Update on Handy: He's done NONE of what he promised. In fact, he's moving the other way! KMTR's early election night coverage included an interview with Handy featuring him saying, ''We've GOT to get more police officers on the streets!'' Yeah, right. How did that work out? Now Handy is part of your anti-public-safety consortium. (Sorenson, ...

The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, the agency charged with advising the governor and the legislature on Oregon criminal justice issues, recently completed it's analysis on the growing Lane County crime problem. As your public safety officials have been telling you for years, while crime has been DE-creasing in Portland and Salem, it has been ...

All of what I've said is true and, once again, you're confused. What part of the word ''Hypothetically'' didn't you get? My point was, obviously, that even if you were right about the misconduct (you're not), your explanation could not be the cause/reason/explanation for the county's failure to fund public safety -- because even your ...

Mr. Bussey, the statistics ARE accurate, but there are many, maybe even a majority, who believe you have no public safety problem at all. Others, like Mr. Spring, believe the problem is a new development caused by the bad economy and completely unrelated to system capacity shortages. According to a public records request obtained by my daughter, ...

There is a PILE of misinformation being pumped around this forum. KMTR has access to the real statistics from the sources. Given the amount of public safety interest/discussion here, why not settle the dispute by posting the most recent staffing and crime stats for Lane County? As it is, people like Mr. Bussey (aka theeyelady, aka ...

While we're at it, let's increase capital gains tax rates. As Charlie Gibson pointed out in his interview with then-candidate Obama, raising capital gains tax rates has always resulted in LOST tax revenue, but it should be done anyway, because it's ''fair''. While we're at it, it's UN-fair that the lowest 50% of income earners pay up to 1% of the ...

theeyelady:Halo, your assessment of how advertising that Lane County has de-funded public safety has caused an influx of criminals is accurate. Who caused this? The Lane County Board of Commissioners. They were receiving federal “timber land” funds, ½ went to the county the other ½ , about 20 million a year, went to “forest ...

Lance, I can't speak to all of Hope's points, but she's right on the robbery statistics. They have been steadily increasing in Lane County since before 2005. The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission has acknowledged that Lane County is the only area in Oregon where crime has been steadily getting worse for the last six years. You may be the only ...

Yep, no surprise. The DA and the Sheriff predicted exactly this scenario during the 2004 and 2005 budget hearings when some dummies were claiming that the solution to the Lane County crime problem was more ''services'' for locals. Either the DA or the sheriff pointed out that that most of the recent murders had been committed by people who were ...

Two or three years ago there was a wing-nut in southern Lane County who made up a very similar story. He blamed his failures on everybody else and claimed that everybody was picking on him because he was an indian -- a fact almost nobody would have known and even fewer would have cared about. He made all sorts of claims of prejudice and ...