POLICE: A bar solution

Many years ago homeowners were charged a fee when the sheriff’s office responded to their homes for activation of excessive false burglar alarms. Why not charge bars a similar fee? The City Council and bar owners could decide how many times a bar is to use the police without a fee attached.

Why not a city ordinance for any bar to have adequate lighting and surveillance cameras in and around their establishments? How difficult can that be?

It always requires two or more police units to go to any bar fights, etc. It is always difficult trying to deal with drunks and many times leads to what many liberals feel is an excessive use of force.

Let the average citizen try to get an intoxicated person to do something, when they have a gun tied to their hip. When you have a gun on your hip and you’re getting major resistance, you need to quell that very quickly and yes for you liberals that means as much force as necessary.

Bars are a business and when its business of serving drunks costs them money, they will adjust accordingly.

When I got back from Vietnam, I was a bartender for a while and having been a deputy sheriff for Los Angeles County for 26 years, I am familiar with both professions.

GEORGE SILVA

Coeur d’Alene