THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, April 9, 1996 TAG: 9604090003
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A14 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 26 lines
Your newspaper's short news article, ``Pressure from neighbors leads to arrests'' (April 3) tells the reader more about effective crime control then all the feature stories and banner headlines recently printed. When neighborhoods, as a group, refuse to accept crime, it will end.
Now that the citizens and police have done their job, it will be interesting to see if the courts and judges do theirs. When the suspects come to trial, it may behoove your reporters to remember who the victim in the case was. Taylor Ricks will never be able to exercise any of the ``rights'' that defense attorneys will contend excuse or mitigate the actions of the defendants.
The ball is now in the legal system's court, no pun intended.
FRANK R. HARRIGAN
Virginia Beach, April 3, 1996 by CNB