Lack of police presence

[JerryCarr]

Beachboy, just because we knew there were deficiencies when we moved here does not mean we shouldn't try to improve what needs to be improved. At the HPPOA meeting I attended Sunday, Officer Briski told us that the police in Puna are so short-handed that they have to make tough decisions on what calls to respond to. Sometimes they are not able to respond at all to nuisance and quality of life infractions, which is unfortunate, but understandable from the officer's point of view. It is the politicians and police administrators who let the front-line cops and citizens down by not allocating resources appropriately.

Dr. Weatherford, I agree that Green Harvest is a useless diversion of scarce police resources. I would rather have a few more beat cops in Puna than keep paying for the Rambo Squad to do commando raids from helicopters.

Cheers,
Jerry