In your article “Residents Critique ‘On-Call’ Police Service, my position was misrepresented as saying the borough should lobby for the trooper position’s reinstatement.
While I do support having a ‘Blue Shirt’ stationed here in Haines, funding is short, we cannot afford everything we want.
My position is the borough has not exhausted every effort to force the Troopers to accept jurisdiction as set by the Alaska State Legislature. Efforts should include more than a “couple”…
