Miller Ave. Speeding

 It was very sad news on the front page of the Providence Journal

    today : " Hit-run victim( Lisselot Osorio , age 6 ) dies from head

    injuries.. "

           Residents of Miller Ave. in Washington Park  had been complaining

    for some time about reckless speeders on their street. I observe the

    same thing on Church Ave. in  Warwick. A while back I observed a

    cop on my street with a radar gun. Somebody finally got caught - perhaps

    going 5 miles over the speed limit. But late at night Church Ave. still

    sounds like a speedway. One afternoon I witnessed some punk turn at

    that very dangerous intersection - Church and Warwick Ave - and drive

    out of control right into a telephone pole. I was on my way to the

    bakery across the street at the time. On the way back- though I am no

    busybody - I told a cop at the scene that I witnessed reckless driving.

    He was not too interested. I returned to my apartment.

           I do not want to bash the police department. Often what we have

    is just a " failure to communicate ".

        " Dropping a dime " on suspicious activity  should be replaced

    by something more high-tech.

         Police Departments in Rhode Island should consider setting up

    a public E-Mail message system. Someone in the department should

    specialize in monitoring and analyzing public complaints. Otherwise

    complaints like " speeding on Miller Ave. , will just be less than URGENT

    matters on the mind of some harried police lieutenant.

           Just a suggestion for our Officer Friendly types out there.