Traffic Violations Are Crimes
Dear Editor,
Crime rate down in Greensboro?
According to the Rhino Times, GPD police chief reports that although homicides are up in Greensboro, the crime rate is down? Sorry, I am not quite that gullible! The crime reporting site for GPD has been revamped to exclude traffic infractions (I consider those as crimes), and the reporting site also often doesn’t include major crimes. (Is that to defuse the crime rate?)
GPD focuses on homicides, but just as important is to focus on aggravated assaults. An aggravated assault is where someone intended to kill another and failed (in my opinion). Get a grip on crime, city leaders, and quit trying to hide it! Maybe the City Council needs to have another meeting about setting the benchmarks for crime and not disguise it this time.
Jim Donaldson
Archaic Laws Of The Land
Dear Editor,
Right of first refusal? Really. Are we going to start re-learning about how the archaic laws of the land used to be?
Pamela Duff
I’m finding these letters to the editor a little weak lately, so I thought abut writing one. Then I realized that I don’t see a way to submit one. Hammer, could you let us know in the comments here how to submit a letter to the editor?
You’re right, some how that got dropped from our web page. Thank you for letter us know.
The address is letters@rhinotimes.com.
I have one for you: I personally went to GPD to report a crime of vandalism and was told they would not document it since the goods destroyed were not mine. Since I had borrowed them from an animal shelter and was responsible for them, I had no right to make a statement and was promptly shown the door.
While not the best customer service, that is technically correct. The owner of the property is the victim and would have to be willing to prosecute and file a report for same. You would be a witness, not necessarily a victim, unless something personally owned or rented (not borrowed) by you was involved. They should have advised you to get a representative from the shelter to contact them rather than tell you to beat it, but you know you can still do that anyway. It’s just an extra step you will have to take, and since you borrowed the equipment, you really need to tell the shelter what happened anyway.