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State Police Help Providence!
State Police Help!
“. . . an uptick in robberies on the East Side.”
“There will be six extra cruisers on the streets. A city patrol officer and a trooper will ride together in five of them, and in a sixth, a supervisor from each department will ride together.
“They will patrol Thursday through Saturday, from the early evening until 3 or 4 a.m.”
"We, in fact, are reaching out [to the public] when there is no crisis," said Esserman, . . .”
Mayor David N. Cicilline has approved the expenditure.
Read all about it in Projo: Troopers help patrol Providence
Is It Beginning to Sink In? The (non) crisis?
Kudos to the Mayor and the Governor for recognizing what we have known for a while: that crime in Providence has made us uneasy in our own homes and neighborhoods. And it is not just our neighborhood that has been suffering.
I’m sick of worrying each time I leave home that some criminals will try to break in to my house, or even worse, attempt a daytime break-in while my wife is home alone, like what happened on my street last week. I’m sick of worrying each night before I try to go to sleep, about my car being broken into.
Is this step, taken by Mayor Cicilline and Col. Esserman, a tacit admission that the City needs help policing its streets and protecting its citizenry? That crime has gotten out of hand and has seriously affected the quality of life in the City of Providence?
Hats off to the Mayor and the Chief for finally recognizing the [non] crisis.
I bet you that the up tick in robberies on the East Side refers to the spate of robberies and beatings in the Thayer Street area and not the robberies in Mt. Hope. But let’s hope that this rising tide lifts all boats and that the police put equal time and effort into Mt. Hope as they do in College Hill.
John Twomey
Posted at July 25, 2005 12:09 AM