.jpg)
OCEAN CITY – Mayor Rick Meehan publically responded to concerns over ongoing outbursts of crime in Ocean City this summer at this week’s Mayor and Council meeting and was subsequently chastised for not taking a leading role in crafting a solution.Throughout the course of this summer, Ocean City has been in the negative spotlight, including bank robberies, a beach brawl and a Boardwalk gang-related stabbing to a tragic hit-and run involving a child, a shooting and other off-Boardwalk stabbings.
Ocean City resident Rachel Fiorello, who has written several letters to the mayor, came before the council on Monday evening to drive a response from Meehan.
More
I suggest SGCA be formed: SHOT-GUN-COMMUNITY-ASSOCIATIONS who patrolled the beach with rubber balls loaded in shotgun mags...Screw around? KABOOOOM!
ReplyDeleteIt is disgusting. An OC resident for 30 years, I still go to the boards often enough to see this: the beach is nowhere near as crowded as in recent years, the boardwalk also seems to have much less traffic in the daytime, and at night the crowd is overwhelmingly thug.
ReplyDeleteThe mayor has a long record in OC, in his current position and many years on the city council. He spearheaded the overdevelopment in OC in recent years when nothing else mattered but building more condominiums. He is also a career realtor, by the way, as is his long-time girlfriend. "Build more condos" ought to be his middle name. He's not the only one, but he was the main one. He could retire but he is hanging around for one more golden era of frenzied buying and piles of commissions for him and his gal. Meanwhile, other realtors, who control just about everything in OC, trumpet a lot of false information to the rest of us about how great everything is here. Baloney. The current council is like Annapolis on a smaller scale, desperately trying to get every single dollar they can anywhere they can find it, but cut spending? No chance.
Meanwhile, they are ignoring the boardwalk problem. When I'm down there at night, it's easy to see what's going on, but if you look past the obvious you will see the families and couples who see it too and guess what, Rick? They aren't coming back. All this talk about we're going to do something in the future, blah blah blah...you have already lost countless tourists and you are losing more every week.
The talk around people in OC is you're lucky if your business is only down 20%. Now the last few years have been steadily declining, and this year you're 20% behind that? Oh great. Keep bringing those thugs into town, Rick. Keep those rap concerts coming. More inner-city advertising ought to help. This is your legacy, Mr. Mayor and city council members. This town is being taken over by thugs and you're not doing one darn thing about it.
I agree 11:55. One thing for certain that would immediately stop the criminal element from even stepping foot in OC is to crack down on what attracts them here.
ReplyDelete----and before anyone says it's the women, I'll nip that in the bud right away. All beaches have scantily clad women but don't have this problem.----
This is what they did in Times Square. OC's problem is there is no Rudy Giuliani.
Any establishment that is intent on having these DJ's and rap concerts should be cracked down on. Boardwalk shops selling faux merchandise should be reported. (I once read about a flea market complete with valet parking in an exclusive area in FL was having trouble w/thugs and as soon as they banned vendors selling faux Gucci, Rolex, etc. the thugs stopped coming.)
I'm afraid though OC is too far gone. As above mentioned it's been so overbuilt w/condos it is nothing more than then a cement city. All the quaintness is gone and it looks like inner city projects.
People shut up! Lets get to the important questions, now, how is busy doing at the turtle, fagers, mackies, secrets, thrashers, the publics golf courses,and all of the real estate buds? $$$ is ok, yes!
ReplyDeleteNothing to see here....
11:55 The reason nothing is being done is because the mayor and his friends want they money that these kind bring to town. They rent their crappy rooms, eat at the crappy restaurants and buy a disgusting t shirt from one of the mayors friend's boardwalk shops. Then finally they either get drunk or fight resulting in an arrest . Then our court system in ocean city reaps the benefit of court fines, lawyer fees, salaries related to the jobs that have to deal with this nonsense etc..... It is all about the money and the power.
ReplyDeleteHe is a realtor and made a ton of money representing developers in the mid 2000's. He represented the developer of mariners watch, sailors watch, Bella Vista & Coral Seas. He never put his name on the sign but he was the listing agent. Hundreds of units, hundreds of thousands in commissions. The developer of those projects is also the owner of the Sunsations stores. Talk about a conflict of interest.
ReplyDelete