THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, December 4, 1995 TAG: 9512010011
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 30 lines
The city of Virginia Beach has found a new and preposterous way to spend the taxpayers' funds: the holiday lights that now adorn the majority of the telephone poles from 31st Street south at the Oceanfront, on 21st Street as one comes to the end of the old expressway and wherever the City Council grants it authority for the placement of these useless decorations.
It appears that there are more important projects, and one in particular is better pay for our Police Department. If the city manager feels justified by giving these officers who put their lives on the line every day a whopping 0.5 percent to 1.5 percent raise, I hope he can sleep at night.
In today's world, the criminal has the upper hand on many law-enforcement officers. Operations are more sophisticated, and most often the officers are outgunned.
Why don't the powers-that-be in Virginia Beach have any real vision of what the officers have to deal with on a daily basis, and pay them what they really deserve?
L. G. COHEN
Virginia Beach, Nov. 18, 1995 by CNB