Community must band together
What will it take before we can rid the streets of Uniontown of everything that is destroying Fayette County? From homicides, assaults and prostitution to illegal drug activity. There has to be a solution and I think that solution is banding together as a community and helping law officials and such bring down the crime rate that has terrorized this area for years. We need to start and keep in force a neighborhood crime watch on all the streets where these problems seem to persist and believe me, there’s quite a few. Like Gallatin Avenue and all the surrounding streets in that area. This area alone is a major feature in the Law & Order section of the paper as well as the entire East End of town, including Pershing Court and surrounding projects.
We as a community need to help out as much as possible, even if that means reporting any suspicious activities to law officials. If we want to make Fayette County safe for our families, children, relatives, the elderly and small business owners, then we need to bond together as a community, to help law officials tackle this huge problem because believe me it won’t go away on its own and that’s a fact.
I often hear about people whining about what Joe Hardy is doing for Uniontown but at the same time, you don’t see anybody else doing anything to improve Uniontown, so stop whining. OK? I also hate to hear about politicians saying they know all about the drug problems that are affecting this area because they hire drug addicts to work for them.
Well if you think you’re helping the drug addict by giving him a job, then you’re sadly mistaken because all you’re doing is helping them feed their addiction and that’s not solving the problem at all. Most of these drug addicts are repeat offenders who are in and out of jail, rehab and, of course, halfway houses.
If you remember correctly if it wasn’t for a man who should have been in jail instead of a halfway house, my good friend state police Corporal Joseph Pokorny would still be alive today. We need to have tougher laws, even if that means visiting Magisterial District Judge Mark Blair’s office every Tuesday and demanding that harsher penalties be imposed, because let’s face it, the problem isn’t going to go away on its own and that’s a fact.
Michael Allen Greer
Uniontown