PROSTITUTES, DRUG DEALERS FREE TO OPERATE WHILE HONEST CITIZENS FORCED TO
RETREAT

I am a 26-year-old single mom of three beautiful girls. Two of my girls
attend St. Alphonsus elementary school. I deliver papers in that area at 3
a.m. and I am scared about how many hookers, drug dealers, needles, broken
light bulbs used for crack and used condoms there are all over that area
and in the apartment building right across the street.

The hookers and drug dealers surround my van banging on the windows, trying
to sell me weed and sex.

Now if criminals are working so openly from 3 a.m. to 6:30 a.m. when I
finish my papers, then why are they not being arrested by the dozen?

I just quit my paper route this morning as it is no longer safe for me. My
van window was smashed. The repairs will cost more than I make.

So now I am a single mom with no income, all because these hookers and
dealers have more "rights" to carry on free from harassment than I do.

Suzanne Howard,

Edmonton