Moorhead needs a new police substation. With the glad tidings of a new “temporary” homeless shelter at 1015 30th Ave. S, the never-ending calls “for assistance” in the nine to 2100 blocks of 18th, 19th and 20th Streets South and the ever-popular body mutilations and shootings occurring east of the Courtyard by Marriot, statistics easily illustrate the need for a closer base of operations for first responders.
Maybe we could convince Fargo to contribute to the construction of a “temporary” 24-hour response center “along that bus route” to equitably facilitate the emergency runs that will be needed by those individuals now destined to be migrated from North Dakota to a state that has no fewer than 14 agencies and incorporated resources for the homeless. Those rides to jail will go much more quickly and central dispatch will have a higher turnaround rate on the police squads, ambulances and fire companies being dispatched to south Moorhead.
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To quote the voice from "Field of Dreams," “If you build it, they will come.” Apparently, we are building it. And they are coming.
Robert Seigel lives in Moorhead.
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