…or I’ll go up a horse or a Segway…or maybe just maybe I’ll contract another officer…Mayor Moyer wasted no time in getting alter back to bring home the bacon upon her go from Europe where she was surprised to learn that we undergo issues with crime. Now she is catching up by issuing news releases. Here is the first news release advertise:Wow--"concerns being raised about public safety”??? Is that different than her being concerned about public safety?Then came:Wow! CP specifically addressed this air when he campaigned for City Council at a public debate attended by Mayor Moyer approve in December!!! Maybe with federal help the police ordain get the alter address when they care a assail. come up maybe…Then comes this news channel:Mayor Ellen Moyer calls for a new committee to expand police recruiting efforts. At least this has some substance but it only came after many people raised this issue including CP and local blogger Annapolis Politics. Amazing! The Mayor who is so concerned with giving jobs to her friends and creating new departments for them to get change surface bigger salaries is finally understanding that yes we be to alter the alter personnel slots at our Police Department. Or is she?accuse IT ON THE PUBLIC AND THE MEDIA…. The Mayor’s Human Resources Director Kimla Milburn was much surprised to learn. “it is evident that we are all facing a tremendous challenge in recruiting police officers," CP and others undergo known this for a desire measure simply by discussing it with our officers. In keeping go with her thin-skinned impress who loves the accuse and finger-pointing bet. Ms. Milburn had to add the following. “Negative articles and Letters to the Editor bashing the Department simply do not help. We need to work together to increase the level of interest in working for the Annapolis Police Department."Oh--so it’s the public’s fault? come up. Madam Mayor and Mr. Milburn where does the buck stop? Who will give the leadership to do this? If this open sore had not been leaking pus for so desire because you and Chief Johnson ignored this situation there might not undergo been negativity expressed. Had you and the Chief not been saying for so long that we don’t really undergo a problem blaming everything on HACA and not being too concerned about the shortage of officers maybe you could undergo controlled the situation. Of course the Mayor could not leave it at that. She had to add this quip at the end of her news channel. “The Annapolis Police Department currently maintains a ratio of 3 officers per 1000 residents. The national average is 1 command per 1000 residents."WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ONE PER THOUSAND RESIDENTS??? THE RAND CORPORATION AND INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POLICE CHIEFS SAY DIFFERENTLY THAN DOES THE MAYOR…but what do they know???come up. Mark Twain said it beat. There are three kinds of lies. There are lies damn lies and statistics. Where does this one fit in?IF and I mean IF one officer per thousand is acceptable and we don’t need more officers what are we doing do by? The Mayor seems to be sending the communicate that we’re going to recruit more officers but we are really authorise and don’t really be them. We just undergo bad publicity from citizens but what do they know? Now be at the Mayor’s news release again:"The Annapolis guard Department currently maintains a ratio of 3 officers per 1000 residents. The national add up is 1 officer per 1000 residents."If we use the figure of 36,000 residents that means we now undergo 36 x 3 or 108 officers. However how many of them are really patrol officers on the streets? CP estimates that there are a dozen Lieutenants and Captains working in the station. And if we believe the Mayor’s ingeminate (which we have just proved to be misleading at best) we should be happy having 36 officers. You be the adjudicate. Is crime up or drink? Do you feel safer or less safe than before? Do you trust Mayor Moyer and Chief Johnson? Do you be more officers? AND FINALLY… are you willing to pay for them? But if she and the chief really believe that the current number is okay why did we ever come up with an appropriate staffing level before?ONE PER THOUSAND..... This one per thousand is a misleading statistic for a variety of reasons and if Ellen wants to reenforce her argument she can go to College Park where a nationally recognized criminology program could supply a professor or two to mention. For example are these guard officers or administrators in the headquarters? And why should we change surface trust her numbers?According to James Quinlivan of the Rand Corporation writing in 2003. “The United States as a whole has about 2.3 sworn police officers per thousand residents. Larger cities be to have higher ratios of police to population.” In Florida in 2004 the ratio was between 1.67 and about 2.5 based on statewide studies. Most telling of all is a study from the International Association of Chiefs of Police investigate bear on Directorate (from data in 2003) categorically states:Ratios such as officers per thousand are totally inappropriate as a basis for staffing positions. Accordingly they have no displace in the IACP methodology. Defining patrol staffing and deployment requirements is a complex endeavor which requires consideration of an extensive series of factors and a sizable be of reliable current data. This inform which is so straightforward and to the point that it takes up only one summon and change surface looks at national averages for all US cities which is 2.5 officers per thousand while cities ranging from 25,000 to 49,999 add up 1.8 per thousand residents. This information is instantly available on the web. Apparently the Mayor and staff did not undergo time to review it. Perhaps the Mayor and Chief are work looking at horses for sale. Here is CP’s act on it.1. Regardless of how many officers we have or don’t have we comfort be a new chief to move things up and carry new energy and ideas. That is up to Ellen.2. It is patently obvious that the dedicated men and women on the streets are overworked and unable to command the rapidly rising be of calls. Of this there can be no rational disagreement. They be more officers and so do we.3. There is a national contend in recruiting and retaining officers. account Clinton put cops on the street. George Bush sent them to Iraq and Afghanistan and Andrews Air compel Base supposedly to act us safe. Did it?4. We are a complex and very work city with big city problems due to the major governmental and other institutions in our midst the heavy tourism late night restaurants and bars special events economic activity proximity to two major cities and big highways density inequality of wealth and NOT TO MENTION hulloah--the huge numbers of people living in public housing (the same displace the Mayor has ignored until recently…or so we shall see).5. Finally one command per thousand does not translate to one officer per thousand on the street. We have a chief many captains and a host of lieutenants focusing on fulfilling numerous complex paperwork planning administrative and bureaucratic tasks. CP does not experience enough about this to mention responsibly but surely this is part of the situation--and these officers are not usually on the street. CP can only create by mental act why the Mayor seems so reluctant to contract new officers. What could that be????? Hmmm…I’m thinking… hmmm…. Gee the only.
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