I write in response to your article (MyCity Logan, April 6-12), headlined “Hey Logan, it’s your time to rise and shine”.
While I appreciate the attempt to talk up the region, I suspect the rose-coloured glasses may be just a smidgeon too thick.
The statistics would prove that Logan remains a high crime area.
It is also an area which harbours a high number of people in unemployment.
If you read your own police pages, you’ll see that drink and drug drivers, thieves and hoons continue to walk the streets despite police attempts to clamp down on many of these issues.
I get it. Logan is an area where, as your newspaper rightly points out, people have got your back.
Church groups and volunteer organisations are doing a great job of helping a select few reach the road to mental and physical recovery, in some cases having been beaten up by drug addiction, domestic violence, or an underworld of gang life.
Police are doing a great job to work within their means. They find perpetrators, send them to court, and the cycle starts all over again when they’re sent on their merry way back to the same streets they terrified in the first place.
Even politicians deserve a pat on the back for the programs they’re choosing to fund with various grant programs.
But to ignore all this with a headline that suggests all’s rosy in Logan isn’t right.
I own a house, so I hope the price goes up too by the time I want to sell it.
I have friends who own businesses, so I hope for their sake that the economy picks up.
I too want friendly neighbours who I can trust aren’t building a drug den in their ceiling.
But I also want the truth.
Name and address withheld.
