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Barnes: City is Soft on Crime

October 20, 2020 By Dick Cook and Contributed Article 0 Comments

Oh boy! Yes, East Ridge has gotten VERY soft on crime.

With the police doing their job there is no backing. Let every kind of riffraff come in and all the Section 8 housing. Sirens are blazing down South Seminole every night of the week going to the the apartments where there’s trouble every single day. Close this scrapped place down.

I would like to get rid of everyone that is in office now and put some new people that will be accountable to the citizens of East Ridge.

Homemade signs and crap out on the sidewalks and businesses with no ordinance whatsoever. I see piles of ungodly trash everywhere riding down the road.

News Break … Camp Jordan is not the only place in East Ridge. You might want to come up towards the tunnels a little bit.

_ Julie Barnes

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About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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