Who dropped the call?

Who dropped the call?

EDITOR:

I would like to vent a little about the Youngstown Police Department. My mother-in-law attends church at the Hungarian Presbyterian Church on Mahoning Avenue in Youngstown. On a recent Sunday afternoon she and some fellow lady church members stayed after church for a meeting. During this meeting, a man came into the church claiming that he “belonged there” when asked his purpose for being there. The ladies proceeded to tell him that church was over and he would have to come back next Sunday and gave him the times for services. He proceeded to walk around the church and became more irritated as he went.

One of the ladies having a cell phone called 911 because they were all very uncomfortable with the situation. The 911 caller said that the police would be on their way. They never came. All the ladies could do is sit in fear and wait for this man to leave, which he eventually did after several minutes of these ladies being afraid.

As soon as he left and they were sure that he wasn’t about, they all fled to their cars in fear that he may come back. Can anyone tell me why the police never came? Is it not important to them, because that is the way it seems to me. This man could have done something terrible to these ladies and no one would have known until it was far too late.

I realize with cut backs that there are fewer police to respond, but come on. We should not have to live in fear, much less be fearful in church.

BUFFY BALOGH

Austintown