ADDED POLICE PRESENCE CALMING GLENDALE CAMPUSES.Byline: Jennifer Hamm Staff Writer GLENDALE - Officer Andy Pierovich investigated fresh graffiti graffiti Form of visual communication, usually illegal, involving the unauthorized marking of public space by an individual or group. Technically the term applies to designs scratched through a layer of paint or plaster, but its meaning has been extended to other markings. in a bathroom at Hoover High School Hoover High School may refer to any of the following:
2. skip first period and sat in on a class that has too many discipline problems. And it was barely 11 a.m. ``There's a lot going on all the time,'' Pierovich said as he looked across the 30-acre Hoover campus. ``It's like a little city.'' A 14-year veteran of the Glendale Police Department, Pierovich is new at Hoover High School. He joined the lone school resource officer as part of a new effort by the school and the city to step up police presence at Glendale and Hoover high schools. The stabbing stab v. stabbed, stab·bing, stabs v.tr. 1. To pierce or wound with or as if with a pointed weapon. 2. To plunge (a pointed weapon or instrument) into something. 3. death of Hoover High senior Raul Aguirre last year prompted the City Council to pay for eight new positions within the youth services bureau. Midway Midway, island group (2 sq mi/5.2 sq km), central Pacific, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) NW of Honolulu, comprising Sand and Eastern islands with the surrounding atoll. Discovered by Americans in 1859, Midway was annexed in 1867. A cable station was opened in 1903. through the school year, officials say, the new officers are making a difference. ``The tone of the year has been more peaceful and more calm,'' said Hoover High School Co-Principal Kevin Welsh. There are still fights almost every day, said Pierovich, with students pushing, shoving or throwing punches because of ``mad dogging'' - when one student gives another a dirty look that escalates into physical violence. But things are improving, agree some students. Violent fights, weapons and drugs were a lot more prevalent on the campus a year or two ago, said Andrey Arutyunyan, a 16-year-old junior. ``When I was a freshman, everybody was getting high,'' said Andrey. ``There were a lot of drugs.'' More police and the use of drug-sniffing dogs have contributed to students sobering so·ber adj. so·ber·er, so·ber·est 1. Habitually abstemious in the use of alcoholic liquors or drugs; temperate. 2. Not intoxicated or affected by the use of drugs. 3. up and behaving, he said. The death of Aguirre and the accidental shooting death of another student a few years ago has had a chilling effect  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. on the students, Andrey said.
``It teaches you a lesson,'' he said. ``You get in your place.'' Sophomore Arsen Avagyan said he feels safer walking home from school because the gang presence on and off campus has diminished di·min·ish v. di·min·ished, di·min·ish·ing, di·min·ish·es v.tr. 1. a. To make smaller or less or to cause to appear so. b. . That could be because the gang detail, which had been all but extinct for the past three years, now has a sergeant and detective working full time to track the activities of the five active Glendale gangs, said Lt. Michael Rock Michael Rock can refer to the following people;
They will continue to build a database of information tracking gang members, an effort that had been largely ignored for several years, Rock said. The youth services detail, which includes campus officers, will by March include a Police Activities League program. Two officers will facilitate youth programs aimed at giving teen-agers good adult mentors. ``The beauty of that is when the kids feel comfortable around police, they start to talk to them,'' Rock said. This is when officers will have the opportunity to talk to youths about making the smart choices when it comes to joining gangs or doing drugs, Rock said. If more parents don't get involved with their children's lives, it won't matter how many new programs are offered or officers posted at the schools, Rock said. `'The single biggest issues in this community is a lack of parental involvement,'' Rock said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why the parents aren't getting involved.'' |
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