IS CRIME OK OF IT STAYS IN ONE PART OF TOWN?

I've worked in Brownsville for 15 years. For 15 years I've driven by
prostitutes and drug dealers on my way to work.

Go to the intersection of Green Street & Cervantes and look left or
right. Within a few blocks in either direction, you can see people
standing on the street. The activities are taking place in broad
daylight as the school buses pick up the kids each morning.

Maybe it's easier to allow the illegal activity to stay where it's
easily monitored as opposed to dispersing it through actively
arresting the culprits.

Still, our company has 300 taxpaying employees who have to drive that
street everyday, and I'm sure the poor little children waiting for the
school bus are a little more worldly than most as a result of the
illicit activity.

What do you think? Is crime OK as long as it stays in the same part of
town?

PAT JOHNSON

Pensacola