CNHI
Somerset —
Dear Editor:
I would like to comment on the disagreement between the city of Somerset Police Department, mayor and the drug task force.
First, I urge them to sit down like adult men and work out their differences for the good of the people they represent.
If anyone in Pulaski County believes we don’t need the drug task force, they have their head in the sand.
My own family has had a 20-year battle with drugs. I reported my own son because I preferred jail to his being on the streets or dead. I was interviewed by the drug task force and found them to be tough but fair.
We looked for rehab, but that is difficult to find. Our path took us to Ashland, Ky. From there we saw him in jail and prison and after multiple suicide attempts, we followed him to the cemetery.
I can’t express the grief, pain, fear and anger drug use causes parents, grandparents, siblings and in this case, six precious children. It impact our entire community.
It takes a sweet, intelligent, lovely child and changes who they are forever. It’s a one-way street to misery and destruction.
Drug pushers aren’t always who we might think they are and sometimes people turn a blind eye to their evil.
In order to impact the damage drug dealers do, we need a community united together, presenting a cooperative wall that puts fear into the hearts of the drug dealers.
We need citizens who don’t turn blind eyes to drug deals; we need well-trained, honest lawmen who cooperate and work together. We need courts who understand drug-related problems and how to help the ones caught up in addictions and we need programs which can help them find their way, such as the ones at Oak Hill Baptist Church and Eagle Heights Church.
Our country is so divided with so many serious problems. It seems our elected leaders from local to national all want their own agendas. We need mature adult men and women willing to listen to their constituents and colleagues and lay their differences on the table and work together to find solutions.
I implore the ones involved with the task force to work out their differences and not give the drug dealers a pass. We need cooperation and maturity or we need new leaders. I never want another family to suffer as mine has and it’s continuing to happen much too often.
Madeline Duncan
Eubank, Ky.
