REINSTATE FINE POLICE OFFICERS

To the editor:

For a few hours on Jan. 14 three merchants of death were gone from
their place of business. For a few hours, they were prevented from
peddling their wares of drugs, disease, and death to their victims.

For a few hours, those three were unable to break into someone's
home.

For a few hours those three couldn't start someone's son or daughter
on the path to pimping and prostitution.

Only a few hours, because despite more than 100 convictions among
them, these death merchants were conducting business as usual on
Granville Mall, instead of being behind bars where they belong.

Police Chief Graham has nothing to apologize to me for. My faith in
the Vancouver police has not been shaken in any way. The injustice
here is the moral inversion that is going on, where the police are
"the bad guys" and the drug dealers are "the good guys."

Last year, a junkie was found asleep on the lawn outside my bedroom
window. He had burglary tools on him. Thank God for the police who
came and sent him on his way. (Next time, I'll call Rankin and the
bleeding heart mob.)

Constables Gemmell and Kojima should be reinstated. If as a society we
can overlook the 100- plus convictions of the three death merchants,
surely we can forgive one act of frustration by our fine police officers.

Nadine Laughlin

Vancouver