Topic: Sneak Peek Sheriff's View (Read 58507 times)

Eeyore · « **Reply #300 on:** November 25, 2007, 10:24:25 PM »

I agree and when an officer has a situation serious enough to call for back up, taking time to put on the appropriate uniform could cause said officer on the scene injury, death, or loss of control of situation.
I'd rather have help in jammies and a vest than late help.
I say Thank you very much for a job well done, and for being willing to hop out of bed at any hour of the day or night and run to help out. I'm also glad you did not have to go down town to get the squad car so you could help out.

Kristi · « **Reply #301 on:** November 25, 2007, 10:38:57 PM »

JB you are just no fun> I like the idea of purple uniforms also... lmao...

listening · « **Reply #302 on:** November 26, 2007, 05:18:29 AM »

GOOD LORD!!! I would say that if her help was needed again this officer wouldnt hesitate to not put on what some may call appropriate clothing to assist on such a call! She wasnt in a neglige! And if she did go out in her PJ"S again...Screw the ones who have a comment about it! Plain and simple! Maybe the people who are complaining need to take a step back and say a prayer for this individual and themselves! God forbid if the situation may involve them the next time and she has to put on addiquate clothing! I sure hope they make it if she does, if they dont stupid idots for complaining in the first place!
You reep what you sow!
Great Job Well Done! and if it was my call and she showed up in her PJ's I would be hugging her! That would have shown me just how much she cared!!

Quote from: Valor7 on November 25, 2007, 07:31:14 PM

Before this gets completely out of hand please remember the "chase" was on her road moving closer to her house and then changed to just went by her house and the stop will be made PDQ. Speed was of the essence at the time. I do not expect her out in the PJ's again.
JB

Valor7 · « **Reply #303 on:** November 26, 2007, 06:38:23 AM »

Quote from: Valor7 on November 25, 2007, 07:31:14 PM

Before this gets completely out of hand please remember the "chase" was on her road moving closer to her house and then changed to just went by her house and the stop will be made PDQ. Speed was of the essence at the time. I do not expect her out in the PJ's again.
JB

I said I do not expect her out in the PJ's again. But I also did not chew her out for doing so I happen to agree that time was the factor.
Maybe I did give her a "little" going over on the PJ's, at least when I could stop laughing.
JB

listening · « **Reply #304 on:** November 26, 2007, 08:27:17 AM »

I didnt intend that toward you JB just the ones that complained about it.
I would have laughed too LOL but it was still great she done this.

Quote from: Valor7 on November 26, 2007, 06:38:23 AM

I said I do not expect her out in the PJ's again. But I also did not chew her out for doing so I happen to agree that time was the factor.
Maybe I did give her a "little" going over on the PJ's, at least when I could stop laughing.
JB

Lepard LLC · « **Reply #305 on:** December 02, 2007, 10:27:44 AM »

The Sheriff’s View #49, Week of Dec. 3 to 7, 2007

Welcome aboard for one more visit with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department. It seems hard to believe that December is already here but we cannot deny that fact. It also seems hard to believe that year three of a four year term of election is almost over and that next year will be re-run year. I suspect that the next election will get very interesting when that time arrives.

I will start this column with the calls for service/ case number/ jobs we did number for this week. And the new high number is 8,510. Last week it was 8,360, and that was only an increase of 150. If that low trend continues and if I did my math right that means we may just barely break the 9,000 mark for the year. We do not need the growth in this area.

I have very good news to report for this week. I have received a check for $750.00 from the Order of the Rainbow Girls, Masonic Lodge, Pulaski County Assembly #78. The young ladies had requested that the money be spent on a repeater radio for one of the cars. I would like to thank the young ladies for their kind gift. Since I have now reported this donation it means that this will give me a chance to update everyone on the car repeater radio program.

We ran into a problem that involved a technical decision that needed to be made. In talking with another radio service I learned that we could buy an extender that would give us a two-mile radius instead of the current seven hundred yards. That would be a big boost in range but the cost was $1400.00 per radio instead of the $750.00. The question we had to decide, in simple terms, was the increase in price along with the range boosts something that we had to have? After a long hard look at the program I decided that 97% of the time the Deputy would be within the 700-yard radius of his/her vehicle. Thus if we purchased the lower cost units I could get a unit into every road car much faster. Since we are working on this program using money that we receive as gifts that was a critical point. At this time we have three cars with the new repeaters installed and we are making appointments for two more cars next week. That will leave seven more cars that we need to equip.

