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LETTER: Reader skeptical of noise-reducing COP program

'I'm wondering why Barrie police and council keep dancing around this issue,' letter writer says of enforcement against loud vehicles
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In this file photo, Barrie police Const. Keira Brooks helps test out a new system that measures the loudness of vehicles, along Lakeshore Drive in Barrie.

InnisfilToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to 'Citizens On Patrol hope to muffle noisy vehicles in Barrie,' published July 31. 

I'm wondering why Barrie police and council keep dancing around this issue.

I can't see this COP plan working. A citizen takes a noise gun and writes down the licence number of the perpetrator. If the perpetrator sees this there might be violence. Then the perpetrator gets a letter with no consequences.

Really, Barrie?

Police need to step up and quite simply do their job.

Come up to Marsellus Drive and Mapleton Avenue where every single night many very loud cars do burnouts and cause a disturbance for many households.

All the police have to do is sit and watch and the problem would be much bette. And the tax revenue would be great.

Eric Hart
Barrie