Editorial: Hooray for our cops

Everyone in Wake Forest should be cheering for the current emphasis the Wake Forest Police Department has on looking for and charging intoxicated unsafe drivers. Every arrest lessens the danger for all of us when we travel Wake Forest’s streets.

We live on South Main Street and, through 50-plus years, have watched the 11 o’clock traffic stop — or the 7 p.m. stop — at the Friendship Chapel intersection. We’ve seen the drivers trying to duck down Forestville Road or Cimmaron Parkway or make a U-turn in the Hoy Auction parking lot. We cheer when the cops pursue and catch them and when they find a driver with alcohol on his/her breath.

As Chief Jeff Leonard said, every intoxicated driver threatens every driver he encounters and makes our streets less safe. There are available options to return home safely for those who drink: Uber, taxis, friends.

We have a very safe community overall — assaults are rare, the last murder is far in the past — but when anyone gets in a vehicle and hits the Wake Forest streets he/she faces a different situation: Someone on the same street could be drunk as a lord or tipsy from a couple drinks. And that someone could kill you and your family.

That is what our police department is trying to prevent. Thank them whenever you see a person in the black uniform.

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