Several years ago, my family and were staying over night in a motel along Rte. 80 between Detroit and Baltimore. My children were little at the time, and it was a Saturday night.
In the room below us, a party was going on. The noise was so loud it sounded as if it was in the room with us. No doubt, there was drinking, and goodness knows what else.
Now, this motel is a chain of high reputation in this country. So at about midnight, I went downstairs to the night manager and complained. The night manager, annoyed at my complaint, offered me another room.
I responded:
“Why should I be the one who has to move? I’m not doing anything wrong. Why shouldn’t the people below be asked to move…out of the motel.”
He didn’t have the courage to honor my request, and by 3 a.m., the noise subsided.
So I read in today’s Baltimore Sun about a woman from Waverly who has had it with the drug activity in her neighborhood. A home owner, she has actually confronted the young men who were hanging out outside of her home.
So now, they are in police protection. Their house has been vandalized and someone wrote “rat (expletive) on their front porch. The woman called police, and now she has to worry about her own safety.
Mayor Dixon; Councilman Mitchell, please.
While you’re running around the city talking about crime and education, you should be sitting on this woman’s front porch staring down these thugs. This IS NOT THEIR CITY! For us to begin to take the streets back from these thugs, our leaders need to stand up to them, sometimes in person.
This woman in Waverly, all she wants is a nice place to live, a neighborhood where her children can play outside and not worry about gangs and bums.
Go their Madam Mayor. Go there challenger Mitchell.
This woman shouldn’t have to leave her home.
But these directionless thugs, should be taken out and kept out.
They don’t belong in her neighborhood.