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Judd needs to
provide the statistics and cities he mentions.
He fails to
mention residential burglaries are falling.
Probably because he
knows they INCREASE in cities with verified
response with a population over one million. |
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Answering false alarms isn?t
taking patrol officers away from arresting criminals. On
average, a patrol officer answers one false alarm
per week. The 47,000 faux number is based on a 4.4 hour workday. I thought
patrol officers worked 8-hour shifts.
But, I can
understand Judd wanting to use statistics (or
misuse) for his benefit.
The broken window theory and the fact that Japan has a low crime rate some
how equates to criminals believing the certainty in being arrested for the
crime they commit accentuates my point that residential burglaries will
increase because the criminals will know, with certainty, that DPD won?t be
responding until their crime is ?verified.?
Judd also mentions all that time patrol will be saving will go toward
investigating the actual burglaries. Patrol
officers aren?t detectives. Patrol officers
perform a preliminary investigation, as they do now, and then hand over the
case to a detective. We will now need more detectives. |
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What exactly is the government
subsidy to alarm companies? There are no government subsidies to the alarm
industry that I can find. Judd writes about only in the world of government
could a process that is wrong 97% of the time continue to exist. The alarm
companies are private entities. They have nothing to do with any sort of
government problem. Dallas? problem is listening to unqualified
consultants.
Response time drops to around 20 minutes from ?Verified Response? private
patrol. If this isn?t taking crime fighting private,
I have more swampland available. I have faith in
the DPD to respond as quickly as possible to panic alarms.
Lastly, the city isn?t returning the $50 permit fee in anticipation
of a huge increase in service charges from the alarm companies. It?s simply
against the law to charge for services that no longer exist. It?s nice to
know, however, Judd and the rest of the Commission on Productivity and
Innovation knew alarm companies would be forced to increase their fees for
verified response. |
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Here come those stats again. They
don?t hold water. Judd, Judd, Judd, verified response will NOT provide the
?time? to solve crimes and arrest criminals. Dallas needs more patrol
officers, about 300, period. Don?t forget about how the judicial system,
jail time for certain offenses, juvenile crime etc. affect the criminal
element. |
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I don?t believe Judd?s number of
$1.3 million, but something more glaring in his paragraph needs attention.
He states the business community want VR,
they understand the complexities of the issue, unlike the stupid residents
who can?t comprehend. The business community knows what?s best for the
citizens of Dallas. Furthermore,
almost no arrests are made from the 3% of real burglaries. So, all that
extra time the cops will have will somehow translate into more arrests? So,
it?s a time factor? In other words the cops just run out of time because of
those 47,000 wasted hours, and don?t have the ?time? to investigate and make
arrests. Judd weaves
quite a web of bogus nonsensical statements.
Judd writes that he went over the numbers with the well-known civic leader
Tim Dickey. I called Tim to inquire. He was very upset that Judd insinuates
Tim agrees with Judd?s funny statistics. Tim
Dickey has a huge problem with the numbers, and resents Judd inferring he
went over the numbers with Tim and by inference Tim agrees with him. That is
simply NOT the case. Tim found that the 47,000 man-hours wasted is based on
a 4.4 hour workday. Good work if you can get it. Perhaps Judd got his
workday numbers mixed up with DPD patrol officer?s real workday numbers.
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Judd complements the Commission on
Productivity and Innovation for being made up of business and community
leaders who voted unanimously for Verified Response.
How many community meetings did they attend to ask citizens they
supposedly represent how they feel? The ten or so
community meetings I?ve attended show overwhelming support for a
sworn DPD officer responding to burglar alarms,
false or not. The police are present in the neighborhood, looking after the
over burdened taxpayers property while at work trying to make enough money
to pay the increased tax burden from the city of Dallas. The Commission on
Productivity and Innovation has no members with public safety experience, or
an alarm company representative. There?s an engineer, retail and marketing,
citizens at large, compensation and benefits, insurance, information
technology (Judd), and a CPA.
The support staff provided by the city is Kris Sweckard from the Efficiency
Team. The Efficiency Team? In Dallas? If that?s not an oxymoron I don?t know
what is?say no more. |
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Verified Response is a mistake.
The commission should put their energies toward getting rid of the pay
parity lawsuit and reversing the pay parity proposition passed in 1979.
Perhaps then we can afford those 300 patrol officers Dallas needs. |
Gary Turner
Editor/Publisher, Crime and Politics
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