Dear Editor:

Re: What has happened to us?, Letters to the editor, The Record, July 23.

I agree with Mr. Hewitt regarding the unsavoury element of criminal and drug infiltration in our communities and country. Safety, be it in our streets, homes, businesses or anywhere, is of the utmost importance in today's society.

The account in Mr. Hewitt's letter of police and emergency services not having the authority to take a drug-induced, out-of-control, ill person off the street to hospital because she declined to go is unbelievably heart-sickening.

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