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ProJo Calling -- Kevin's Answers
John's Letter
ProJo called me on Thursday and informed me that they will be publishing my letter about Mt. Hope in Friday’s, today’s, paper.
Kevin's questions
Kevin, in his comment, asked about the police on bikes.
The foot-patrol rides bikes now, and they personally thanked me for the input of the Mt. Hope Community Website (July 12, Good Job Dist. 8) in facilitating the department to provide the bikes and authorize bike patrols. To illustrate how committed our guys are, they paid for their own bike uniforms so that they could begin the bike patrols sooner rather than later. Think about that the next time you wish to level facile criticism of our community police. Like I sometimes do. Guilty as charged. We all need a lesson in humility sometimes.
Our District 8 police have made great headway since Lt. Schiavulli took over. But I see that the only way our District 8 police can make more headway against crime in Mt. Hope is to have more police assigned to the district or to have the narco division pay more attention to Mt. Hope. But with what’s going on in the rest of the city, I don’t think that will happen soon.
It’s crossroads time for the Cicilline administration. If they keep telling us that crime is down when all indications point the other direction, then the next election should provide us with a new mayor who will hire a new police chief. A leader can’t pander over votes. All people want to feel safe in their city. Pander at your own risk!
Kevin asked about the traffic calming device at Rochambeau & Camp.
Our Ward 3 Councilman, Kevin Jackson, allocated $660,000 to traffic calming in the Summit neighborhood. The area now known as Summit, is officially known as Hope, but the neighborhood association there pushes to be known as Summit, and my best guess is that they wish to differentiate themselves from Mt. Hope. I wonder why.
You can read the details of the Summit Traffic Calming, in ProJo.
No, I don’t think the drug dealers will move down to the new island at Rochambeau & Camp, Kevin: they have a perfectly good spot rent free, right next to where you live, where you pay good money for rent.
And, of course, another reason for them not to move, if they move to “Summit” they might get arrested!
Why can’t we get a councilman who will allocate money for Mt. Hope’s needs?
It took GCCC two years to get a $50 stop sign at Camp and Jenkins! Two years to get a broken fence fixed on Cypress! Two years to get crosswalks painted to protect our childern and elderly!
And we did it, not our councilman!
John Twomey
Posted at August 12, 2005 12:03 AM