Crime In The City
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Barrie Tilghman and Chief Webster should be ashamed of themselves. I know that Barrie doesn’t have any shame, but I don’t know about the Chief. The next time they want to criticize another law enforcement unit they should look to home first.
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Pray (yes) tell how Mayor Barrie Tilghman and Police Chief Alan Webster are responsible for Smallsberry’s rising crime rate, unless they are personally the perpetrators. Granted, criticizing other entities’ crime stats may not be advisable — the glass houses thing — but blaming the mayor and police chief for criminal activity goes beyond the pale. Criticize them, or anyone, for those things they have some control over — bad breath, poor taste in apparel, anything, but not the actions of others.
Oh come on U-R, They took those posts knowing they are responsible for end results. Websters job is to keep Salisbury safe. If he cannot do so, (which he cannot) he needs to be replaced immediately. The Mayors end results are finally coming to the surface as well and as much as she wants to claim she’s all about this City, she’s all about helping her husband help developers do anything they want in this City and until she’s thrown out of office she’ll keep doing whatever she wants. It’s all about the allmighty buck! Proper planning is what was needed and the Mayor and Webster have done a very poor job in that department. Unless you’re a developer, that is.
Barrie Tilghman is the chief executive of Salisbury. Allen Webster is the chief law enforcement official. If not them, who?
In addition to being the people where the buck stops, these two people are more problem than solution. If Chief Webster needs more resources he should be spending his time attempting to justify that need rather than worrying about Hunter Nelms. Barrie Tilghman will tell you in a heart beat that Salisbury is a great, safe place to live.
Since Tilghman and Webster have time to go after the Sheriff, they obviously aren’t putting in the appropriate effort to solve the crime problem.
And or a Criminal too.
you know what they say…if u cant take the heat,get out of the kitchen.Public officials in the best of cirumstances are often held under close scrutiny by those who elected them,and those they serve-and Salisbury is far from being Utopia.I have not checked statistics,but I lived in Salisbury during Mayor Martin and Chief Dykes tenure,and it seems things have gotten progressively worse since that era in the city i used to proudly call home.
Things may have gotten worse, but that has happened fairly universally. There are more people than before, there’s more poverty and less morality and parents are failing to teach their children how to behave. Society has tried to become more “accepting” and “tolerant,” but what has happened is that we as a society have adopted (or tried) the idea that there is no universal right or wrong. Result? A generation of idle welfare mothers and children who are becoming second-generation welfare clients and see nothing wrong with it. A generation of citizens who have become accustomed to crime, violence and the idea that if you can get away with it, it’s OK. The era of Colbourn Dykes was a different era in a larger sense than just what Dykes himself did. The mayor and chief are in a sense responsible, but they aren’t so powerful that they can totally be blamed. It takes a village (sorry for the cliche) and this village is a bit misguided, as is most of this country.
Call SPD and you’re likely to get aa answering machine. There is no political will to enforce the law in this town.