Two Woodstock residents laid into the City Council last night and expressed high displeasure with the “community policing” program of the Woodstock Police Department.
I arrived shortly after the beginning of the meeting, when a woman was reading a sharply-worded, well-written statement to the Council and asking pointed questions. Her remarks were followed by those of her husband, a retired police officer. He spoke well and without notes. The gist of their complaints is that the strong police presence around the Square has drained off protection levels elsewhere in Woodstock.
Their home in the Prairie Ridge subdivision was apparently damaged to the extent of $12,000, and they and other residents are concerned about the scarcity of police protection in the middle of the night; say, between 9:00PM and 4:00AM, when there might be one sergeant and three officers on duty. It’s easy to imagine that one serious call can require all four, and not just briefly.
What is the real extent of gang activity in Woodstock? My sense is that much information about Woodstock gang activity is not released to the press; if it is, then the press is choosing to be selective in its reporting of it to the public.
The law-abiding People of Woodstock are not going to tolerate gang activity, but we’ve got to know about it in order to take effective action against it.
More details will follow. I stayed at the Council meeting to hear the consultants discuss the parking study.
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