Jerry Schanke: Incompetent?
Does anyone see a problem with this graphic from an article written by Jerry Schanke of the Vienna Times?
There have been 4 bank robberies in Vienna this year alone, not 1!
Fairfax County has a population of 1,000,000 people and has had 25 bank robberies in 2006 so far. Vienna has a population of 15,000 people and has had 4 bank robberies in 2006 so far. Nah, nothing wrong there...it's all our imagination right Maud. But at least you have your Town Green now. Always money to spend on that.
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What frosts me are the articles in the papers saying "Fairfax Police are MYSTIFIED by the upsurge in Bank Robberies...." DUH...
Lotsa Banks, Lotsa Robberies.
Don't know HOW to stop the banks from coming....Don't know that it is at all within our Town Code to deny them the right to buy property....
But totally agree that there are way, way, way too many.
Posted by: Deborah B | August 4, 2006 08:32 PM
Any reporter writing for a school paper in high school would have been all over this without being prompted. This is very revealing about the so-called press in this Town. They are not press. They are not journalists, either. They are simply hired writers in the pockets of the Council and real estate agents.
Posted by: Concerned | August 5, 2006 03:05 PM
OMG...reporters being paid off. Consultants being paid off. Maud manipulating everyone in town. Maybe they are putting something in the water to make 10,000 citizens go along like sheep to the slaughter - they do control the water you know!. Wake up Vienna, tis a battle for your very souls!!!!! Arghh!!!!!!
Posted by: shocked | August 7, 2006 05:27 PM
Maud does control the machine of Vienna politics. Not that hard to believe is it? An 84 year old woman whose life has been Vienna politics for 50 years would probably be pretty good at manipulation, don't you think?
Posted by: Not Shocked | August 7, 2006 09:34 PM
Another comparison to Fairfax County to go along with Matthew Stich's: If you take the police department budget in the latest Town newsletter ($5.1M) and divide it by the approximately 15000 residents of Vienna, you get $340 in police spending per resident. Then take the combined police and sheriff spending in the FY07 budget for Fairfax County ($201M), divide it by the estimated 2006 county population (1.059M), and you get $190 per person. Given those numbers, it's pretty hard to argue that the Town government is underfunding the police.
Posted by: Math person | August 7, 2006 10:00 PM
'Math person' are you trying to say that the Vienna Police force is not competent? Those hard working men and women are quality people! Additionally, your misuse of statistics is transparent. Obviously, Maple/123 is a HUGE artery of traffic handling far more than Vienna residents. You did not add those tens of thousands of people into your calculations...which is not surprising. Our police are under funded and understaffed for the total volume of people they must handle - which far exceeds the base population of Vienna.
Posted by: Disbelief | August 7, 2006 10:25 PM
Hey shocked I can understand your initial response. However, remember there are upwards of 10,000 voters in the Town, but only about 1,000 vote. Most have no clue and sadly do not care until something happens to them. Then they wake up. Have some more kool aid! :-)
Posted by: sick of it | August 9, 2006 12:43 PM