Raccoon Times (CotD)

Raccoon Times, August 26, 1998


 * '''MAYOR ANNOUNCES 'KEEP CITY SAFE' PLAN


 * RACCOON CITY-On the front steps of City Hall, Mayor Harris
 * announced in a press conference yesterday afternoon that the City
 * Council will be hiring at least ten new police officers to join the
 * Raccoon police, in reponse to the continued suspension of the
 * Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.), in effect since the
 * brutal murders that plagued Raccoon earlier this summer. Joined
 * by Police Chief Brian Irons and all of Raccoons Council members,
 * Harris assured the gathered citizens and reporters that Raccoon
 * City will once again be a safe community in which to live and
 * work, and that the investigation into the eleven "cannibal"
 * murders and three fatal wild-animal attacks is far from closed.
 * "Just because no one else has been attacked in the last month
 * doesn't mean that the elected officials of this city can relax,"
 * Harris stated. "The good people of Raccoon deserve to have
 * confidence in their police force and to be secure in the knowlege
 * that their political representatives are doing everything possible to
 * ensure each citizen's safety. As many of you know, the
 * S.T.A.R.S.'s suspension is likely to become permanent. That unit's
 * gross mishandling of the murder investigations and its subsequent
 * disappearance from Raccoon City suggests that they don't care
 * about this community - but I want to assure you that we care,
 * that myself, Chief Irons, and the men and women you see here
 * today want nothing more than to make Raccoon a place in which
 * our children can grow up without fear."
 * Harris went on to detail a three-point plan designed to bolster
 * public confidence and keep Raccoon citizens from falling victim to
 * violence. Besides hiring between ten and twelve new police
 * officers, the citywide curfew will remain in place through at least
 * September, and Chief Irons will personally head a task force of
 * several officers and detectives to continue searching for the killers
 * who took the lives of eleven people between May and July of this
 * year...