We had been noticing a huge increase in drug arrests in the area over about the last year.
I for one have been glad to read about them. It is pretty sickening when you sit on Main Street in the tiny little town across the river, waiting to pick up an order of Chinese food, and watching a kid that goes to school with your kids dealing drugs on the street corner. No sense turning them in...you have no proof and they have been in and out of jail a dozen times. It doesn't seem to change anything. However, eventually that one stopped his activities...pretty sure he is in jail again... and dozens of others started showing up on the front page of the paper with mug shots accompanying the story, which makes for real good reading.
I thought this story about some of how they have been catching them was really cool.
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Mike is a great guy and an old friend. he even married a friend of mine who lived in Fultonville. Amsterdam is lucky to have a someone like Mike on the police dept.
ReplyDeleteVery Interesting - as always. I really like your blog!!
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Yes, men like Mike - the sheepdogs that keep the wolves at bay - stand between us and chaos.
ReplyDeleteMy mind still resists the facts of small communities having drug dealers.
Heroin?!
I grew up in the 50's/60's in a small town in central Ohio. People drank. That was it.
Looking back, I realize that two of my mother's friends had problems with alcohol. One died of it. But alcohol was legal and could, in most cases, be consumed without the threat of addiction.
Not so heroin. Terrifying.
NYV, he sounds like a very dedicated individual. I really like seeing them get those creeps off the streets.
ReplyDeleteCommoncents, thanks for visiting and taking time to comment...link exchange might be good...I will read your blog for a bit....thanks
Cathy, the whole heroin thing shocked me too, although I suppose it shouldn't. We feel so isolated up here on our hill but those wolves you mentioned are moving in all around us and we are only a handful of miles from a city that houses quite a population of them....and they have cars...