to enforce our laws and get more criminals off our streets.

Which brings us to another important point. We had over 17,000 people that we let out on bail that did not think it was important to go to their first court hearing. That means that there are over 17,000 warrants for arrest lying around and this does not include the current everyday warrants.

Did we solve our jail overcrowding or did we just let more and more people out on bail? Many police officers find that the criminals are back on the street before they return to duty after doing the paper work.

So in my opinion, we still have a big problem with public safety, bigger then we knew about and I hope Greg does make it on of the first and foremost issues.