We did run into a problem with the program. We had all of our hand held units programmed to operate off the new repeater units last year in anticipation of the new repeaters. Somehow we ended up with the wrong frequency’s to make the system work. We have already contacted the vendor and this problem should be cured next week.

I would like to report that one of the new “toys” that we purchased, the Alternate Light Source unit, has arrived in house. And after sitting idle for only four days our Detective Division got to use the unit at a reported sexual assault crime scene. The ALS unit was a success and DNA material that we probably would not have found the old fashioned way was recovered. I referred to the unit as a “toy” because there has been some recent criticism that I am always buying expensive “toys” that we do not need. In this case the unit was needed and the CLERF fund paid for this forensic tool. I think it was a very smart move on our part but I also know that the election year bull has already started.

This week was the Christmas Parade week. On Saturday I attended the Laquey and Crocker Christmas Parades. This is probably one of the best jobs I get to handle. You get to ride in the parade, wave at people and see a lot of folks you have not seen for some time. Every once in a while you also miss with a candy toss and bean some poor young child in the head. Usually they shake their head once or twice and then they dive to the ground to capture the offending candy missile. I must assume that revenge follows and the candy missile meets an early demise. But yes the look on the kids face as a handful of candy suddenly lands at their feet makes for a real neat job for the day.

The weather for the Laquey and Crocker Parade was not very good but it looks like the Waynesville Parade on Sunday will be much better. Since the Waynesville High School football champs are going to be in the parade I look for a larger than usual crowd. And if by chance I bean your child in the head with a bad candy throw I would like to apologize in advance.

During this past week we seized 21 pounds of marijuana in a special criminal operation and I completed a press release on this operation. I had a reader ask why did I release that information? In this case the news that there was 21 less pounds for sale was good news and besides the people involved have already had DEA and Sheriff’s badges held up in front of their faces. Since they are well aware of the fact that they have lost their expensive imported material I did not see a need for the secret to remain hidden from everyone else.

I seem to have reached the word count for this week. I would like to remind everyone that the weather could play a big role in safe driving in the near future so please pay attention and drive SLOW. I would also like to ask you to stay legal in your actions since we do not need your business in the jail. We are full but the lights are on.

Lepard LLC · « **Reply #306 on:** December 09, 2007, 09:49:47 AM »

The Sheriff’s View #50, Week of Dec. 10 to 14, 2007

Welcome aboard for a wet cold week in Pulaski County. Maybe we will have a week with a nice coat of ice. I sure do hope the weather guy is wrong, wrong, and very wrong, on this forecast. But if he is right, then please drive very careful and very slow on the highways in Pulaski County.

I would like to start this column with the November dispatch numbers. And once again dispatch had a good month. In the telephone call list they had 4,409 calls. That makes a grand total so far this year of 58,538. At the front window they had 1,188 visitors, the total for the year stands at 18,366. They had 37 animal calls, total 369. They had 31 domestics, total of 77, and they had 5 warrant arrests for the month and 36 for the year. Please remember we have only been tracking the animal calls, domestics and warrant arrests for a few months. Any way you want to look at this picture the dispatch section has been busy.

The case number count for the week stands at 8,643. And that is the new high record for the department. And that will stand at least until next week. Once again I would like to remind everyone that Pulaski County has 550 square miles with 51,579 people and the two or three Deputies we have on duty at any given time have responded to 8,643 possible cases so far this year.

I just got back from the Richland Christmas Parade. It was wet, cold, and muddy. But there were a lot of smiles in the crowd and a lot of Christmas spirit in the air. I think my candy throwing aim is improving. I did not bean a single child in the head today. I did nail two REACT members with direct hits but I must confess those hits were not accidents. Merry Christmas guys!

We had an unexpected event last week. It seems that we have hit the storage limit on our files in Crimestar. As the computer geeks explained it the version of Crimestar that we bought in 2004 had a limit on storage. They said to look at it as though we had a single file cabinet with four drawers in one room for storage. That file cabinet is now full and the system has crashed. What we need is the expanded system, which would be like an entire room full of file cabinets. And joy to the world we only need $1200.00 to make this happen. Well the timing on this at the end of the budget year is just great. Not only are we low on money but also the bill payments for the County stop this next week. But we are not dead in the water they told me my credit was good so we should be back in business by the middle of next week.

