Annapolis Capital Punishment

CP believes this issue is so important that we must bring up the point again--WE NEED MORE POLICE OFFICERS. Whatever Mayor Moyer or Police Chief Johnson or their spokesperson Ray Weaver may say or not say, we are in need of more police officers. Mayor Moyer has made a mantra out of saying that the national ratio of police officers is one per thousand residents. She has made this point over and over while saying in the other breath that our city has three officers per thousand. THIS IS WRONG, and unfortunately, our news media are swallowing her statements like a Bay Rockfish takes the lure. It happened again most recently in The Washington Post. CP contacted the reporter and made his concerns known. If you wish to know more, see the Aug 28 CP posting below, "This is the Mayor.....".

The Mayor is wrong and the information to refute her is quickly and easily available on the internet. The Rand Corporation's study is one case in point, but so is that of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

However, in recent days, she is making pronouncements that she is taking steps to hire more officers, but why has it taken so long? And, why does she do this on one hand, and then bring up her misleading and questionable statistic on the other hand?

So our Mayor is either lazy about getting her facts right, or something worse, but what does that make our newspapers who are either ingoring this issue or going along with it??? We need every police officer on the force--except for one--and that is the only officer the Mayor can hire or fire!!!