NationStates Jolt Archive


To Protect and Serve?

Straughn
11-06-2008, 08:37
Curious day with our local news:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/431708.html
....en route to the Parks Highway about 2 a.m. where a woman was reported to be walking in traffic.
(______ said ______ was drunk when the mirror on the teen's vehicle hit her.)

Bitz, just 10 months on the job, was southbound when he lost control of the car, according to troopers. The patrol car rolled down a 75-foot embankment near the University of Alaska Experimental Farm and came to rest on its roof.

and

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/southeast/story/431696.html
A Ketchikan police officer had to shoot out the window of his police SUV to escape after he crashed it through a concrete barrier into Thomas Basin.
...
_____ refused pain medication until he was tested for drugs and alcohol in his system. He was on duty at the time but was not in pursuit or responding to a call, _____ said.

The cause of the accident is under investigation ....
...
....driving on Mill Street just after midnight Sunday when the vehicle went through the Federal Building parking lot, crashed through a guard rail and a concrete barrier, and dropped about 14 feet into the water.

...at the same time as some interesting poll results ....

http://www.adn.com/crime/story/431747.html
How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the way that police services are provided in Anchorage?

Very dissatisfied: 3.3 percent

Dissatisfied: 15.3 percent

Satisfied: 50.7 percent

Very satisfied: 21.2 percent

No opinion: 8.4 percent

The police here are responsive to local issues.

Strongly disagree: 2.9 percent

Disagree: 14.2 percent

Agree: 54.9 percent

Strongly agree: 9.8 percent

No opinion: 16.3 percent

The police are not doing a good job in preventing crime in this neighborhood.:

Strongly disagree: 8.3 percent

Disagree: 42 percent

Agree: 18.3 percent

Strongly agree: 8.3 percent

No opinion: 20.7 percent

Do any of y'all have any particular peculiarities about your local law enforcement you'd care to share?
Of course, all of this is in the same day's edition.
Brutland and Norden
11-06-2008, 11:30
The police force here suffer from being perceived poorly by the people.

And oooh, you're from Alaska! Please send me some ice to my tropical country.