WHY THE SELMA POLICE DEPARTMENT CAN NOT ANSWER CITIZEN'S CALLS
5-8-07
Two distressing examples of Jimmy Martin's Police Department failure to respond to calls from Selma citizens have come to our attention. (1) We call everyone's attention to the letter written by a Ms. Susan Jones in the May 6th edition of the Selma Times-Journal. She repeatedly called the police to come to her neighborhood because of thugs playing loud music on a street corner. THE POLICE NEVER CAME!!!
(2) MORE DISTRESSING is the lack of response at a SELMA JEWELRY STORE. Thousands of dollars of jewelry was stolen. A few days later, THE THIEVES OR THEIR ASSOCIATES OR PEOPLE WHO HAD BOUGHT THE STOLEN JEWELRY BROUGHT IT BACK TO THE JEWELRY STORE TO HAVE SOME OF IT RESIZED TO FIT THEIR FINGERS
The Jeweler BOUGHT BACK HIS OWN MERCHANDISE AND got the names and addresses of the people who had brought it back to his store AND CALLED THE SELMA POLICE DEPARTMENT ON MONDAY, APRIL 30th, TO REPORT WHAT HAD HAPPENED. AS OF MONDAY, MAY 7th, HE HAD NOT BEEN VISITED BY THE POLICE TO GET THE INFORMATION, WHICH COULD LEAD TO THE ARREST OF THE THIEVES. MARTIN, send some of your officers around there to get the names and addresses of these potential thieves!!!
SO WHY ISN'T MARTIN'S POLICE DEPARTMENT RESPONDING TO CALLS FROM CITIZENS? We suggest 2 reasons: (1) Upon the graduation of the functionally illiterate Chief Martin from Selma University recently, he got into a SUV and was escorted all around town by 2 motorcycle policemen and 2 patrol cars, blaring horns all over the place, including through the Ramada Inn Parking Lot. MAYBE THE SELMA POLICE ARE TOO BUSY WASTING TIME AND MONEY CARRYING THE POLICE CHIEF THROUGH THE STREETS OF SELMA LIKE SOME TRIBAL POTENTATE to respond to citizens' calls for help! (2) Apparently Martin and the SPD have decided that WEST DALLAS AVENUE is the MOST DANGEROUS PLACE IN SELMA BECAUSE MOTORCYCLE POLICE ARE CONSTANTLY ON WEST DALLAS AVENUE.
AS LONG AS JIMMY MARTIN IS POLICE CHIEF, THE SPD WILL CONTINUE TO LOSE EXPERIENCED OFFICERS WHO ARE NOT GOING TO WORK FOR AN INCOMPETENT AND PARANOID POLICE CHIEF, MORAL WILL CONTINUE TO BE BELOW ZERO, AND CRIME WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE. We heard only last week that ANOTHER SELMA CHURCH IS PLANNING TO MOVE TO VALLEY GRANDE. They have been broken into NUMEROUS times in the past few months.
How much longer, Mayor Perkins, before you do the right thing and get rid of Martin and begin to protect the people of Selma??
*DO NOT FEAR... If the people are as fed up with the Mayor as they say they are, after the next election the NEW Mayor will have a NEW Police Chief!!
**We would like to thank the Mayor for getting the Mayoral Office appointment powers!
