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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Carroll County Times News Local 2016 Citizens Police Academy Coverage

Carroll County Times News Local 2016 Citizens Police Academy Coverage http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2016/05/carroll-county-times-news-local-2016.html

Awesome series and great work by Heather Mongilio.

Hopefully, someone will keep this series mind when the next cycle of Maryland ‑ Delaware ‑ D.C. Press Association awards are being determined ... Just saying




Reporter Heather Mongilio will be attending each class of the Citizens Police Academy to write a first-person series about her experiences as a participant. After each class, she'll write an article about what the 15-student class learned, with input from other students, teachers and herself.


  • Citizens Police Academy Week 5: Facts, details paramount to officers' testimony
CRIME
Citizens Police Academy Week 5: Facts, details paramount to officers' testimony

  • In the past few months covering crime I have found myself sitting in courtrooms often. But for the first time, on Thursday I found myself sitting on the witness stand to testify. This wasn't a real court case. In fact, the defendant, Eric Messerschmidt, was being played by Dave Bollinger, one of...
  • Citizens Police Academy: Week 5
VIDEO
Citizens Police Academy: Week 5

  • In Week 5 of the Citizens Police Academy, Carroll County Times reporter Heather Mongilio and her classmates learn about testifying in court from an officer's standpoint. (Dave Munch and Ulysses Munoz / BSMG)
  • Academy participants get their facts straight in court simulation
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Academy participants get their facts straight in court simulation

  • In Week 5 of the Citizens Police Academy, participants learned about testifying in court from an officer's standpoint, and it presents a whole different kind of pressure.
  • Citizens Police Academy Week 4: Dogs, drugs and 'the unknown' of traffic stops
CRIME
Citizens Police Academy Week 4: Dogs, drugs and 'the unknown' of traffic stops

  • For the second time in about a month, I was staring at gun that was being pointed at me. Time stopped, and I froze. The whole thing happened because of a "simple" traffic stop. I wasn't in any danger. The gun wasn't real, and the person pointing it at me was a police academy recruit. It was another...
  • Citizens Police Academy training program
VIDEOS
Citizens Police Academy training program

  • Amy Baker and Kalena Bartosvak work through a traffic stop scenario during the Citizens Police Academy training program Thursday at the Public Safety Training Center in Westminster.
  • Academy steers toward traffic stops, drug dogs
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Academy steers toward traffic stops, drug dogs

  • The scenario, held as part of the Citizens Police Academy run by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and the Carroll County State's Attorney's Office, focused on traffic stops.
  • Citizens Police Academy Week 3: It's not like TV: A look at crime scenes and investigations
CRIME
Citizens Police Academy Week 3: It's not like TV: A look at crime scenes and investigations

  • Not all police work involves split-second decision-making when it comes to use of force. Some of it involves taking the time to investigate the minute details of a crime scene and collect evidence. Which is why the 14 other members of the class and I, while standing in a classroom at the Public...
  • Citizens Police Academy - Week 3
VIDEO
Citizens Police Academy - Week 3

  • Carroll County Times reporter Heather Mongilio speaks with a member of the forensic services unit, Jessica Bullock, about week three of the Citizens Police Academy. (Dave Munch and Ulysses Munoz / BSMG)
  • Academy participants delve into fake crime scene
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Academy participants delve into fake crime scene

  • The third exercise in the Citizens Police Academy, which is run by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and State's Attorney's Office, focused on taking the time to investigate the minute details of a crime scene and collect evidence.
  • Citizens Police Academy Week 2: To shoot or not to shoot: a look at use of force by officers
CRIME
Citizens Police Academy Week 2: To shoot or not to shoot: a look at use of force by officers

  • Part 2 in a series: Reporter Heather Mongilio will be attending each class of the Citizens Police Academy to write a first-person series about her experiences as a participant. After each class, she'll write an article about what the 15-student class learned, with input from other students, teachers...








