On Tuesday’s Vermont Edition program, James Lyall, executive director of the ACLU of Vermont, and Liam Elder-Connors, a Vermont Public crime reporter, discussed crime trends in Burlington — and said crime may not be rising as much as residents think.
Federal, state and local police carried out a major drug bust in Springfield last week, and a one-man, two-day crime spree spanning Vermont and New Hampshire finally came to an end on Nov. 23 in Burlington.
Vermont should judge drug users, drug dealers and police by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. Until then, the drug trade will flourish and more people will die horrible deaths, because the drug gangs are all here.
For the second time in less than two months, the Vermont Criminal Justice Council voted to permanently de-certify a Vermont law enforcement officer’s certification. Both de-certifications occurred as a result of actions during a traffic stop.
“Those on the Left know that their soft-on-crime policies have wreaked havoc in the cities where they have implemented those policies,” authors Charles Stimson, Zack Smith, and Kevin D. Dayaratna wrote in the report.
The only solution to reverse course in this ideologically-addled plunge toward anarchy and mass victimization is the same as throughout all human history: restore balanced law and order, before the pendulum swings yet further into chaos.
Providing a safe environment for Vermonters to live work and play is the most basic and most essential responsibility of governing, and right now Democrats have been failing miserably. That’s why Republicans stand ready to prioritize and address this issue of public safety.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Burlington Police Department will be working together in an effort to curb rising gun violence in the Queen City through the creation of the Chittenden County Gun Violence Task Force.
Last week, the pro-police advocacy group Keep Vermont Safe held an event to highlight some of the biggest hurdles to restoring public safety in Burlington amid rising crime owed largely to the “defund the police” movement.
According to a legal agreement between Travis Trybulski and the State of Vermont, the incident involved his decision to stop and search for drugs (with the owner’s approval) a car with New York license plates. The decertification vote, which bars Trybulski from working as a cop in Vermont, was nearly unanimous.
Three people have been murdered by gunfire in Burlington this year. All three deaths reflect longtime, ongoing social problems common not only Burlington but all of Vermont and the U.S.
Burlington’s 23rd gunfire incident of the year occurred over the holiday weekend shortly after midnight on Sunday morning — it was a homicide, right in City Hall Park.