City Has Lost Control
Dear Editor,
Greensboro self destructs right before our own eyes!
I have run out of fingers to count the number of shootings, aggravated assaults and hit and runs with bodily injuries this week, and it is only Friday.
What’s up, city leaders?
What town do you live in? Certainly you are not too concerned about the law abiding citizens of Greensboro and should resign in the best interest of saving our soon to be lost and once fine city. If you are sick you get professional help, if your house is on fire you get professional help, if you have lost control of your city and crime, get professional help.
This lost control of law and order didn’t happen overnight. This has been a 10-year result of our city leaders interfering with law enforcement’s duty allowing them to aggressively enforce all laws! Our city leaders have every reason to declare a state of emergency and call in the National Guard or the Marines.
But they do absolutely nothing.
Such a disgrace!
Jim Donaldson
Ya think they are Democrats….seems kind of familiar?
With the loud mufflers on many cars speeding on neighborhood streets as well as main streets, it is difficult to know when the sound may actually be a machine gun!
If not killed by a bullet or a speeding car, maybe asphyxiation by a cigarette smoker not wanting to fill own car with the smoke but extend the cigarette-holding hand almost into the window of an open window of a close car.
Interestingly, there is not a single Jim Donaldson registered to vote in NC. Get this fraud out of here!
Get the fraud out of here? Start with yourself!
Do you have to be a registered voter to have a voice????? Maybe they live in another state and were once citizens of Greensboro. Your comment is absurd.
Just Bj being BJ
Kudos to Jim Donaldson’s letter of July 20, 2021. I concur wholeheartedly regarding your views on crime in our city and the apathy that seems to surround those who might actually do something about it. I was raised in Greensboro and I cannot begin to name the differences in now versus then. if I were looking for a city to raise a family in, it would not be here! I wonder how many people shy away from here because of the crime situation, not to mention companies who might want to bring their businesses here. To our city leaders: there are many people looking to you for some positive action to curb this problem. When might we expect this to happen?
Just want to be Chicago, they’re so sophisticated there!
After all it is the fault of the guns, the criminals are victims of
an oppressive society……….
Gone to hell in a hand basket comes to mind, for what’s happening.
The entire city is lazy. It took me two years to get someone/anyone to fulfill a simple request. And I cannot even begin to guess as to how many civil servants passed the buck rather than move from their office chair. We need people who take complaints seriously, tend to them immediately, make no excuses and settle the grievance. It’s really not that difficult; it’s just people doing their jobs.
Please send a copy of this letter to our city council. Thank you Jim for your letter.
Sharon Hightower complained about the police stopping “her people” in east GBO on minor infractions and went as far as to suggest they were being harassed just because they were Black. What she didn’t say was there’s a direct correlation between minor infractions and criminal history. Citizens who follow the traffic and auto ownership laws are much less likely to have a tail light out, or an expired inspection sticker, etc.