I woke up this morning listening to the news about a hate
crime with 9 dead in South Carolina, we hear about crime almost every time we
turn on the radio, the tv or open the newspaper. I hosted the La Crosse Areas Crimestoppers
public forum last night and was pleasantly surprised to hear that the 9 groups
represented on the panel all work well together. I was happy to hear that there is plenty of collaboration
between many of the communities and their local police departments. I heard that many of the police departments
are pushing their police officers to get out and meet the people of their
communities, to work with the different neighborhood organizations. I was also happy to hear about ongoing training
in the different departments. Onalaska
Chief Trotnic said the city has the broken window approach, that if a broken
window remains broken, there soon are many broken windows and pretty soon something
nice is no longer nice, but if the window gets replaced quickly, it doesn’t have a negative impact. We all need to work together to make our
communities stronger.
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