While I was driving along in the Richland Parade this morning I could not help but notice that several Richland City Police cars were using LED emergency lights. And last week I saw that both the Crocker and Waynesville City Police Departments also have LED equipped units on the road. So does the St. Robert City Police. The conversion by the Missouri State Highway Patrol to all LED bars is well underway. In a way this may turn out to be funny. We led the way in buying the LED’s for our cars and we may soon find ourselves with two of the last old-fashioned light bars left in Pulaski County. All but two of our cars are LED equipped. Those two cars both have used MX-7000 light bars that are in good shape and will last another six or so years for sure and may go longer.

On Friday I attended the 25th Judicial Circuit Court En Banc meeting at the Phelps County Courthouse. I have made it a practice to attend these meetings each time they are held. For those we do not know what the Court En Banc is think of it as a meeting of all Judges in the 25th Circuit. They work on the problems that have come up in the Circuit and look for ways to enhance the business working of the Circuit. I have come to the conclusion that we have a pretty sharp bunch of Judges working this Circuit. They also seem to be ahead of the curve when it comes to new programs. One such program that Texas and Phelps County now have will soon appear in Maries and Pulaski County. And that program is the new drug court.

I do not have the space needed to talk about this concept change but I sure like what I am hearing about the program. Here in Pulaski County we have far to many citizens who are addicted to illegal narcotics. The drug court will offer a special new way to handle these people. The objective is to help, force, or otherwise make them leave the world of illegal drugs. It is not a program where they can “play along” with the system and achieve consideration from the Judges. They are going to have to work and earn the consideration. I like the idea because it we can take 30 or 40 of our worst drug addicts off the street forever then we will cut crime and in general boost our County upward. And even better the Judges are making this work without spending tax money. The bottom line is simple I cannot wait for Pulaski County to get into this program.

I guess I could close with another round of cautions about driving on icy roads but for most of the people who read this column in a paper by the time you read these words we are supposed to have sunny conditions. So I will just say please drive careful and make all of your actions legal. It is such a drag to get thrown in jail during the Christmas Holiday period. And we do not have red, green, or other colors of lights on in the jail. Just plain old white bulbs, but they are ON!

cowboy · « **Reply #307 on:** December 09, 2007, 12:26:33 PM »

JB why do you patrol Fort Wood??

Sheriff J. B. King · « **Reply #308 on:** December 09, 2007, 12:55:58 PM »

Quote from: cowboy on December 09, 2007, 12:26:33 PM

JB why do you patrol Fort Wood??

We do not "Patrol" Ft. Wood. We do go on base for follow up investigations, to assist Ft. Wood authority and to serve civil and criminal process as authorized under RSMO. Any crime committed on Ft. Wood falls under their jurisdiction. We also cross Ft. Wood to get to the lost area's of Pulaski County. And since I now have two officers living out the back gate area I am sure we have been seen much more often on the base.

JB

Law101 · « **Reply #309 on:** December 09, 2007, 08:45:17 PM »

Those of us who live in the area of Pulaski County out side the South Gate of Fort Wood are not "lost" only "forgotten" at times. My neighbor, whose husband is a reserve and will be deployed in April, told me today how much safer she feels because their is a PCSD patrol car parked near her home. She feels this has cut down on a lot of the problems we have had in the past out here from our local "bad elements." Our community is grateful that their is a Deputy living out here and we don't feel like the "forgotten corner of Pulaski County" nearly as much as we used to.

Yankee Trader · « **Reply #310 on:** December 10, 2007, 12:36:39 AM »

Thank goodness that Deputy has a take home car because we tend to call him out when there is an emergency in that part of the county as he can get there alot faster than ones coming across post. We would not be able to do that if there were no take home cars.

crazy horse · « **Reply #311 on:** December 11, 2007, 09:38:54 PM »

Yep Yankee, and those guys and ladies need new cars...badly. The fleet is obsolute, unbelievable.

