Get A Grip

Get a Grip!

(Special Interim Blog)

By Dexx2G

I was driving home today and 95.5WPGC (Local radio station) had a special on about the violence in PG County Maryland.  There have been 13 murders in thirteen days, since the start of the year, absolutely unacceptable.  Outside of this atrocity the real smack in the face were the people in these communities.  WPGC sent out a correspondent just to get the reaction and opinions of these people and they refused to even comment because they claimed it was “snitching”.  Really? COM’N SON!  I am definitely against snitching and if you ask anyone who knows me they know that I am no huge fan of the police (another blog for another time), but I think we’ve taken this stop snitching crap way too far.   We are destroying our own communities and then we are being laughed at behind it.  The police really could give a sh!t less.  The police are saying that everything is ok. The deputy police chief, Kevin Davis, told residents on Tuesday they had nothing to fear, for it was merely "the lifestyle of these victims [that] has contributed to where they are in life."¹ Is that what the police are telling the families of these victims?  Is that what we have become a bunch of drug dealers and gang bangers?  Let’s wake up people, get a grip!  Fifteen minutes over the state line in Virginia they are not dealing with the same bull.  Contrary to my opinion of law enforcement, the police over there just ain’t having that crap in their state.  It’s not better over there because the police are super cops, no not at all.  The community is taking care of their own.  If anything goes down out there the police have the full support of the community, which in turn keeps the “Riff Raffs” from even attempting the tom foolery they try in PG County MD and others places like it.  Let me know what you guys think.  This happens everywhere, who are we going to blame when it’s us letting that drug dealer sell on our block, or us letting the whore’s sell sex across the street.  Stop snitching?  Stop being stupid!  A bad neighborhood comes from lack of employed persons, and from kids that have idle time, and from neighbors that hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil but still know evil is there.  Fathers not being around or the ones that are around, not teaching the right things.  Don’t ignore what’s going on in your neighborhood.  Get involved, and I know that’s easier said than done because the police don’t really offer any protection to the folks that actually want to help.  If enough people in the community get involved the community begins to flourish, I’ve seen it happen.  But let me know what you think, on this day of remembrance and non-violence let’s start something positive.  Take your neighborhood back; you don’t have to move away.  Just take care of what you have.

¹http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/12/AR2011011205315.html