Many city officials have heard the stories: Individuals telling of uncomfortable situations they faced when visiting downtown. Recently, Dover City Council President Roy Sudler Jr. got to experience one of them firsthand after leaving a Downtown Dover Partnership safety meeting at the CenDel Foundation Community Building on Loockerman Street. The experience was enough for him to support 2nd District City Councilman Ralph Taylor’s proposal to bring a bricks-and-mortar Dover police substation to the area, an idea that will be heard during the Council Committee of the Whole’s Safety Advisory and Transportation meeting April 26.
- Best idea I’ve heard in a long time. This has been a problem for years, but no one wants to address it. We don’t need another committee formed or an outside consulting firm to tell the residents of Dover what the problem is with the downtown area. Stop being politically correct and deal with the problem. — Diane Duerr Partridge
- (In some areas in Dover) as soon as you step out of your car: panhandlers. — Clint Brothers
- Been this way since the early 1960s. Seen much change? — Howard Gaines III
- How about we elect an AG who actually will put criminals in jail instead of letting them back out to terrorize the general public? Cops do their jobs, but often it’s all for nothing. — Jason M. Giroso
- Hell, Roy could almost see the police station from where he was. — Bob Beckman
