Sgt Regina Mazzie Collyer receives her pin. (Courtesy of Everett Police Dept./Facebook)
Sgt Regina Mazzie Collyer. She retires after 32 years of service with Everett PD. She worked stints in Patrol Operations, was a long time investigator in the CIU & recently was assigned in a support role working special projects.
FEBRUARY 20: The Grace Food Pantry Everett line on a winter morning. (Photo by Jim Mahoney)
This pandemic has taken 500, 000 lives and made millions sick.
In one year, the world, our world has changed.
The nation forced to close down for a while. All public schools and universities closed down. Bars and major sporting events with large crowds ceased. Crowds of every kind evaporated. All our great cities became ghost towns with thou- sands of small businesses going out of business overnight. Then came a partial reopening followed by a giant spike in COVID-19 cases across the land and here in Everett.
For a long time, masks weren’t required, science wasn’t paid attention to, and what was bad got worse.
The city council has suggested that the city consider lowering the speed limit to 25 MPH.
Our belief is that such a speed limit would be a welcome relief to speeding automobiles that makes getting around this city so dangerous for drivers and for those crossing streets.
There is one caveat, however, to lowering the speed limit with an order.
What is the problem?
The only way to have the driving population lower its tendency to speed up and down our crowded streets and highways is by Draconian enforcement such as the city’s drivers have never experienced.