By Jen Hill
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RANGELY | The Rangely Town Council held their first meeting of the new year on Tuesday.
Police Chief Vince Wilczek updated the council on happenings in the police department including upcoming trainings, a new Facebook page and a new school program. Starting this year officers will be asked to spend one day a week eating lunch at the elementary school. Wilczek also informed the council that DUI’s were down 20 percent…
Rangely Town Council holds first meeting of 2017
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Dear Officer Wilczek,
Your role as an officer of the law is to protect and serve. This does not give you the right to play God and decide who lives and dies. I think it is a disgrace to law enforcement across the country by the insensitive remarks you made about “drunks” and “addicts.” I believe there are a large number of officers across this country who have family members that deal with alcoholism and addiction and would find your remarks insensitive and appalling. You should be ashamed of your remarks and you do not deserve to hold the title of chief, let alone an officer of the law.
By your remarks, it shows me that you have not taken the time to do research as to how many alcoholics and addicts actually recover and live a productive life, like myself after becoming sober. Each addict is different in their own addiction, something you are failing to recognize. That just tells me you are lazy and selfish. I used to go to college in this town. During my time in this town, I did my fair share of partying just like any other college student. I was predisposed to alcoholism, as it runs on both sides of my family, something I couldn’t comprehend at the age of 19. For the course of 14 years I struggled to come to grips with my addiction to alcohol and prescription pain pills. I became addicted to pain pills after a back injury trying out for the local college basketball team at Colorado Northwestern Community College in Rangely, Colorado.
Once I came to grips and realized I had a problem 14 years later, I went back and dug deep inside myself trying to figure out why I used. I had a lot of issues that I suppressed and I dealt with them by using. If I would have overdosed in your town, which I never did, the fact that you would not administer a drug that could reverse the overdose, is inhumane in my opinion.
Since I have become sober from alcohol and prescription pills, I finished my AA(something I did not do in your town) and went onto a 4 year college. I also have a job with the city that I live in, so now I am on your level and you don’t deserve to be on my level. I am an Assistant Athletic Coordinator in the Parks and Recreation Department, and I also coach youth sports. I use my past experiences to help today’s youth go down the right road and not make the same mistakes I did.
You sir, need to take a long look at yourself in the mirror about you remarks and rethink them. You do not deserve to hold any type of public office, let alone, chief of police.
What your remarks tell me, is that you are a selfish human being. Maybe it’s time you get off your butt, and try and find a solution instead of giving up on someone and letting them die. Each person in this world is capable of changing, including alcoholics and addicts, just like myself. I could not imagine sitting and watching someone die of a drug overdose knowing that I have the means to save them.
How can you?
I had written a comment about Chief Wiczek’s comment and am wondering why it has not been posted.