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15 Feb ’12
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would your department do something like this? do you think this is a good idea?
DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. - Inspired to bolster school security by the December shooting inside Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, deputies in Douglas County are voluntarily doing their paperwork in parking lots outside their district's 40-plus elementary schools. The result, they say, is more security without additional resources.
"Instead of pulling under a bridge or to a random parking lot to do their reports, they just find the local school nearest them and do it there," said Liz Fagan, Superintendent for Douglas County Schools. "We love that."
As an added incentive, the school district invites Douglas County Sheriff's deputies into their schools for free lunch. The district picks up the $2.75 tab.
There's also an added convenience for the deputies as they type up their reports.
"The school district has opened up their Wi-Fi," said Lieutenant Brian Murphy with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office. "Now we have access so we can upload and download our reports."
This innovative plan is getting good marks from parents.
"As they're trying to figure out the long-term, I think it's great they've come up with something in the short-term to kind of get us through and make us more comfortable," said pleased parent Elean Gersack.
The idea was first discussed on the Monday after the shooting in Newtown, when the school district met with Douglas County law enforcement.
"We learned something as a result of horrific tragedy," said Superintendent Fagan. "We have a commitment to focus on our school district and our kids to do what's right for them"
As for the students, they're learning cops are their friends.
"I love it," said Lieutenant Murphy. "As a parent, it makes sense."
Superintendent Fagan says this is just one step in the process of finding new ways to protect her school kids.
1 Nov ’12
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Using common sense to overcome beurocratic red tape, just might be on to something.
15 Feb ’12
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when I use to work fast food back in the 90's I would buy the local PD dinner when I was closing and would get a police escort when going to the night deposit, can't do that anymore, but I like that the school is charging the dept for a cheap lunch, makes sense to me
8 Mar ’12
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They used to but w/out the lunch part. Guys would finish paperwork (hand written offense reports....not the incident reports you young mdt using whipper snappers).
The disadvantage was that every whining douche bag would not see the point of what was going on and would pester the snot out of you or occasionally would call downtown to report that the officer was goofing off.
Before pizza companies stopped delivering in the ghetto we would hang around when we could to keep them from getting robbed or car jacked. Stopped enough of it so that some places would give you a discount.
And the monkey presses the button.
3 Jun ’12
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I was state parks le, so slightly (lol)for different experience but I would do this type of thing when I could. Set up by the docks to eat my lunch or write, try to have a strong presence near the gates in the evening where you usually had a lone hs/college kid working alone with alot of cash at that point. My favoriteslunch were isolated, little usedchance acceas points wherehad i couldhave catch/discourage wildlife violations. Basically anywhere that we historically had problems.
And yes, several times complaints were made that "that ranger" was just sitting in his truck doing nothing.
Had a girlfriend that worked nights in a 7/11 type store one year between fire seasons. She made it known that any one with a badge was welcome to come &I eat as many hot dogs as they wanted &I drink as much free coffee or pop as they could handle. She said she had somebody in there hourly all night long & never had any problems. Didn't hurt to be a hot 22 year old, id have to figure :).
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