August 16, 2004
Toledo Blade

I recently read your article concerning possible budget cuts for the police division. I was shocked to read that on any given afternoon there are only 44 police officers in cars available to respond to a call for service. Fourty-four officers to cover a city of more than 300,000?

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This is incredible. And there are still people who wish to deny law-abiding citizens the right to protect themselves? Thank God we now have concealed-carry.

This is further proof of what CCW advocates have said for years: The police are not here to protect everyone; the first line of defense is armed, law abiding citizens.

J.J. KERSTE
Olson Street

August 16, 2004
NBC24.com (Toledo)

Toledo Police are searching for the man who raped an 11-year-old girl behind a South Toledo park.

The crime happened in an area her father calls "Hell". Now he wants the city to clean it up.

Toby Hansen spoke exclusively with NBC 24 yesterday. He says Danny Thomas Park looks quiet and safe from the front. But he says once you walk through the park it's a different story.

Behind the basketball court and over some train tracks there are slabs of broken concrete and metal rods. What you'll find in the rubble is shocking. Hansen says there's panties, bras, girls stockings. He wants to know who left this mess and he wants someone to clean it up before something horrible happens again.

NBC 24 called the City Parks Department, but our calls were not returned. The police say they won't be able to comment on this case until later today.