Disturbing News From the Neighborhood

This particular story comes from right in the neighborhood, and may be related to this story. News4 Colorado has been reporting on one high school student's personal investigation into whether the military would recruit him without a high school diploma and with an admitted drug problem. This honor student's experience with a couple of local recruiters is disturbing.

From the pages of the Rocky Mountain News, comes the story of shots being fired into another recruiting office in Westminster. News4 Colorado does not seem to have a lot of interest in this story, but Westminster Police do believe there is a connection.

For my part, I would hope that News4 would take more interest in the violent crime in Westminster even if their story might have inspired the crime. Afterall, in the case of our honor student, he went looking for trouble and found it, but this type of malfeasance is correctable. On the otherhand, I have driven past this recruiting center more than one hundred times. It is next to a karate school and a LePeeps restaurant. Many innocent people could have been affected by this crime.