Planning a trip to Savannah? Be careful.

This letter-to-the-editor appeared in today's Savannah Morning News. Crime in Savannah is out of hand What a shame our beautiful city is under siege by thugs ruining our daily lives and threatening our tourist trade. What makes it even worse is the fact that these thugs are children. They are anywhere from 14 to 20 years old and don't care who they kill or hurt in the process of their crimes. Banks being robbed on a weekly basis, two older women tourists mugged on their way back to their hotel, a drive-by shooting at a club on Bay Street (in the heart of the tourist district), a carjacking at the local post office, and then the next day at a job fair downtown at the Civic Center. a woman was accosted. If it had not of been for a good Samaritan stepping in, that woman would probably be dead now. Then most recently, two street robberies on Abercorn resulting in a chase, crash and search through our once very quiet neighborhood. Home invasions, broad daylight robberies; and all by young people under the age of 25. When will it stop? Gun shots ring out every other day or so in the city; children dying and the lucky ones are having to hide in their houses; unable to go out in their very own back yard for fear of being shot by a stray bullet. Something needs to be done and the police cannot do it alone; we have to pull together as a community and stop these city "terrorists." They are going to ultimately take away the very soul of our city. SUSAN JIOSA Savannah

I read the Savannah Morning News on line every day. Unfortunately, she is telling like it is.