December 6, 2014

I have not blogged for a long time, but I just read something in our local paper.  Seems the town over from us - smaller than Stockbridge - voted down the renewal millage on police.   Wow.  I can't believe it.

Before Stockbridge had it's own police department, we became a mecca for meth.  Local police found a meth lab about 200 feet from the elementary school. One guy was driving around in his car using it as a lab, again, it was ousted by our own department.   Once the department was established - the meth guys moved on.  Now I guess the Unadilla residents might discover the meth trade moving into their area because not only are they losing a department - but also the decommissioning of 40 some odd part time cops who could fill in and help.  Again, wow.  Please understand I'm not trying to be mean or disrespectful - but having been a person see a town get cleaned up I don't understand why you'd vote down the $15k it takes a month to create a secure safe area where you live.

Life is pretty good and quiet in Stockbridge, and I give a lot of credit to the Council and to our wonderful and caring Chief of Police.  Our only problem is the "bad guys" know what hours the police are around and a few weeks ago basically ravaged the local pharmacy we all depend on so much for our drugs.

So I hope for our sakes, we don't make the same mistake and rather than cutting back we actually get more hours so we can feel safe and know when 911 is called there won't be one of the 2 patrol cars rolling from the other end of Ingham County.