SENDING A MESSAGE

We watch the news and read the papers only to learn about how some police
officers are involved in wrongdoing. We must open our eyes. Little do we
know of what goes on behind closed doors.

When we learn of these wrongdoings, it makes us stop and think of what's
going on with our police force. Over the years, we have seen these type of
allegations involving police department corruption, brutality, entrapments,
bribes, sexual misconduct, evidence tampering, illegal searches and seizure
cover ups all the time.

What has gone wrong? There's a major problem that surely needs to be addressed.

This is not to suggest that all police officers are bad. But we have a
large number of police officers violating someone's constitutional rights
daily. I strongly support the three judges who ruled on the illegal search
and seizure by a south Georgia deputy sheriff. I believe that the message
sent by those judges of the 11th Circuit Court was to say to each and every
police officer, enforce the law correctly and precisely!

That message also was that state police officers are not above the law and
that they shouldn't abuse their authority.

Charles Eldridge, Roberta