To the editor:

Jackson Chief of Police Chris Perley’s recent remarks “People should be very cautious about listening to voices suggesting defunding of the police because their motives are not always in the best interest of society” were highly inappropriate but unsurprising.

(4) comments

Dansea4

I agree with The Jackson Chief. What the man that he commented on did is just about the most vile thing a man can do! If he has pictures of little girls being sexually abused, chances are he has or has thought of doing it himself! And if there isn’t any police, criminals like him will get away with it! I hope they throw the book at this abuser and send him to jail!

Thaddeus

It was a really dumb thing for Perley to say, and it would be the equivalent of someone saying that we should be very cautious about listening to law enforcement because some police officers are corrupt and commit crimes. You think Perley would get behind that generalization? Chief should have just said "no comment on a pending case" and kept it at that instead of jamming his foot in his mouth up to the ankle.

TOWN MEMBER

Thank you for posting this. Although I want to so badly support the police in fighting crime, they are sadly never around when I need them. Instead they are filled with too much false pride and an unnecessary need to be praised 24 hours a day. There needs to be a middle ground here, and Jackson Chief truly needs to step down from his post.

Denis

Chief Perley should re-assess his attitudes and his fitness in his role in the community because he seems to be at conflict with the two.

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