Police prefer not to address issues in the less affluent areas of town to focus on the more well financed neighborhoods. Response rates, even to gun sightings, of an hour plus not uncommon. Empty promises by beat officers that prefer to do nothing rather than write a report and do their job.
I believe with all my heart that Columbia residents should donate their entire paychecks to the City. If the City had ALL of the money, it would solve ALL of the problems.
They want to raise taxes because the “sales taxes are less than expected”. Could this be due to Columbia’s citizens not shopping downtown, etc. as they do not. Want to deal with addicts, vagrants and panhandlers. Lower revenues are due to administrators poor policies and other choices ie..plan fine
Get rid of the unnecessary positions created the past 3 years! The answer is to reduce the size of government, NOT raise taxes! Columbia's sales tax rate is already too high. Continue letting crime and homelessness flourish, raise taxes, and people will leave the city,
Why not cut the city official salaries by a few thousand dollars each to help make up some of the money that the city is looking for? But I doubt a single city official would be willing to do that even though most of them live better than the rest of the city.
Traffic laws broken daily, rise in crime as Inflation gets worse.
ReplyPolice prefer not to address issues in the less affluent areas of town to focus on the more well financed neighborhoods. Response rates, even to gun sightings, of an hour plus not uncommon. Empty promises by beat officers that prefer to do nothing rather than write a report and do their job.
ReplyI have also been the victim of the police department not caring about the community because of it.
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