Where is the Sentinel's coverage on the uphill battle our boots on the ground have when it comes to drugs, cartels, trafficking, gangs and all other violent crime?
We have never seen, from one of the most respected newspapers in Colorado, any coverage whatsoever on the politics of crime.
Yes, the politics of crime.
It takes money. Smart laws instead of twisted labyrinths spouting jabberwockey language that cops and agents do not have the time to wade through. It takes our elected prosecutors to stop using our cops and agents as extensions of themselves by expecting them to act like lawyers in the field as they move to press charges. It takes our prosecutors doing their own job instead of backlogging our courts with cases where they are using the court system to find the answers and do the investigating for them.
Who decides on the lawmakers who handle the money and write the laws?
Who decides which prosecutor is going to do the job properly and within the duties and confines of law?
Who shakes the trees everywhere and rattles the sabres when those elected officials fail?
The folks do.
Those folks that cops are the only agency that is here to serve and protect. No other position in our country holds that responsibility. Law enforcement is the last line between the people and the system.
Thank you to City of Grand Junction Police Chief John Camper and all of his officers and support staff.
It was not that long ago that you took an agency that was ashamed of itself and turned it around. Now proud to be a top-notch law enforcement agency that the folks appreciate.
Stay the course. Political ball-dropping and lack of media in your court, or no.
Paul Shockley:
"After dipping in 2010, violent crime and property crime in Grand Junction increased 23 percent in 2011, a five-year high for those categories, according to an annual report by the Grand Junction Police Department.
The agency’s 2011 crime and traffic report noted moderate rises in all categories of property crime — burglary, theft from auto, shoplifting and auto theft — and a 37 percent increase in reports of simple theft.
Police Chief John Camper suggested the spike may reflect “double counting,” such as a robbery investigation which may also be tallied as theft.
“I think that’s some of what you’re seeing,” Camper said. “Theft is part and parcel to numerous other crimes. We’re certainly not seeing a huge increase in the specific number of theft cases our detectives are needing to work.”...." (Read more? Click title)
"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."
