To Protect and Serve?

Ken O’Brien

Today’s Worcester Telegram and Gazette carried an article by Brian Lee titled “Southbridge issues flurry of winter parking tickets despite mild season”.

In that article we learned that during this “winter” the Southbridge police had issued 355 tickets for violation of the alternate side of the street parking ban meant to facilitate snow plowing.

Update on Southbridge Police Candidates

Ken O’Brien

Reliable sources are now telling me that candidate for full-time Southbridge police officer, Ms. Ortiz-Diaz, will be made a dispatcher until she can qualify for the police academy in June.

I have no bias against this person; I am only addressing the process and the apparent hypocrisy that is going on.

Immediately before the section that I previously quoted from the town manager's response to Roger Caouette, Mr. Clark said, "…we were attempting to recruit people and have those done in order to try to get to an academy so we could get officers into an academy.”