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Date Posted: Sunday, October02, 11:20:am
Author: B.Starr
Subject: Re: Newburgh makes the news
In reply to: Nothing new 's message, "Re: Newburgh makes the news" on Saturday, October01, 11:08:pm

This has been going on at games for decades. Except now, they bring guns. Back in my old days, it was just rocks, or whipped cream, or fists. Mostly fists & rocks. Rivalries with NFA were legendary, especially since we were the top dog champion school in almost every sport. We held DUSO records that were unbreakable in the league. We had haters. Beacon in basketball - they’d come out swaggin to “Sweet Georgia Brown” those Bulldogs gave us a battle, when we lost to them it was after a long fight in the paint. We had a BALLIN team.
Football it was Kingston. Every Thanksgiving that game would end out season and we’d take down the goal posts. Kingston was like a hick town to us, no real issues of violence, but they’d give us a run on the field.

These days, youngins bring guns. Guns. To the game where family and community gather to cheer on their children, their neighbors, our Goldbacks team to some sense of victory in a city that doesn’t really give a …. about them.
Strive to survive is what the streets say to the youth. The school can’t protect them, the governing body is fully and totally useless when it comes to any knowledge of what real public safety takes. Then, you have the police; not respected by many, some of those elected to serve us openly, virtually & with vulgarity. Why, in a city this size, is there a need for a Chief and a Commissioner. Ridiculous, top heavy, big salary policing. Newburgh doesn’t need a Commisioner, ffs, it needs cops - patrol, says, lts, the men and women on the street, not administrators, active cops. Bodies. Newburgh has never lived up to its staffing levels, and to implement yet another administrative level without adding to the force itself is yet another bad decision. OT remains. And so does the crime. And the murders.

What the hell, Newburgh? Get your city together. All those tourist dollars will dry up quick fast if people keep dying in these streets, or getting shot at football games.

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