East St. Louis Mayor Carl Officer is upset that his city is so crime ridden, mostly due to the ill side-effects of the illegal drug trade. Mr. Officer wants East St. Louis to have more police officers (no pun intended). But as his city is so financially strapped that it couldn’t afford to engrave a new police badge, it would need help to do so.
There is a cooperative in Southern Illinois that would provide funds for ESL to hire new cops. The fund receives monies from cash and other liquidated assets that have been seized in “asset forefeiture” as part of police knocking back dope houses and dope dealers.
So, East St. Louis has to rely on the fruits of the illegal drug trade to hire cops to help squelch crime in ESL largely spawned by the illegal drug trade.
And you really think anything is going to change.
