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Dear Editor:
With the city's
shrinking public resources including in
our SFPD, here's a cost-effective idea
to focus attention on, and possibly
stop, drug house activity.
Panama City, FL and
Peoria, ILL police departments use
re-armored former Brinks' trucks with
add-on video cameras to park in front of
suspected drug houses.
"I wanted
something tall and obnoxious," said
Panama City Police Chief John Van Etten,
who thinks there is going to be "some
pretty immediate compliance."
“'In the area near the (Armadillo) truck
during that period (it was parked),
houses aren't burglarized, drug
trafficking stops, so I think real
crimes are being prevented,' says Police
Chief Steve Settingsgaard.”
The
wait list for the Armadillo from
neighborhoods in Peoria is a month.
Glen Park has a more-than pesky
possible drug house on Arlington Street
and possibly one on Laidley, houses
which drain police resources, frustrate
the neighborhood, and create one arrest
per month for the past seven months, yet
nothing seems to work to get rid of
them.
How about something
creative and non-lethal like an armored
"San Francisco Lighthouse" or a "Bay
Area Brown Bear"?
Ann Grogan
Glen Park resident
2912 Diamond
St., Ste. 239
SF CA 94131
415
587-3863 |
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