The guidelines also specified the unit's service area. There are many successful crime watch units in Citrus County. With pride, the residents of Beverly Hills can applaud their unit as the first and most emulated. Recently it was suggested that the Beverly Hills Surveillance Unit amend its guidelines and charter so the unit can be assigned to other areas of Citrus County. In my opinion, this would dilute the successful efforts the dedicated volunteers contribute to Beverly Hills and, therefore, would not be productive.
All residents deserve the benefits that a surveillance crime watch unit provides.
Should a community wish to have these benefits, they need to organize and staff one just like Beverly Hills and other communities have. I followed the judges to the podium and spoke to the issue of a new judicial facility on behalf of the Citrus County Libertarian Party. The statement, while potent, was accurate because not a single datum of proof has been given by the commission or anyone else to support the nearly unanimous assertion that building a judicial facility outside of downtown Inverness would destroy Inverness. Brief, but in relation to the time allowed for me to speak, their time outside the room denied me the opportunity to suitably present the Libertarian Party's alternatives to the whole board. Not one of them, in public or private, defended an American's right to an opinion freely stated.