In Harrisburg as well as in many other parts of Pennsylvania, Hispanics aren't given police protection. These very hard-working assets to our community and economy are treated like junk, like second class citizens. They are deprived of a most basic need - safety. If there's a need for cops, it's to protect us, to keep bad things, especially violence from befalling us. In Harrisburg, the cops are too busy protecting "Alcohol-Alley," the crackpot mayor's Shangri-la, to protect those who truly need it. Before five PM on a recent evening, while it was still bright daylight, a pair of black teenages cornered an Hispanic laborer on a porch on a busy part of Derry Street, a main thoroughfare. These boys, about 15 or 16 years-old, stuck a gun in the man's belly and screamed for him to surrender his money. This has become a very common occurrence in Harrisburg and other parts of Pennsylvania, predators rob Latinos because they know that the police don't care and won't protect the Latinos. They'll protect Alcohol-Alley and the mayor's neighbor, but woe to the working people who must risk the predators of the city's slums. Our cofounder happened to come upon the armed robbery as the Hispanic man was yelling for help. She immediately phoned the police. It would be an easy matter for her, an older white woman, to be victimized by the same dangerous predators. Before the cops arrived, the armed robbers fled. They realized the woman had called the cops and other persons had responded to the victim's screams for help. The cops fiddled around. They took notes and scratched their butts, but they didn't look for the robbers. The reason that they showed up at all was because a white woman, an "anglo," had phoned them. The cops indicated that they had a pretty good idea who the assailants were, but they made no effort to go after them or even to disarm them. When our cofounder followed up on this incident to see if the predators had at least been disarmed, she was given a most peculiar explanation. She was told that instead of detectives trying to get the holdup men, some police captain was "working with the churches" to control the problem - working with the churches!? What kind of nonsense is that? Since when is Christian mythology and blue-haired busybodies the stuff of effective police work? In Harrisburg as well as in other parts of Pennsylvania and the nation, government has become an extension of crazy Christian dogma. There's no separation of church from state and bundles of tax money is flowing into religious coffers. It's all part of the conservative political program of creating a Christian state religion. It's madness. Needless to say, the dangerous young predators were not disarmed. And this was a very serious offense. Armed robbery, a first degree felony where someone could get killed. Had it been a trivial sexual offense, droves of slavering cops would have swarmed allover it; sex is serious, death is not. This is not an isolated incident. A few months earlier our cofounder had to help another Hispanic in a similar situation. The victim was a teenage boy who's been working two jobs. As he got into his car, a carload of predators, two men and two women blocked his way. At gun point, they demanded his money and his car keys. Fortunately the boy wasn't hurt. The predators felt safe robbing him because they knew that Hispanics are easy to victimize. Even if the victim goes to the cops, the cops don't care. The crackpot mayor doesn't care. He's too busy building unwanted museums that nobody uses to do his job. Our cofounder contacted the police and has since been helping the victim. The cops stumbled upon one of the women, but the real culprits are still running around with guns. Guns are bad - period. Harrisburg is not a good place. We urge you to avoid it. We wonder why Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, the renown search engine, don't change their algorithm so that truth is differentiated from platitudes. Persons who would do a web search of Harrisburg could get the truth of what the place is really like instead of of misleading official bunk. If we're going to have cops, at least they should do their jobs and protect ALL the people, regardless of their race. Hispanics deserve the same respect and protection as is given to Afro-Americans, whites and the mayor. Had predators menaced him with a gun, you can bet the cops would find the guys. Rebecca's Bargain Antiques Collectible Vintage Photos Fine Prints - Old Maps Sheet Music - Old Books Elegant Antiques and Collectibles "A day without sunshine is like night" anonymous, circa 1950 You are welcome to use or republish any of our material. Please give www.prisoners.com credit as the source. Return to the Public Enemies Menu Return to the Pennsylvania Sucks Menu Return to the Main Menu Go to our site's Search Engine Send us Your Comments or Input.