Sheriff J. B. King · « **Reply #312 on:** December 12, 2007, 02:27:57 PM »

Quote from: Crazy Horse on December 11, 2007, 09:38:54 PM

Yep Yankee, and those guys and ladies need new cars...badly. The fleet is obsolute, unbelievable.

Oh No! My car fleet is "obsolute". What the hell happened it was in fair condition the day before? First thing you know the fleet will be old and full of miles and.........oh wait it was that way when we bought the cars.

CH , I hope that haircut opened up your ears today.
JB

crazy horse · « **Reply #313 on:** December 12, 2007, 04:51:54 PM »

OK so it was supposed to be obsolete. I was tired. Yes, matter of fact, it took weight off my head too

Valor7 · « **Reply #314 on:** December 12, 2007, 05:54:42 PM »

Quote from: Crazy Horse on December 12, 2007, 04:51:54 PM

OK so it was supposed to be obsolete. I was tired. Yes, matter of fact, it took weight off my head too

GOTCHA!!!!!

JB

mark · « **Reply #315 on:** December 13, 2007, 06:33:18 AM »

Isn't that Vodka?

smiles · « **Reply #316 on:** December 14, 2007, 01:23:41 PM »

Our fleet of cars that we have now are better than the ones they have had in the past 20 years, Thank Goodness!! We still find ourselves needing repairs but they are minor ones for the most part.
We have completely out grown our facility, especially the jail and our amount of office space. We are making obnoxious payments to other counties for no reason, in my opinion. We should just be supporting our own county by building a new Sheriff's Department and Jail, so that way we could house and support all of our needs. The county has more than almost doubled in population in the last 5 years but we are still in the same small county facility that we have been in for numerous years. All the while we are now supporting other counties and their facilities, seems ridiculous to me.

GreekMeadow · « **Reply #317 on:** December 14, 2007, 09:22:47 PM »

Quote from: mark on December 13, 2007, 06:33:18 AM

Isn't that Vodka?

Please don't try to start another pissin match with JB....it is just too childish!

Valor7 · « **Reply #318 on:** December 15, 2007, 07:57:29 PM »

Quote from: GreekMeadow on December 14, 2007, 09:22:47 PM

Please don't try to start another pissin match with JB....it is just too childish!

Welcome back to comment land. Hope you are doing well. Watch those needles.
JB

mark · « **Reply #319 on:** December 16, 2007, 08:29:36 AM »

I not apposed to a little competition whomever can p#iss the farthest wins the argument You in J.B.?

Valor7 · « **Reply #320 on:** December 16, 2007, 10:04:35 AM »

Quote from: mark on December 16, 2007, 08:29:36 AM

I not apposed to a little competition whomever can p#iss the farthest wins the argument You in J.B.?

No, I am just doing my job.

JB

mark · « **Reply #321 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:15:04 PM »

Since when has it become your job to violate my constitutional rights, And just what are you accomplishing by keeping my gun and CCW?

Lepard LLC · « **Reply #322 on:** December 16, 2007, 12:20:41 PM »

The Sheriff’s View #51, Week of Dec. 17 to 21, 2007

Welcome aboard for the next to last column of 2007. It seems like only yesterday when I wrote column number one of the year. Time sure does fly when you are under pressure. Next thing you know the trees will be turning green. And today I cannot wait for that green day.

As I write this column I am looking out over my white yard and thinking to myself, it would be nice if Santa brought the department a few more 4X4 vehicles. The road division grabbed all of out 4X4’s last night in order to answer calls. According to rumor control one road deputy bounced our detectives previously owned Durango off a guardrail. But the same rumor said the damage was a few scratches. I suspect I will get the “official” news a little later today.

Since I have a lot of background experience with playing in the snow in a Patrol car I also know from experience that on a night like last night that there were a few police cars totaled out around the state. If all we had were a few scratches then we did just fine. In one sense we are like the fire fighters. When they broadcast that there are five accidents around the 163mm curve on I-44 the sensible thing to do would be stay away from that spot on the highway. Nope, we head to the worst part of the road. Just like the firemen charge the burning house and enter. Moral of this story, all police officers and firemen are nuts!

Still if Santa were to bring us a few more 4X4’s we would be very happy. Driving around in the type of slop we had last night in a rear wheel vehicle and going to all the bad spots does create a little excitement at times. You also find that you are soon on a first name basis with the local wrecker drivers.

