Occupy Richmond Occupies the Richmond Police
Lt. Hood presented an update* tonight on the local crime situation. Anybody who knows him knows he doesn’t pull punches. Among the most concerning comments he made was about the strain the Occupy Richmond movement puts on the police manpower at a time when all available resources should be patrolling our streets. Any public event now is fair game, so when the Mayor speaks at the Marriott, Occupy Richmond is not far behind and the RPD is enforcing crowd security and maintaining public order. For a group that is so concerned their own rights, they show little regard for the residents of Greater Jackson Ward. Wherever they go, so go the Richmond Police and so go our tax dollars. Some of us hope they make themselves at home in South Richmond. I can’t feel much sympathy for the Mayor. He helped create this problem. Now he will get to experience what the rest of us have been going through for a month now. Sadly, so will his neighbors.
*I’ll address this separately later today.
So to understand the point of this editorial, the police are doing their job wrong and it is Occupy Richmond’s fault? You are attributing the responsibility for the safety of Jackson Ward to Occupy Richmond?
No I am not attributing the safety of Jackson Ward to Occupy Richmond. I am accusing them of calously draining resources and tax dollars. I’ve not heard one word of concern for others from them. This “we can do what we want cuz we’re trying to change the world” crap doesn’t cut it with me.
As Occupy Richmond jaunts across town, cops are taken off the streets in Jackson Ward. In the middle of a crime wave in our neighborhood, that is a bad thing. OR is draining our limited resources so a few dozen of them can make news. If the choice is following OR or helping to prevent another armed robbery, I know what I want RPD to do. RPD does as well…..but it is being forced to respond to OR. Not blaming RPD — definitely blaming OR.
Mayor Jones is fired up and taking action!
Dwight Jones signs petition.
I think the OR and all the other city Occupy groups should change their focus to Occupy Congress. The real villans in our economic crisis. They have the power to change our future.
Expecting Wall Street to regulate itself is unrealistic and it has become painfully obvious that expecting congress to do it’s duty is unrealistic!