On Thursday, April 15, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners will accept two grants on behalf of the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department – one for just over $214,000, and one for $217,000 and change – in order to battle the drug dealers who do business in Guilford County.
Guilford County is centrally located in North Carolina, and it’s also a good midway point for those traveling between Raleigh and Charlotte or Atlanta and Washington or New York and Miami. For years, that’s been thought to be one of the reasons this area sees a lot of drug traffic – and this roughly $431,000 is expected to help local law enforcement in that fight.
The agenda for the Board of Commissioners April 15 meeting calls for the board to approve the receipt of the 2020 “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas” grant. At the same meeting, the board will approve the receipt of the 2021 grant funds from the same program.
No county likes having the label of “high intensity drug traffic area,” however, the Sheriff’s Department appreciates the help that the grants provide. The money beefs up the operations of a local law enforcement task force that focuses on drug crimes in the area.
According to information presented to the county commissioners, these new grant funds “will be used for overtime, training, travel and technology/communications costs for the Task Force.”
Guilford County was officially notified of the funding in a late February letter from the national director of the federal high intensity trafficking area program.
The money comes with a lot of paperwork and regulations. The use of the funds is subject to various audits and other checks, and the money can’t be used to “supplant state or local funds that would otherwise be made available for the same purposes.”
What a waste of money. Here’s a hint for law enforcement ; try your local pharmacy, they are full of upper, downers and all arounders. Opioids at every one.
To reduce violent crime we should focus on violent crime not folks who medicate without a prescription. Virginia just legalized cannibus and will now be raising revenue and starving cartels of their payroll instead of casticating folks that don’t get their drugs from a pharmacy.
Have zero doubt that a lot of pills prescribed cause more problems and death than prohibited herbs. Also it is a great excuse for autorities to pull over and disenfranchise minorities in the name of prohibition.
Oh Alex, you fell into the trap. This has nothing to do with marijuana. We’re about a hop, skip, and a jump away from also legalizing marijuana. Rhino regularly posts misleading pictures or click-bait titles for their articles.
The real problem is the people that use this junque.
I think it’s more complicated than that. Some drugs are WAY highly addictive. A doctor prescribes it and a person is hooked and doesn’t have the resources (financial, social, systematic) to fight it. That person was contributing highly to society before they had an injury at work are addicts now and you, Miller, think they are the “real” problem not the people and systems that led them there.
Like I said it’s more complicated than good guys and bad guys.
Poor poor minority’s again abused by the system. Maybe driving a car with legal plates insurance and everything working along with obeying traffic laws could indeed help avoid being stopped and a small dose of common courtesy never hurts. If you are stopped and just so you know us White people get nervous when we see blue lights behind us too be smart and don’t try to run but there again as Forrest Gump said Stupid is as stupid does