Coronavirus puts brakes on traffic issues

As Marion residents continue to emerge from the pandemic lockdown, behaviors will change and policing will certainly pick up, but for the past three months criminal activity and other problems like car crashes have predictably been way down.

Marion Police Chief Ray O’Neal said it has been the “quietest three months” in his 21-year career on the police force.

His officers wrote no traffic tickets during the month of April. That ties a record, at the very least.

“I don’t ever remember us having a month where .... for the rest of this article, see this week's printed edition of The Crittenden Press.

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