HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE TACTICS?

I read the Aug. 12 Journal Sentinel editorial taking the Beloit Police
Department to task for its barricade program ("Beloit police roadblocks go
too far in fighting drugs").

This program was requested by the residents of that small area of the city
who were tired of the drug dealing, crime and generally unsafe atmosphere.

I assume that the alternative suggestions the editorial made regarding the
Beloit program have all been used by Milwaukee law enforcement agencies with
such success that their crime and drug problems have disappeared.

Otherwise, why suggest them to Beloit?

Karla Baumgartner, Evansville