Look before you leap!
Especially when one jumps to conclusions. THis is a letter to the editor from a person stating his side of an incident. How can you come on this forum and ask if it's true when none of us (unless RIck posts here) were there?
Secondly within a couple days not only was there a written article/reply by the LPD in the paper but the article states that the LPD higher ups met with the letter writer to discuss things.
SAMIAM you are right, the LPD "constantly", if thats what you call a yearly budget request, asks for more money for training and hiring of more officers, etc. to try and meet the rise of crime and calls for police intervention and assistance. The funny part is a lot of the people who wanted a tax cap (not meaning you) are the same people now bitching that the police (all 4 of them working with calls stacked up) take to long to come and silence the neighbors dog, that the streets are in disprepair and are bumpy and that only 1 firefighter came on a fire truck because everyone else was at two medical emergencies. I'd be curious to see how many PD officers where on the day of said "shooting" and how many calls were going on at the same time.
Finally I love how some guy who lives in M'boro can drive thru Laconia and degrade and insult a whole group of neighborhoods and the people who live in them. Just because a few choose to be torublemakers doesnt mean everyone who lives there is the same. Just because they don't live in a large home in a picturesque community and don't make more then minimum wage or state aid doesn't mean they aren't decent people.
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