  • Citizens Police Academy participants learn about use of force






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Citizens Police Academy participants learn about use of force

  • Over the course of several weeks, we are given a unique chance to see what it's like to be a deputy, from the gear they wear to conducting search warrants to testifying in court. This week was use of force.
  • Citizens Police Academy Week 1: Tactical van, hostage situation






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Citizens Police Academy Week 1: Tactical van, hostage situation

  • More than a dozen people crammed inside a large tactical van owned by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office on Thursday night at the Public Safety Training Facility in Westminster. Of the people inside, though, only one was a deputy with the Sheriff's Office — the rest were civilians. This was the...
  • Sheriff's Office shows tactical gear, armored vehicle







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Sheriff's Office shows tactical gear, armored vehicle

  • More than a dozen people crammed inside a large tactical van owned by the Carroll County Sheriff's Office on Thursday night at the Public Safety Training Facility in Westminster.
  • Sheriff's Office, State's Attorney's Office start Citizens' Police Academy






LOCAL
Sheriff's Office, State's Attorney's Office start Citizens' Police Academy

  • The Carroll County's Sheriff's Office and the State's Attorney's Office have partnered to create the county's first Citizens' Police Academy. The program will begin in April and last approximately eight weeks, according to a news release from the Sheriff's Office. The Citizens' Police Academy is...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

The Police Harassment edition of Community Policing

The Police Harassment edition of Community Policing

http://tinyurl.com/ybflvap http://twitpic.com/u7etr http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/290554431/the-police-harassment-edition-of-community

Click here for a larger image: http://twitpic.com/u7etr or here: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/290554431/the-police-harassment-edition-of-community

(I received this in an e-mail from a reliable source. Yet, nevertheless, I did go about attempting to verify it in anyway. If the e-mail is not real, then it needs to be…)

Shhh...Special Insider Stuff.

Police Harassment

Recently, the Chula Vista Police Department ran an e-mail forum (a question and answer exchange) with the topic being, "Community Policing."

One of the civilian email participants posed the following question, "I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to continually harass people and get away with it?"

From the "other side" (the law enforcement side) Sgt. Bennett, obviously a cop with a sense of humor replied:

"First of all, let me tell you this...it's not easy. In Chula Vista, we average one cop for every 600 people. Only about 60% of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as "patrol") where we do most of our harassing.

The rest are in non-harassing departments that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents. And at any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60% patrollers are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty. So roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 5,000 residents.

When you toss in the commercial business, and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 10,000 or more people a day.

Now, your average ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds long. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and then only three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass. This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to this challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring. What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people which we can realistically harass.

The tools available to us are as follows:

PHONE: ... People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. "My neighbor is beating his wife" is a code phrase used often. This means we'll come out and give somebody some special harassment.

Another popular one is, "There's a guy breaking into a house." The harassment team is then put into action.

CARS: ... We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or no driver's licenses and the like. It's lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light. Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.

RUNNERS: ... Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours.

STATUTES: ... When we don't have PHONES or CARS and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called "Statutes"; Criminal Codes, Motor Vehicle Codes, etc... They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people.

After you read the statute, you can just drive around for awhile until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them. Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, there's this book we have that says that's not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It is a really cool system that we have set up, and it works pretty well.

We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to "harass" some people.

Next time you are in my town, give me the old "single finger wave." That's another one of those codes. It means, "You can harass me. "It's one of our favorites..

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

20080417 Mikulski slams White House on lack of DOJ COPS funding


Mikulski slams White House on lack of DOJ COPS funding


During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on April 16, 2008, Maryland Democrat Senator Barbara Mikulski gave White House budget director Jim Nussle a piece of her mind over the Bush administration’s lack of funding for Department of Justice domestic law enforcement programs… Hat TIP: “Think Progress” and “Amanda.”


