Hack journalism by the Toledo Blade - February 2015

Last fall, a Woodville police officer ruthlessly shot a dog that caused no harm.

So the Blade is now attacking the town by writing multiple stories about Woodville being a speed trap, and in each activist story, the Blade mentions the dog being shot.

Downtown Woodville, Ohio has been well-known as a speed trap for many years. Twenty years ago, I got a speeding ticket in downtown Woodville, late at night on a Sunday night while returning home from a Cleveland Browns playoff game loss.

my Feb 15, 2015 tt comment:

From Burris's pathetic rant:

... a local policeman shot a dog named Moses.

From yesterday's Blade op-ed titled Ticket trap

... the officer shot the dog ...

JRB loves dogs. That's great. But this crusade against Woodville is demented journalism at best.

More from yesterday's op-ed:

Woodville officials are using speeding tickets primarily to raise revenue ...

As others have mentioned, that's what Toledo is doing with its gotcha traffic enforcement cameras. It has never been about safety with the cameras. The cameras provide a source of revenue that's budgeted by the city. Toledo doesn't want safe drivers. The city would have a budget hole to fill if everyone started driving safely in the camera areas.

The Village of Woodville has abused northwest Ohio motorists for far too long ...

So has Toledo with its cameras and especially with its f*cked up roads.

If the Blade truly wanted to help, it should focus all its energies on a Toledo issue. One single issue for 2015.

Fix the f*cking roads

You will do better in Toledo if the f*cking roads are fixed.

More from yesterday's op-ed:

If a boycott of the town’s businesses is needed finally to get the attention of its public officials, so be it.

It's definitely loony bin time for the Blade editorial board. A boycott? Who participates in the boycott campaign? Elmore residents?

What's lost on Burris and the other Blade writers who are engaged in this dog-shit journalism is how everyone else is laughing in mocking fashion at the Blade.

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Highlighted excerpts from a Nov 29, 2014 Toledo Blade op-ed titled Maintain traffic cameras

Since 2002, the first full year these cameras were used in Toledo, statistics show that they have made streets safer and reduced traffic violations and deaths.

Then I claim that the Woodville police are making their streets safer by enforcing their posted speed limits.

Though unpopular among lawbreaking motorists, the cameras — with a few notorious exceptions, in which they have been used as revenue-raising devices [Toledo] — are valuable law-enforcement tools.

Getting busted for speeding in Woodville is also unpopular among lawbreaking motorists. I know because I got busted for speeding through downtown Woodville late on a Sunday night 20 years ago. I didn't pay attention to the multiple, step-down speed limits when entering Woodville.

So based upon my first-hand experience, I claim that the Woodville police are a valuable law-enforcement tool.

It seems like this hack, anti-Woodville journalism by the Blade may endanger the lives of Woodville residents if the police are prohibited from keeping their downtown safe. Is the Blade endorsing the idea of dangerous, lawbreaking driving in Woodville?

Toledo politicians have admitted in the past that the city is dependent upon the revenue generated by traffic enforcement cameras, which obviously means that the cameras are not meant for safety.

People who don't mind Toledo's revenue-generating cams will suggest things like, "Don't speed or don't run a red light if you don't want to be caught." Got it. Obey the laws.

Then ditto for downtown Woodville. Signs are posted. If motorists don't want to receive a speeding ticket, then they should pay attention to the signs and don't speed. Obey the law. Simple.

The end of red-light and speed-enforcement cameras would endanger the safety and lives of Ohio motorists. The cameras reduce the number of accidents and fatalities at the intersections where they are placed. This important public safety tool should not be eliminated.

I'll claim that the same thing applies to Woodville's police department. They are concerned about the safety of the town's citizens. If ticketing excessively can save just one life, then it's a great program.

To play along with the absurd thinking of the Blade editorial board, if you oppose the actions of the Woodville police, then you support death to Woodville citizens. You endorse dangerous driving that could plaster kids who are crossing the street on their way to school. Shame on you. You mutilator.

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