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A Thinking About Mt. Hope Rant
I was thinking about life in Mt. Hope.
I am in agreement that Mt. Hope would be completly diffrent if Col. Esserman had bought a house here- but why would've he? You think he wants to worry about his house being broken into? Drug dealers working his street where his kids must walk past them? No way!
I think, city officials like having Mt. Hope around because they know where the crimes will be, and they can at least contain it to a few blocks. What they do not understand, and we have to MAKE them understand, is that this is not an inner city ghetto, deteroiating, neglected, and ruled by gangs, but on the contrary, it is a vital, growing community under renovation, and becomming more positive with a rapidily changing dempgraphic, and that people who buy and live here care. They want the the officials to recognize this and change the way they govern Mt. Hope,
The people who bought here and live here, they do not like screaming late at night around their houses or people asking for a bucket of water. YEAH!
People, we can not be afraid of the criminals!!! We have to make them afraid of us. Do not befriend them because you are afraid your house is next.
I am very sorry everyone has to go thru this. I feel for those who are victimized, but let us not continued to be victimized. We need to stop bitching and start acting. I want to call the police everyday and ask them why we have to put up with this crap all the time.
Can you tell, I am a little frusterated and have very little faith in our system?
Ellen Baver
Posted at September 13, 2005 10:30 AM