Letter | More police, bigger government not the answer for Carnation

Published 10:22 am Monday, December 1, 2014

Regarding your recent editorial bemoaning Carnation’s decision to not increase taxes to add more police coverage like North Bend, I respectfully disagree with your opinion.

I live about a mile from the town proper.  Carnation is a very nice sleepy little town with relatively good crime statistics compared to the rest of the Eastside. One of the attractions of Carnation is that it is not a big city.  There aren’t that many social ills that come from being urban or even suburban. We don’t need that much “policing” or other typical government services.   More police services will simply give us more “police presence” and traffic ticketing and not much more security or actual protection.  What police primarily do is write reports after crimes happen—we just don’t have that much to “write reports” on.

If you look up Carnation on City-Data.com (http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Carnation-Washington.html), you will find that Carnation has almost no violent crime and not that much property crime either. I would guess we have perhaps one burglar in town.

Unless you can actually promise to reduce property crime by adding more police coverage, there is no point to more police services.

T.K. Backman

Carnation