Letters for Oct. 14, 2015 Show respect for our guests What causes the unrest between tourists and locals? According to “2 arrests in 2nd pier incident” article, locals feel like tourists are “taking over.” I think that local people have
Letters for Oct. 14, 2015
Show respect for our guests
What causes the unrest between tourists and locals? According to “2 arrests in 2nd pier incident” article, locals feel like tourists are “taking over.” I think that local people have a right to feel aggravated by visitors. I think that the tourists are pushing the locals out, as they make their way in.
Although, it is very immature for young adults to insult, beat, and/or spit at the tourists. They didn’t pay thousands of dollars to be spat at. “Several of the victims reported being threatened, spit on and punched in the head and chest.”
People need to learn to respect other people, despite the local theory of tourists taking over.
Overall, I think locals should back off of the tourists. Respect is a two-way street.
Ethan Gray
Lihue
Police doing great work
Chief Perry and his fine officers have been given the job of protecting the safety of the people on Kauai. They put their lives on the line every day even when stopping a vehicle for speeding or an expired license.
And in our chief’s wisdom of 35 years of service, he has requested a full time legal analyst to increase the efficiency of protecting our citizens.
Former police officer and now Council Chair Mel Rapozo has introduced Bill 2595 asking that this bill be passed knowing from past experience that this position is badly needed. The council defeated this bill by a 4 to 3 vote.
Since this county has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars or more over 23 years on a leaky gym roof (with still no resolution); squandered millions of dollars on bridges that could have been built for 10 times less (Olohena and Kilauea); spent millions of dollars on materials for our roads that we were not getting with no investigation, how can we possibly be balking at $124,000 for a position that our chief says he needs?
We don’t even investigate why this multi-use path is costing a horrendous $5.2 million per mile and more but tell our chief that we don’t need or cannot afford a critical position he says he needs.
Hopefully, the councilmembers who opposed this bill will reconsider and give our chief what he needs to do his job by hiring a legal analyst and not use a deputy county attorney for the position. This would save us taxpayers $20,000 annually and have a person available 95 percent of the time as opposed to the deputy who would have multiple duties and restricted availability.
Glenn Mickens
Kapaa
