http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20121122/NEWS02/711229913
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Springfield police chief asks for more help
Springfield Police Chief Douglas Johnston has asked for additional staffing in the new town budget to address increasing crime in town
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20121122/NEWS02/711229913
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One officer per 500 residents seems like "overkill" seeing as most of the population is over 85.
ReplyDeleteLess time operating speed traps means more time to deal with serious crime. No new employees required! To offset the expected decline in ticket revenue start cutting employee benefits. Lower pension and healthcare expenses to equal the private sector.
ReplyDeleteYes, because letting people drive however they want is a safe and smart decision...good thinking.
DeleteYeah, keep up the race to the bottom! Funny how so many anonymice want to live in a third-world country....
DeleteAnd the irony here is that CG and his sewer rats are leading the decline!
DeleteHere we go.....this is ridiculous. We cannot afford two more officers, especially creating an additional Lt position. That means one more individual who sits on their ass at the office. He wants more people so none of them have to work as hard. Get off your duff and walk the damn beat. Its Springfield NOT clairmont. The whole foot patrol takes what? an hour..get real and work for your damn money.
ReplyDeleteDon't YOU DARE ALLOW one dollar to go to this DEPT or the fire dept. This is crazy!
I am for revamping the system however for you to say that I hope you're house burns down while you are being held at gun point. You will see the value of the fire and police dept.
DeleteFour more officers would cost about $280,000, according to the chief. This averages out to the price of three cups of coffee per household per week. Unaffordable? I'd rather live in a better town than have three more cups of coffee a week.
DeleteNow CG and his sewer rats want to take the cup of coffee right out of your hands! First your coffee, then your houses and land. And all the while assuring you that it's an "affordable" act!
DeleteNow, now, the next thing you will be suggesting is that the problem is with our fine Police Chief and the Selectboard Chairman whose relative is a Dispatcher. This would be a good economic move as it will help improve the business at Dunkin Donuts. So long as they don't make these officers canine units...hate them dogs sniffing around and making all kinds of problems for the local businessmen.
DeleteYeah, I am willing to suggest that the increase in the force be conditioned upon the Police Chief being terminated and the Selectboard Chairman being required to recuse himself on all votes concerning the Police Department. So there Boss Hogg what do you make of that?
DeleteSo, Stan, to increase the force, you first want to decrease the force. Hmmmmm, very clever. But when is a cut not a cut and when is an increase actually a decrease? As long as you can get it to the ballot, it's a sure thing in Springfield! On the ballot = stiff the taxpayer. By Jove, you've got it!
DeleteHey CG...The best part of waking up is NOTHING in YOUR CUP!
DeleteSee Stan Williams, Springfield is not mathematically challenged, replacing the Police Chief and adding police results in a decrease in the force. And how do you expect them to pay for these officers unless they maintain their welcoming committee to people coming into Springfield from the Interstate with tickets. What is wrong with you folks, you just don't understand. It is important to the economic health of the community that we not disrupt the status quo. We bring in the new blood, sometimes called the Bloods, and they help stimulate the need for HCRS to hire locals at minimum wage to take care of the parolees who we keep jacked up on Suboxen. That way we have plenty of work for the not-for-profits in Town and HCRS can take over places like the Turning Point and drive the AA into a new locale, or replace it with NA. Nothing like a good Suboxen fix...
DeleteOld rule of thumb most city's have 1 officer per 1000 ppl. Yet this is often like comparing apples to carburetors because there is so much difference in how departments use people. My question is, we the taxpayers paid for a K-9 officer and dog (training, patrol unit, upkeep etc.), now that the officer has been promoted (well deserved), Springfield no longer has a K-9 unit that is certified. What a waste of our tax money and the Chief wants two more men, seems to me he should restructure his department and stop complaining. The patrol officers attempt to do a great job and are pro-active, but are hampered by the police administration time again and again! Let’s start looking at the administration before we add more staff and waste more of the taxpayers money like the Chief did with the K-9 unit.
ReplyDeleteWhat similar size cities use the formula of 1 officer per 1000 population? A quick search of the internet shows the US Average is 2.5 officers per 1000 population. This police department needs less Chiefs and more indians...
DeleteIt might be more effective and cheaper to just replace the police chief. Problem solved!
ReplyDeleteStop making sense. Just stop it, that stuff doesn't fly here in Springfield.
DeleteMy guess is this..
ReplyDeleteThe Chief is real good. Too Good.
1/3 the force is good too, real good.
1/3 of the force is good
and 1/3 of the force is failing hard.
the chief is being blackmailed by the 2/3 of force that wants to sing kum bah yah and get along without disrupting their socio welcome status on facebook or self / group approval rating. He'd probably like to fire some of the turd balls without causing mutiny
solution. hire 2 and fire 3
Dear nonsence,
DeleteYour solution to the propsoal is not the approach to add to the staff, of fix your problem.
Last time I added two and took away three leaves me with a minus one. Being two policemen short already, now three short.
Perhaps we should ask for seven more and settle with five more.
@ 6:35
DeleteI think the idea was for the rest of them to work more co-operatively, smarter, and harder.
Might try taking away their radar guns for a month and see what happens to the crime rate, just sayin...
DeleteAnd where is the Windsor County Sheriff's Department in all this? Where are the State Police? Better yet, where is the Department of Homeland Security? We are already spending gazzilions on law enforcement in this nation, but none of it seems to benefit the lost towns like Springfield.
ReplyDeleteWhat are they supposed to do. The sheriffs only do contacted traffic enforcement for round without police coverage, court security and other related things. The state police only cover towns without police departments and frequently only have two Troopers working.
DeleteThe Sheriff's Dept is not funded by the State, but funded by the contractual work they do.
ReplyDeletePer the State Auditor: Operating expenses are typically funded partially from county taxpayers through the general county budget, and partially from a variety of department
Deletefees and service charges...
Right. By design, all these "government resources" are compartmentalized in ways that inhibit any synergy and require taxpayers to fund everything separately, which of course means more government jobs for all of us to foot the bill for. It's all BS.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering which department's turn it was to seek a staffing increase. I guess the police department drew the longest straw this year! And hey, you know, it's been a few years now since the taxpayers got slammed by the cost of a NEW POLICE HEADQUARTERS, so Johnston's thinking that who's going to push back on a few more radar rangers!
ReplyDeleteOhh look! Another person caught selling heroine on the streets of jolly ol Springfield! Two 15 year old kids caught drunk, one passed out on Chester Rd the other day. Nahh we don't need any more cops!
ReplyDeleteI do agree if you sit in Village Pizza and watch across the road to the apartment building you will see most drugs dealers going in and out at certain times.
Or on reservoir road! Wow this town is going to hell in a hand basket.
ReplyDeleteBetter get the expansion plans ready for that mental health center up on River Street! Whoever opened that place was a visionary! Springfield has gone from a tremendous manufacturing and agricultural base to a haven for damaged goods and social misfits in two generations or less. Thanks to all the town leaders who have contributed to this over the years! And let's not forget the voters who enabled them! Bravo! Bravo! As Springfield circles the proverbial porcelain bowl, perhaps the town should appropriate funds for the contruction of a Hall of Shame to immortalize the losers that have sent the town spiraling down the drain...
ReplyDeleteAgree with the Hall of Shame, but only if it will raise our taxes. Only fitting.
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