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Blue Knights Utah IV/ Summer Quarter 2010


all of my service. But, when you render service without the pres- sure, without the stress, without the competition, it feels soooo much better, as it is with the Blue Knights. If you have served, you know what I mean. If you’ve never served, you should.


Whatever you hold closest to


you, I hope you gathered it around you over this holiday sea- son. I send my gratitude and my support to each of you. I trust we will continue to enjoy many more road miles and experiences together in the events yet to come.


Trivia Question The Answer to last quarter’s


The The


Trivia Question is:


The Red Cliffs


just west of


Can you identify this quarter’s land- mark and give its location?


Hanna, Utah


HUMOR Police


Harassment Recently, the Chula Vista Po-


lice 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 con- tinually 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 ‘on patrol’) where we do most of our harassing. The rest are in non-harassing


departments


where they are not allowed to make contact with the day to day innocents. And at any given mo- ment, only one-fifth of that 60% are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty.


So roughly, one cop is respon-


sible for harassing about 5,000 residents. When you toss in the commercial, business, and tour- ist 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 fol- lows:”


“PHONES: People will call us


up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment. ‘My neigh- bor is beating his wife’ is a code phrase used often. This means we'll come out and give some- body some special harassment. Another popular one is, ‘There's a guy breaking into a house.’ The harassment team is then put in- to 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 run- ning a red light. Sometimes you


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