Dear Council Member Lantry, I agree that 2 few cops = 2 much crime and I ask you to join the fight to put more police officers on the street NOW. I am very worried about the potential for a huge spike in the crime rate if we do not add more police officers. We do not want St. Paul to become another Minneapolis and the only thing preventing that is the police department. I think adding 125 new officers by 2009 is a reasonable timetable and I ask you and the mayor to make this your first priority. Many will ask you ‘how can we pay for this?’ But my reply is how can we not pay for it? What is a higher priority for St. Paul city government than the safety of its citizens? Right now crime is growing and I am very concerned for the future. Please give our police department the new officers it needs now to keep our families safe in the future.

Ward 7