Greensboro Now The Wild Wild West
Dear Editor,
I had an interesting conversation with an off-duty Greensboro police officer regarding illegal dirt bikes and ATVs on our city streets today. Guess what, GPD has mandated officers are not to stop or pursue illegal dirt bikes or ATVs on our city streets!
Adding insult to injury, an individual on Lee’s Chapel Road had a dirt bike advertised for sale. A potential buyer visited him to buy it and asked if he could take it for a test ride. The individual agreed. The potential buyer never returned! If the Greensboro Police Department is not monitoring and enforcing the law. How will a stolen dirt bike ever be recovered?
Greensboro has become the Wild Wild West of today as there is no longer any respect and/or enforcement of our laws. My only advice to our law-abiding citizens, “Beware and protect yourself, you are on your own”!
Why would anyone want to be a police officer with the Greensboro Police Department when they can’t do their sworn duty to enforce the laws of Greensboro, the State of North Carolina and the United States? Even New York has a solution for criminals on dirt bikes and ATVs. Time for our city leaders to wake up and protect our law-abiding citizens.
Jim Donaldson
Good letter Jim. The problem is we have no city leaders….only east Greensboro socialists. I can only hope they don’t run off the new police chief.
I don’t think the GPD has enough officers on the street to enforce much of anything. I’ve seen small groups of officers a few times. There seems to be a vacant look on some of their faces – like, I’d like to dump this job but I need what they are paying me.
Over the years, most people work at their jobs because they have to, not because the like their line of work. “Most men live lives of quiet desperation”.
Stop voting democrat and end this bull. I was raised in Guildford county but moved to Randleman several years ago because of the liberal policies the democrats were always enacting…..
Good move! My choice of Counties nearby, too.
We are fixed where we are now, but when one of us checks out, the survivor will not need all our space. Thus a move out of the County for the survivor.
Let’s all chip in and but Jim Donaldson some cheese to go with his whine. Get a life, Jim.
If you haven’t been in the middle of one of these ATV/Dirt Bike races on our city streets then you don’t understand the problem. It is truly frightening and it’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt. The drivers of these vehicles do not obey any traffic laws and fly through parking lots with no regard for people that might be walking.
Jim was expressing his thoughts, but you seem to be bent on castigating him as a person. As you said. . . .get a life “Wayne”
Wayne, you sound as if you’re the person who took the dirt bike for a test ride. Keep writing Mr. Donaldson us true conservative patriots stand with you on the values of right and wrong.
Most likely, OFFICERS were told not to stop the dirt bikes and ATVs because the riders are BLACK. It’s the same mind set that also told OFFICERS not to stop vehicles with tail lights out and other such violations, because they had been stopping mostly BLACKS.
So, BLACKS get a free ride and tons of free-stuff while law-abiding white folks pay the tab.
No, I’m not racist – just telling the facts.
FJB – No, you’re racist. Those aren’t facts you’re spouting, they’re opinions. YOUR opinions. Racist ones.
Never let anyone test drive a vehicle without payment or collateral in hand. It’s ridiculous to trust a stranger with your multi-thousand dollar property. At least get some valid ID first. No one deserves to be a victim, but when something can be easily prevented, we should make some effort.
And no, the police are not going to risk everyone’s life to chase a motor bike down the road because it doesn’t have a license plate or for some other minor offense. The risk does not outweigh the benefit to society. Imagine what GPD would have to go through if they plowed over someone’s kid while trying to catch a dirt bike that wasn’t properly registered. Get real dude.
That’s not just Greensboro, that’s just about every police department nowadays due to the litigious nature of society.