“Twelve people, including a professional BMX rider, have been arrested in conjunction with a six-month string of burglaries at various schools throughout the Santa Ana Unified School District, school police said. School police Sgt. Mark Van Holt said pro BMX rider Benjamin Snowden, 28, and his accomplices were part of a team that would break into multiple classrooms in the middle of the night and steal laptop computers and overhead projectors,” according to the O.C. Register.
What is Santa Ana coming to? Now the white guys are ripping off our schools! Maybe we need to deport a few of them? Time for reverse gentrification!
It’s a good thing it ONLY took the school police 6 months to catch these guys otherwise the schools might have run out of laptops and overhead projectors. That is some kind of rapid police work.
that’s what happens when you have fifty some school sites, and the alarms don’t work.
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Undoubtedly contributory factors which if true were apparently known to the district and school police administration or you wouldn’t mention them now as excuses.
The story reports that capture of two of the burglars was the result of officers responding to an alarm. Since you mention the alarms didn’t work that implies it took six months to get them fixed or just dumb luck that this alarm did work.
Your comment also begs these questions. If the school police depend only on malfunctioning alarms to catch burglars; if school police are unable to take a proactive patrol posture during a crime spree because the district is just too big and beyond their control, then why waste money to have them work at night in the first place?
Anon, clearly you are attempting to sound more intelligent then you are…and for that you are a fool.
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Ya think? These ar easy questions especially when one stops to consider not one other district in OC has their own police working at night. These districts do not seem to report 6 month burglary crime waves nor blame the problem on the size of the district or defective alarms either.
Anon has a chip on his shoulder
Well when a department only has 2 officers at night for 65 schools how are they suppose to be at all the schools all the time. Its only going to get better with budget cuts.