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What about pot money?

Wed., July 5, 2017

While growing up in Seattle, you were taught that if you got lost or scared, you looked for a policeman and he would help you. Police patrolled the downtown streets and some districts on foot. Why can’t our policemen here in Spokane? Times have changed.

No money? With all the taxes now collected by the city, such as from cannabis, why is it a problem to enlarge our police force?

More taxes, according to rumor, is why pot was made legal. Where do these new taxes go? Why not to our Police Department? Certainly it could be justified by our crime statistics. I’m curious as I can think of nothing else that would be more important.

Dolores Grim

Spokane

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