20080416 Mikulski slams White House over DOJ COPS funding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uxZHgRSo24



[Postscript: By way of the wonders of technology – the visual and the audio are not well synched. And perhaps that is prophetic – as upset as Senator Mikulski is in this clip. Listen to the words – smile at the out of synch technology…]

Related:
20080528 Bush cuts aid to US cops by David Lightman; 20080416 Mikulski slams White House over DOJ COPS funding; 20080623 What is Community Policing?



Think Progress:
Mikulski Slams White House: ‘Since You’re Pugnacious, Guess What? I’m Going To Be Pretty Pugnacious, Too’

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/17/mikulski-nussle/

By
Amanda on Apr 17th, 2008

The White House has proposed a
$108 billion emergency-spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Frustrated that U.S. taxpayers continue to pay for the wars while domestic needs go unmet, lawmakers have attempted to attach spending for domestic programs to the bill. But Bush has balked, promising to veto any such bills.

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing yesterday, White House budget director Jim Nussle ironically blasted lawmakers for “
sky-is-the-limit mind-set” on the spending bill. One of the most combative moments came when Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) chastised Nussle for his “snarky, scolding, dismissive” responses to the senators and the Bush administration’s attitude toward funding the nation’s law enforcement officers:

Your testimony has been disappointing in both tone and substance. I personally take offense at the snarky, scolding, dismissive way that this testimony represents. And I think it’s inappropriate. […]

This is an ideological commentary, not the testimony of OMB. So since you’re pugnacious, guess what? I’m going to be pretty pugnacious, too, only my pugnaciousness is not going to be directed at the Congress. It’s going to be pugnacious about the people I represent. […]

Number one, let’s go to safety and security. We have funded the surge of Baghdad, but we have not funded the surge of violent crime in Baltimore, Biloxi, or other places. You have zeroed out the COPS program. You have zeroed out the Byrne grant.

Bush has requested $603 million to train Iraqi police. But at the same time, his FY 2009 budget includes a
61 percent cut for state and local law enforcement programs at the Justice Department.

Transcript:

MIKULSKI: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you very much for calling this hearing. I think it’s the essential thing we need to do.

Mr. Nussle, I’ve got to tell you, I’m really disappointed in your testimony. It’s been some time that I have heard the kind of tone that has been expressed by a representative of the Bush administration. Your testimony has been disappointing in both tone and substance.

I personally take offense at the snarky, scolding, dismissive way that this testimony represents. And I think it’s inappropriate.

[…]

This is an ideological commentary, not the testimony of OMB. So since you’re pugnacious, guess what? I’m going to be pretty pugnacious, too, only my pugnaciousness is not going to be directed at the Congress. It’s going to be pugnacious about the people I represent.

So let’s get to it. Pugnacious? You bet. Let’s pick up on what Leahy and Harkin said about the Byrne grant. You want the regular order? I am the regular order. I chair CJS. And what this administration has done here has been outrageous.

Number one, let’s go to safety and security. We have funded the surge of Baghdad, but we have not funded the surge of violent crime in Baltimore, Biloxi, or other places. You have zeroed out the COPS program. You have zeroed out the Byrne grant.

When Shelby and Mikulski tried to do something last year in the regular budget, we were told, Eat $3 billion or face a veto threat. So we foraged and we skimped and we squeezed in to be able to make sure that our bill didn’t get a veto threat, and we came up with $170 million.

You can talk about all your smokestacks and whatever, but you bet there’s smoke. There’s smoke right here and now, and there is frustration from state and local police officers that say they need help. They need help.

And this administration has funded $5 billion over the last couple of years to fund the training of Iraqi police. You bet they need training. But I am telling you, I need the money, Senator Shelby and I need the money to make sure that our local law enforcement, the thin blue line, gets the money that they need to fight violent crime. So I’m going to ask in plain English: If, in fact, we (inaudible) the supplemental, restore the Byrne grants and only the Byrne grants to the needed level of $560 million, will you support it or will we face a veto threat?

NUSSLE: Well, Senator, I can only repeat what the president has said.

MIKULSKI: The president didn’t say anything about this. You think if I went to see the president, he would say, No ?

