Layoffs to gut East St. Louis police force

[Voegelin]

"It’s open field day now," said Tracy, the pastor of Straightway Baptist Church here. "The criminals are going to run wild."

Gang activity. Drug dealing. Cold-blooded killing. Tracy worries that a decision to shrink the police force by almost 30 percent will bring more of everything.

Layoffs to gut East St. Louis police force



As of April, unemployment was 16.5% in East St. Louis compared to 10.7% in the rest of Obama's home state of Illinois. St. Clair county voted over 60% for Obama:

2008 Presidential Elections Results in St. Clair County, Illinois

 

[Billnew]

economics.

Cut employees or raise taxes.
You can have the safest ghost town(people and jobs would leave)
or you can have people able to pay their taxes while having to deal with criminals.
This isn't some beuracrat making people feel the effects of not passing a levy. They are cutting in several areas, not just police.

 

[Voegelin]

Don Surber, Charleston Daily Mail, says the murder rate now is one murder per one thousand residents per year and offers a suggestion:
East St. Louis, arm yourself