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in officers’ closets So a fired Honolulu police officer is hired by the DLNR as a law enforcement officer. This is disturbing enough, but it gets worse. There are no records of
Don’t hide skeletons
in officers’ closets
So a fired Honolulu police officer is hired by the DLNR as a law enforcement officer. This is disturbing enough, but it gets worse. There are no records of the investigation as police disciplinary files are destroyed 30 months after an investigation begins. What?
Some investigations take that long. If this was the case on the mainland, there would be no records of the prior investigated offenses of police officers who shoot people. No pattern could be established. Are we protecting police officers to the detriment of the people?
Cindy Whitehawk
South Kona
Last word on this tit for tat, then we’re done here
Oh, how to respond to Mr. Coakley and his North Hawaii Community Associations letter to the editor on Jan. 13?
More 1950s reefer madness propaganda with unnamed certified studies and doom predictions if sick patients no longer have to grow their own pot and can purchase their legal medicine in a safe and secure location. Mainland pot interests intent on subverting our youth by subsidizing the dispensaries even though the DOH has not even selected who they will be.
Hide the women and children “they” are coming for them! All this baloney despite recent Pew studies that show 65 percent support for legalization among millennials. Just who is out of touch, me, or Mr. Coakley? Representatives of the people passed this dispensary law. Is Mr. Coakley a supporter of law, or only the laws he likes? I have no doubt that in the future marijuana will be legal everywhere. Women’s rights, same-sex marriage, transgender rights, gays in the military, society changes and moves forward. Thank God!
The war on drugs has failed, year after year. It is an expensive war that consumes resources and stigmatizes our kids with arrest records and brutal incarceration instead of help. His mention of Ohio as a beacon of sanity cracked me up. What is Ohio famous for? Strudel? Washington state is a hub of employment, high-tech and creative innovation. I think it might be wiser for Hawaii to take some advice from Washington, not Ohio. Again, I take no position on legalization but I do take a stand for upholding the laws as they now stand. I do support a smarter approach to drugs. Harm reduction and treatment instead of criminalization and incarceration.
Joseph Appleton
Waimea
