I was reading a story in the Salt Lake Tribune the other day about how West Valley City has the slowest 911 emergency response time in Salt Lake County. It was around 12 minutes that people have to wait between the time they call 911 and the time it takes police to arrive. That got me thinking. Here in Tooele, I can’t drive across town without seeing at least two or three police vehicles along the way — whether it be Tooele City, Tooele County Sheriff or the Utah Highway Patrol. Then last night my girlfriend and I were pulled over on I-80 while driving home from Wendover by a Tooele County Sheriff for not having a light around our rear license plate. I told him numerous times we had borrowed my mom’s car. Neither of us were drinking. He still insisted on pulling us out of the car and searched both of us and the car. After finding nothing on us or in the car, he told me because I was so cooperative he was going to let me go home. If West Valley is in need of officers that bad, and we have so many that they’ve got nothing better to do than pull people over just to harass them, then why don’t we send some of ours in to help them? I would still feel safe enough driving across town and only seeing one or two of Tooele County’s finest along the way.
Randy Bowen
Tooele