In regard to the residents who are concerned about the proposed purchase of the BearCat ATV [“Southampton Chief Defends Decision To Purchase New Armored Vehicle for Town Police,” 27east.com, October 15]: What exactly are you saying to the men and women of the Southampton Town Police Department? Do we not value their lives?
Schools, churches and synagogues have all had mass shootings in the past few months. We have all of those assembly buildings in our town.
How will this department come to the aid of a wounded officer who is pinned down by gunfire during a mass shooting incident? Without protective vehicles you are condemning more officers to expose themselves in order to render aid to the injured officer.
To call these vehicles too militaristic for our town in light of current events is a grave mischaracterization of the facts.
Opposition to this request during this troubled time in our country is simply virtue signaling and should be rightly called out.
John Di Rienzo
Hampton Bays
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