Speaking of cars I would like to report that we have had a good year with our cars. The vast majority of our needed repairs have been for fairly minor stuff. In 2006 we spent $115,424.08 for all auto expense. In 2005 it was $101,199.00. So far this year we have spent $118,925.30 on auto expense. Which is just a hair over what we did last year. With repairs and the price of gasoline this year that seems to be pretty good. Unfortunately the Commissioners only gave us $100,000.00 for auto expense this year so we are officially over budget at this time.

The case number count this morning stands at 8,833. With fifteen days left in the month I suspect that we will break the 9,000 mark. I would rather see a recession in calls but that is not going to happen. As I recall the 2004-year calls for service number was only 3,912. So yes Pulaski County is growing. It would be nice if the Sheriff’s Department could also grow a little.

As of Nov. 30, 2007, we had spent $266,270.00 for inmate board. Since we have a month to go and the budget was only for $270,000.00 I suspect we will be well over budget on inmate board for the year. The real good note is inmate medical expense. So far this year we have spent only $48,430.41. And that is a far cry from the 2003-2004 inmate medical totals of $178,000.00 and $183,000.00. But we have one month to go and you never know what will happen next. We might even come in under budget.

This past week our Detective Division has been busy. They had to investigate a suicide by hanging at a Richland address and the death of a young man that was not witnessed at a Dixon address. Neither case had any signs of foul play. Both were sent for full autopsy and toxicology screens. It will be eight weeks or so before we have some answers in these cases. I did not do a press release on either case. I did talk in person with two of our local media outlets about both of these cases and our local media did not feel they were the type of stories that we in the nature of a compelling public story. They did not want the story on either case and I was quite happy not to write the release. I am only reporting the cases here in the column because they did represent a heavy investment in time and some expense by our Detective Division.

In other news, we are working on the 2008 budget at this time. We are trying to close out some old criminal cases. And I get to report that the Crime Star computer system update has been accomplished. We now have that “room full of filing cabinets” in our system to fill with reports. I am not sure I have anything else to report so I think I will close out for today by asking all of you to drive safe and stay legal. The jail lights are ON!

cowboy · « **Reply #323 on:** December 16, 2007, 02:38:41 PM »

So what was the budget for medical?

deputy341 · « **Reply #324 on:** December 16, 2007, 04:56:25 PM »

Quote from: mark on December 16, 2007, 12:15:04 PM

Since when has it become your job to violate my constitutional rights, And just what are you accomplishing by keeping my gun and CCW?

You are not getting your gun and CCW until the courts release it. You have active orders of protection against you, by law you can NOT have your gun or carry a CCW. BY LAW, therefor the SHERIFF is doing his job. I know that I have also attempted to explain to you why you can't get your gun and CCW back. You do not have a leg to stand on, the law is being followed.

mark · « **Reply #325 on:** December 16, 2007, 05:17:13 PM »

Who's Law?

deputy341 · « **Reply #326 on:** December 16, 2007, 05:34:13 PM »

AUTHORITY of US code Federal firearm restriction 18 USC922 sub section (g) and (8), only the courts can change this order. See your copy of the order of protection, it iwill be onthere, first page last 2/3rds on the page, if you no longer have your copy, then see the second floor of the court house at the circuit clerks office for a copy. thanks.

Valor7 · « **Reply #327 on:** December 16, 2007, 06:34:56 PM »

Quote from: mark on December 16, 2007, 12:15:04 PM

Since when has it become your job to violate my constitutional rights, And just what are you accomplishing by keeping my gun and CCW?

Quote from: mark on December 16, 2007, 05:17:13 PM

Who's Law?

Yours, State of Missouri, section 571.101.2 (6) (10)
and 571.101.6. Also 18 USC 922 (g) Read those and read my letter again.

JB

Valor7 · « **Reply #328 on:** December 16, 2007, 06:38:32 PM »

Quote from: cowboy on December 16, 2007, 02:38:41 PM

So what was the budget for medical?

$57,500.00

JB

Lepard LLC · « **Reply #329 on:** December 16, 2007, 06:49:03 PM »

Mark give it a break, you are doing no more that bolstering the side of local law enforcement. This subject has been put to bed months ago. You lost the battles, let it go..

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