Letter to the Editor

Residents should take back their neighborhood

Each Tuesday, I turn the pages of the Sunrise View to glimpse a look at my neighborhood. ... Why, I want to ask, why are the intersections at the corners of East Charleston Boulevard and Nellis Avenue and the corner of East Charleston and Stewart, Bonanza and Lamb, Lamb and Charleston, etc., always a cluster of such serious crimes each week on the "Neighborhood Crime Map" on page 2 of your View? I see our Metro Police are stepping up and being more active and involved with policing this part of our community. What can and should we, the good people and residents of our neighborhood, do to take back and keep our community safer and healthier?

At the corner of Stewart Avenue and Lamb Boulevard, there is a parole and probation office. On Stewart Avenue between Pecos and Mojave roads is the Clark County Detention Center. Do these contribute to our crime problems? I don't know. Location, location, location.

The majority of my neighbors that I know in the community or see around me are good working people or senior retirees who worked all their lives: parents, teachers, hard-working immigrants, striving students, et al.

They shouldn't be neglected by the snobs in other parts of this city or allowed to be preyed upon by the unseen taggers and vandals who roam the night unchecked, victimized by the zombie junkies who stagger around all day -- ignored and free to panhandle and hustle up enough change that will buy them another fix of the poison to medicate them past another 100-degree day.

I pause for now ...

"God bless us, everyone" (Tiny Tim, "A Christmas Carol")

-- Rainer Ebert

Las Vegas