RE: ‘Dear police: Train elsewhere’ (letters, Nov. 25):

Our neighborhood was not chosen as the site for the Federal Way Police Department tactical training exercise, so I cannot comment on the loudness of the noise level. I’m sure it did get to be “old” over the course of two days, but so did the weeklong street repaving in front of our house last year.

However, if the activities concluded by “almost 9 p.m.,” I am pondering how disruptive such activities really were for anyone other than day sleepers/night workers (which would be unfortunate, but part of life in a city).

How many school teachers in Federal Way would love to know that their students actually had a habit of being put to bed before 9 p.m., thus getting enough sleep to be good students in the morning? Seriously, how many persons actually had sleep disruption because of legitimate activities that ceased just prior to 9 p.m.?

An educated guess says that picking an abandoned house, in a real neighborhood, was a way of heightening the officers’ skill level for dealing with potential home invasion scenarios.

Clearly recognizing the need for such “training” (as opposed to “play”), I am extremely thankful that our police department continues to enhance its skills in a world that increasingly sees random violence and planned wickedness.

Chief, I appreciate you and your team and the way you willingly put your lives on the line daily for the citizens of Federal Way. While we have no abandoned homes on our street in Crown Point, I (working from home mom) would uncomplainingly put up with two days of inconvenience so that our officers would have the best skills to apply should I, or another citizen, frighteningly be in need of tactical police services at home.

And I’d undoubtedly serve y’all warm cookies on your breaks!

Harriet Cook, Federal Way