Harold Logsdon is getting it all. Peachtree City is becoming his own personal red neck paradise.

"I'm NOT John Munford"

Is the drunks leaving the tattoo parlor and running the long traffic lights in the middle of the night.

I rather enjoyed watching the PTC police officer who pulled over the the teenager on PTC Parkway last week. I was doing 47 and he came barreling around me. It was funny to watch him lock 'em up while trying to pretend he wasn't speeding. I can hear him now...... "But Daddy, I wasn't going that fast. It was one of those mean old PTC cops who are always picking on us innocent teenagers."

Gee... why is it that a teenager in a car lures cops like flies are attracted to a garbage cans?

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"Be not afraid; for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people: for there is born to you this day in the city of Chicago a Savior, who is Barack the Democrat

i read the comment posted by ivars lacis in the CITIZEN. it doesn't surprise me that the PTC police department continues to practice their scare/intimidation tactics on the youth of our city. my two sons grew up with several 'encounters' with those selected to protect and serve. what a joke (the police, not my sons).

my oldest--now 25--was pulled over a couple months ago because his license plate bulb had burned out. you might think it would have been a precaution or warning. NO! he was fined $95. my wife paid the fine before i knew about it, because she knew how upset i would be. it was a good move on her part, because i was furious (still am).
the fact that $95 is more than my son makes in a day on his fulltime job didn't sit with me too well either.

out of curiosity, the next morning while i was running on the southside of PTC between 4:30 and 6:00 a.m., i counted 88 cars--and 17 of them were without working license plate bulbs. fish in a barrel for the police, right? however, i didn't see the first violator pulled over, and i passed at least three patrol cars with the opportunity to see these outlaws.

a high school classmate of mine was killed walking to school one morning. she was straddling the white line of a two-lane road in the early morning hours (just before sunrise). she stopped to tie her shoe (still straddling the line) and saw what she thought was a motorcycle approaching. however, the 'motorcycle' was actually a car with one headlight out. it was the headlight on the right side of the car--the side that struck my classmate at 55 miles an hour, killing her instantly. suffice it to say that burned-out headlights is a pet peeve of mine.

so when i see the same car heading north on braelinn road every weekday morning at 5:40 a.m.--day after day after day--even after i left a message with the PTC police about it (and i left my name) and the problem persists, forgive me if i say that i have lost all respect for the local police.

i saw that our police chief is no longer with the force. interesting how things like that work out. perhaps the new chief will understand the concept of 'serve and protect.' whatever choice is made to lead our local law enforcement, it's got to be an improvement.

as for our former chief--good luck in your 'retirement.'

Interviewing and maybe hiring a black female detective from a big city to run the police department here.

Nothing at all wrong with black female detectives, but maybe we should all be able to vote on the next police chief instead of letting the "committee" decide. What say you?