There should be more community participation with the Police. Nobody ever see or hears anything, until after the fact, then they criticize the Police. When I was growing up if kids in the neighborhood were up to no good, neighbors would call the Police or the parents of the kids. These are not kids, they are punks that have taken over the streets.
r - 9 years ago
Maybe more undercover detectives and getting rid of the property blight and loitering.
dr. zen - 9 years ago
Well said, Mel W.
Mel W - 9 years ago
I think Poughkeepsie will become a lot brighter (in more ways than one) when ignorant and miseducated people like TP were to move somewhere more suited to them, preferably far, far away from those of us who want to have a constructive conversation about the issues affecting our community. While poverty, teenage pregnancy, and the growing (ineffective) welfare system, are all issues of concern; inflammatory rhetoric with absolutely no suggestions as to possible solutions is not only pointless but irresponsible.
A greater police presence is never a bad thing but it is only a patch in a gaping whole. I was glad to hear the mayor speak about involving the community as well. We have to attack these issues as a community if we are going to break a cycle of acceptance of so many people that they have no better prospects than what they have been surrounded by. We have to build each other up not tear each other down.
TP - 9 years ago
The problem is not guns-it's a large and growing culture of work averse welfare parasites. Ferguson, Baltimore and Poughkeepsie aren't all that different.
The easier we make to for people to be irresponsible and breed even more irresponsible fools the worse we will all be in time.
There should be more community participation with the Police. Nobody ever see or hears anything, until after the fact, then they criticize the Police. When I was growing up if kids in the neighborhood were up to no good, neighbors would call the Police or the parents of the kids. These are not kids, they are punks that have taken over the streets.
Maybe more undercover detectives and getting rid of the property blight and loitering.
Well said, Mel W.
I think Poughkeepsie will become a lot brighter (in more ways than one) when ignorant and miseducated people like TP were to move somewhere more suited to them, preferably far, far away from those of us who want to have a constructive conversation about the issues affecting our community. While poverty, teenage pregnancy, and the growing (ineffective) welfare system, are all issues of concern; inflammatory rhetoric with absolutely no suggestions as to possible solutions is not only pointless but irresponsible.
A greater police presence is never a bad thing but it is only a patch in a gaping whole. I was glad to hear the mayor speak about involving the community as well. We have to attack these issues as a community if we are going to break a cycle of acceptance of so many people that they have no better prospects than what they have been surrounded by. We have to build each other up not tear each other down.
The problem is not guns-it's a large and growing culture of work averse welfare parasites. Ferguson, Baltimore and Poughkeepsie aren't all that different.
The easier we make to for people to be irresponsible and breed even more irresponsible fools the worse we will all be in time.