NUSSLE: Senator, I can only repeat what the president said. And his two priorities that he stated were that the bill stay within the $108.1 billion request and that it support the troops. That’s what he has said on the topic.

Beyond that, I don’t believe he has — I think the senator is correct — not spoken directly to those issues. But I also believe that the regular appropriations process is the time and the place to deal with those challenges. And…

MIKULSKI: But you eliminated it. You eliminated the COPS program, and you eliminated the Byrne grant program in your regular appropriations request.

So you’re saying, Don’t fund it in the supplemental. The president doesn’t request it in the regular order. And now you’re telling me you can’t accept it in the supplemental because the president didn’t talk about it. And when you sent us the CJS president’s request, it’s not in there for ‘09.

[…]

Mr. Chairman, with your cooperation, I hope that we do and fund it. If we’re talking about a safe and secure America, I want to make sure the streets of the United States of America are safe and secure. And I will work on a bipartisan basis to do it.

BYRD: Senator Murray?

MURRAY: Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for having this hearing.

And, Mr. Nussle, I share the anger, frustration, I guess pugnaciousness of the senator from Maryland. It is extremely disturbing to me that we are getting an emergency supplemental request for Iraq and Afghanistan five-and-a-half years into this war that’s being paid for off the books.

Public Safety Law and Order DOJ Federal Domestic Grants

People Maryland Mikulski – US Sen. Barbara Mikulski
20080417 Mikulski slams White House on lack of DOJ COPS funding

20080528 Bush cuts aid to US cops by David Lightman

Bush cuts aid to US cops by David Lightman

MORE BUDGETED FOR IRAQI POLICE

Posted By David Lightman on Wed, May. 28, 2008, DLIGHTMAN@MCCLATCHYDC.COM

WASHINGTON -- At the same time the Bush administration has been pushing for deep cuts in a popular crime-fighting program for states and cities, the White House has been fighting for approval of $603 million for the Iraqi police.

The White House earlier this year proposed slashing the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, which helps local law enforcement officials deal with violent crime and serious offenders, to $200 million in the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

In 2002, the year before the Iraq war, the program received $900 million.

The administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress are headed for a showdown over the domestic money, probably next month. When the Senate last week passed the emergency Iraq war funding bill, it allotted an immediate $490 million for the domestic grants while keeping the Iraqi police funds intact.

[…]

"State and local policing should be left to state and local governments. I don't see any advantage to federal meddling," said Chris Edwards, an analyst at Washington's Cato Institute.

Cato opposed the Iraq war, but Edwards said the issue of Iraq's police funding "is a foreign policy question, and foreign policy should depend on things other than economics."

But Travis Sharp, military policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, disagreed.

"There are tradeoffs in the federal government, and one of the arguments a lot of people make is that money spent in Iraq is not spent here," he said.

Those angry with the administration have a powerful ally in Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who chairs the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science that oversees the Justice Department.

"While President Bush requests millions of dollars for the war in Iraq, his domestic spending continues to shortchange our safety at home," she said.

When Budget Director Jim Nussle testified before her subcommittee last month, neither side showed any desire to compromise.

Mikulski called Bush's policies "outrageous" and labeled Nussle's testimony "snarky, scolding, dismissive."

"We have funded the surge of Baghdad, but we have not funded the surge of violent crime in Baltimore, Biloxi or other places," the senator said. She then asked Nussle if Bush would support restoring most of the Byrne grant.

[…]

The Iraq police funds are listed as money due to Iraq's Ministry of Interior. Also included in "new obligations" to the "Iraq Security Forces Fund" are $603 million for the Interior Ministry, $744 million for the Ministry of Defense and $153 million for "quick response."

The Congressional Research Service estimates that since the war began, the United States has spent about $20.75 billion to train and equip Iraqi soldiers and police officers.

Read the entire article here:
Bush cutting aid to U.S. cops

20080528 Bush cuts aid to US cops by David Lightman