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By Michael Bielawski for KeepVermontSafe.com
The Burlington Police Department continues to struggle to maintain adequate officer counts for the number of incidents they must handle, including a record number of non-fatal drug overdoses.
Staff has left in recent months, including three officers and two other positions. This includes their first Recruitment Coordinator, Anhad Bajwa.
“Over a year and a half—from May 1, 2023, to October 18, 2024—Recruitment Coordinator Bajwa helped with the BPD achieve its best recruiting year ever in 2023. In total, her time with the BPD saw us bringing aboard 16 sworn officers, five Emergency Communications Specialists, five Community Service Officers, and two Community Support Liaisons, among other roles,” the report states.
Despite these gains, the department continues to struggle overall with keeping adequate officer counts per the rising level of crime…. To read more go to KeepVermontSafe.com.
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With all of this new hired help you would think Burlington was on the way to utopia.
Always interesting to see mention of “non-fatal overdoses”. Most opioid users/addicts try to get as close to the edge as possible without tumbling over, so when someone is seen writhing around in their fentanyl dreamworld and attracts the attention of an onlooker who either alerts someone else or administers narcan themself, it is more likely that they just interfered with the everyday pursuit of the addict’s high rather than saving their life. A real overdose is fatal. The “non-fatal” varieties are used mostly to boost the numbers of “overdoses” to garner more public sympathy and more public money. Ask someone on a rescue squad how pissed off and combative someone can get when their opioid orgasm is ruined by the administration of narcan.
Hi Rich,
Death is not a requirement of an overdose.
Anyone that’s suffered a hangover after drinking too much has experienced an overdose.
Burlington Police Department still struggles with limited headcount and increased crime and drug related usage ” OD ” and the homeless flopping anywhere they want within the city limits, and now the city council, the same feckless clowns now want to have an ” Oversight Committee ” to make sure the Police Department is doing there job, these are the same gaggle of fools that de-funded the BPT and reduced head count………………..you can’t make this S-up !!
Any one in Burlington that votes ” yes ” on this years ballot for this committee, deserve what the city gets, one must assume that these council members promoting this nonsense again, must now have there degrees in law enforcement and policing
as they know better then the Police Chief stating what he needs and how to run hid department.
Wake up people of Burlington, you live in a cesspool and its brought to you by your
progressives in charge !!
We are spending plenty of money on the police. There is absolutely no point to have police if all the system does is immediately let the criminals back into public over and over. Bus them around in public transportation for free. Feed and house them on your dollar.
This problem is being manufactured so you beg for so much “police funding”, that they implement a federal program that is used as a weapon against YOU. The gangsters will still run the streets and do crimes, and YOU will go to prison for “hate speech” because they interpreted something you typed in the internet as “hateful/disorderly”. You are burning wood to work around carbon credits, YOU go to jail. You defend yourself against a knife wielding attacker, YOU go to jail, etc… etc..
The police are nothing more than a weapon used by the politicians that YOU dislike. “We need gun laws for the children”, meanwhile let gun criminals out in public with our children with a suspended sentence over and over.
The police know that Sarah George won’t prosecute and that the legislature only provides safe sites and needles to “shoot up” so why bother?
So the person hired to bring new recruits into the police force has quit the police force. That’s rich
Who would want to join a police force or military whose leaders won’t back you up and sell you out when you do the right thing, or they won’t let you do the right thing.