Grant Puts More Officers On Whitehall Streets
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Regardless of where you live, there are speeders. Police and patrols can only do so much, but with tight budgets, manpower is challenging.
WHITEHALL, Ohio —Regardless of where you live, there are speeders. Police and patrols can only do so much, but with tight budgets, manpower is challenging.
A justice assistance grant in Whitehall will net nearly $25,000 to pay for officer overtime.
Those officers will be set up for a summer’s worth of overtime to specifically watch speeders.
City officials say that just like every community, there are pockets of speeders in Whitehall.
Some residents say the problem continues to grow.
Kenneth Swanson is a former police officer and public safety director and says the only way to curb speeding is to have more cruisers visible, and hand out more tickets.
City officials said they track data through stealth radars, set up radar trailers and can add more officers in those spots.
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There are numerous other criminals that are caught because they are speeding. It takes some of the “real” criminals off the street. It is a means to an end. Why would we not want our streets safe no matter where they are located? I get tired of hearing people bash and question police for doing a job that can be deadly. A whitehall officer was killed several years ago serving a “routine warrant”. There are bad apples in every profession. Let them do their jobs kids…no matter where the money is from.
I have to agree with anon55. I moved from Whitehall last year due to the burglaries and random vandilism. They need to patrol around and keep an eye out for the youngsters that are running through the nieghborhoods while thier parents are at work. I assume that this is what they will end up doing with the overtime anyways. Speeding in Whitehall is in comparison the same as the rest of columbus and surrounding suburbs. I think (my opinion of course)that Whitehall PD tends to do things a lil backwards making things more difficult, $25,000 is like half my salary of regular pay, i could’ve sworn that overtime is time and a half pay. it almost seems smarter to hire an extra officer that serves that purpose only.
Speeders are a danger to citizens as well. Tell people that have lost loved ones due to someone driving like an idiot that what the other person did is not a real crime. It is up to prosecutors & the courts to make burglers, rapists, & murderers pay, not the police.
patriots
Why are the crimes that bring in revenue always enforced?
Convicting burglers,rapists and murderers dont pay the bills i guess.
I don’t speed around anyway i think if grant money is tossed up it should go towards real crimes .
Maybe the overtaxed citizens shouldn’t break the law then no fines would be squeezed out of them.
watching speeders (great).
Lets watch for criminals rather than squeeze fines out of the already overtaxed citizens!
What is $25,000 going to get you anyway about 40 hours of work?
I’m thinking that speeding cars are the least of the problems in Whitehall
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