Editor:
It is newsworthy anytime a reporter has trouble with law enforcement, especially when their article contains pictures, a timeline and features a local authority that many of us know and respect. I expect the matter between Officer Goodale and yourself to get straightened out over time, as the Journal and the EPD work together reviewing the facts.
Having acknowledged that, I feel a responsibility to point out that Officer Goodale is a damn good cop. My brothers and I own and work in Mantova’s Two Street Music, Old Town’s music store. There we receive the brunt of Old Town’s ills: life-defeated bums, drug-riddled hobos, the mentally vacant and all the culture that comes with it. I’ve worked with Goodale on many occasions and have encountered nothing but professionalism and results. Eureka’s homeless epidemic isn’t going away anytime soon, but at least when I put in a call to Officer Goodale, I know that “the problem of the day” will get solved.
Officer Goodale has been great for Old Town Eureka, and it would be a pity to lose him.
Anthony Mantova, Eureka
This article appears in Beasts and Children.
The “problem of the day” is not “solved” if the solution is a violation of a persons rights.
Not if you’re a right-wing buffoon Mark! Rights Shmights!
“…the brunt of Old Town’s ills: life-defeated bums, drug-riddled hobos, the mentally vacant and all the culture that comes with it”.
The “problem of the day” is a local government that remains empowered by those who profit big from saturating Eureka in poverty wage jobs and the homes these workers can’t qualify to own.
Manufacturing more poverty, more crime, more drug abuse and more homelessness, gives right-wingers more to complain about.
A win-win.
Goodale is a thug that I have witnessed torture houseless people. He should be fired immediately.
Why pay for music? Why buy it from some pro-cop joint?
Why not just download it for FREE on USENET and run this clown out of business?