LETTER: POLICE CHIEF IS PRAISED FOR KEEPING ABREAST OF ANTICRIME METHODS

To the editor:

In an age of drugs and crime, most of us don't realize how fortunate we are to have Capt. Howard "Butch" Boyd heading our police department and minimizing our crime.

Because I've been robbed, I'm highly interested in crime prevention, so I read many articles on that subject. Recently I read about one chief of police in a moderate-sized city several times larger than Cape Girardeau who invented and used some different and highly successful things to suppress many types of crime.

So I took the article to Capt. Boyd and amazingly found he knew all about these things of the successful chief, for he had attended a study session held by this chief and he already knew everything that this man used to suppress crime.

Also, Capt. Boyd regularly attends other such meetings that he believes will furnish him with proven ways to suppress crime in a town the size of Cape Girardeau. He can't, and needn't, use things that go far beyond his limited budget, but anything that will help us citizens of Cape Girardeau.

Charles E. Stiver

Cape Girardeau