I almost choked on my coffee and doughnut when I read that the Middletown Township chief of police said "we’re strong on safety" when talking about his police department. So that’s why it took only 15 months (one and a quarter years) of calling the traffic bureau for them to address the illegality of telephone utility trucks using my residential street as a private driveway to their Middletown office? Should I get into just how dangerous these trucks can be, or do we all understand the consequences of what would happen if one should accidentally get in the way of a 4 ton telephone utility truck?
The police department’s reaction to this situation was obviously not strong. As a matter of fact, there was no reaction at all for well over a year. Certainly now, how you would expect your police department to respond to those who so brazenly, blatantly and intentionally disregard the law, while at the same time knowingly create a safety hazard?
What I found to be impotent and weak they apparently consider strong. The township’s police department should save the "we care" rhetoric for those with less experience in community matters.
Marguee Checton
Middletown