Run, do not walk, to your nearest Creative Loafing box and read what Tara Servatius has to say about crime and law enforcement and our sad joke of a court system.
Let this one fact she uncovers sink in: Last year, at $4.2 million, the budget for the city animal shelter was bigger than the $3.4 million budget for the prosecutor’s office.
Our so-called leaders can find plenty of time and money for basketball tourneys and race cars and whitewater rafting but just about nothing to bring cold-blooded killers to trial or even keep crazed, gun-toting lunatics like William Edward Levesque behind bars. It is an abdication of responsibility on a massive scale — bipartisan, public and private, black and white, green and blue — you name it.
Charlotte has gotten so wrapped up in mindless boosterism — the rah-rah effort as I’ve called it — that the fundamentals of local government have been lost. If we can’t even find the money to enforce laws against killing, robbing, and maiming people, just what is the point of having a government?
I await the rah-rah answer from the rah-rah crowd.
