How worried are you about crime in downtown Dover?
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Recently, the chief of the Dover Fire Department asked the city for permission to place a fence around its firehouse and parking lot, due to theft, drug use and unauthorized visitors. Are you concerned about the prevalence of crime in the downtown areas of the capital city? Have you altered plans to visit there? How can Dover officials address this issue?
A fence will never keep the trouble out. Get rid of the problem. — Jane Jones
Well needed. — Dennis Orlando Jr.
It’s sad that it has to be done in the first place. — Jennifer Rambo
Yes, it’s needed for their safety. Dover is bad! It’s definitely not the Dover I grew up in. — Danree Heath
The mayor needs to go! — John Greene
It’s a sad state of affairs in that area. It’s never been great, but it has been much better. It’s not likely to improve anytime soon, either. — Jonathan Contant
Dover is fine. It’s no different than Felton or Camden or Federalsburg, Maryland, or Wilmington. Just look alive. Be respectful of your spaces and the people around you. Keep your head on swivel, be kind to people, and you’ll be fine. — Beth Coyle
Take the money from Best Buds Dispensary. It is getting 18% tax. Put speed cameras in. Make a killing in the summer. Ride down to Milton. We all go slow because of speed cameras. — Rachel Wood
Didn’t they just put a fence around the police department for basically the same reason? — Duane Johnson
I think the Dover police should have an office at the firehouse. This way, they are in the area where most of the problems are. They would have an appearance in a crime- and drug-infested area. — Rebecca Manahan Martin
I’m more worried about why people feel compelled to do crime than I am about crime itself. If only we had the same amount of interest in our own government committing mass amounts of crime that is robbing people of their sense of security and pride. — Katarina Delevont Ducay
Considering the number of homeless individuals sleeping in doorways and drug users walking around stoned out of their minds? No. I do not feel safe, nor would I bring visitors to see what has happened to our city. I don’t have answers for the problems. I wish I did. — Sharon Persing-Petersen
The Camden firehouse has a fence around its lot. No crime issue and no fence issue. — Rob Doyle
Until the Justice Department stops letting criminals go, you will never solve the problem. Get real help for the addicts and get the ones off the street who are terrorizing the countryside. — Linda Deaton
More police presence. — Patti Smith
A parking garage for downtown is a phenomenal idea to bring more customers in for the small businesses trying to succeed. However, at the same time, it will become housing for the homeless and a place for out-of-sight drug deals, unfortunately. I know this is a horrible thing to say, but unfortunately, it is reality. — Amber McGaughey Roos
What’s the point of being police if the police can’t police when they are just around the corner from the fire department? Where are the foot patrols? Even the ones on horses would be better then nothing. Something has to change to improve. — Yahaira Rivera Delgado
I work at a business in downtown Dover that also had no choice but to fence the property, several years ago. We could literally not walk to our cars and be there long enough to start them without strangers tapping on the windows. However bad you think downtown Dover is, you’re right, and it’s probably worse. — Sherri Farmer Baynum
We need more foot patrol officers downtown, and we need to address the homelessness issue in Dover. — Sallie Hevalow Seger
I work downtown. We are constantly stepping over needles, alcohol bottles and human feces. While they are building the parking garage, there are not enough spaces to park downtown. So, we have to park elsewhere and walk farther. No big deal, except that you get constantly haggled by folks when you’re just trying to go to work. My heart definitely goes out to those folks, but it’s an unsafe area. The city did not plan the closure of our parking lot very well and has not increased police presence. You know you are downtown as soon as you get close because it smells of marijuana. — Elizabeth Brode
I don’t go downtown unless I have to. — Bob Hice
It’s not just downtown; it’s all over Dover. — Debbie Allen Wambold
