COUNTY WILL ARM ONLY SIX PROBATION OFFICERS.Byline: Douglas Haberman Daily News Staff Writer The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
n. 1. An official usually attached to a juvenile court and charged with the care of juvenile delinquents. 2. An official charged with supervising convicts at large on suspended sentence or probation. Tuesday for a one-year pilot program, rejecting a union call to give guns to as many as 300 probation officers in dangerous positions. The motion also requested a report on a total of 78 gang suppression- and narcotics narcotics n. 1) techinically, drugs which dull the senses. 2) a popular generic term for drugs which cannot be legally possessed, sold, or transported except for medicinal uses for which a physician or dentist's prescription is required. enforcement-related officers who the board might consider arming because of the risks of their jobs. The vote was 4-1, with Supervisor Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. dissenting. She said giving guns to probation officers would change the way the public now views them as social workers rather than law enforcement officers. One deputy probation officer has been killed on duty in the Probation Department's history, officials said. But testimony before the board and interviews with deputy probation officers before the meeting made it clear that some probation officers already do more in the way of crime control than in reintegrating convicts into society. In some cases they work with police to prevent convicts on probation from committing new crimes by conducting random, unannounced home visits to search for drugs and weapons, deputy probation officers said. ``Over the years, I've seen that the violence has escalated,'' said Robby Robinson Robby Robinson (born May 24, 1946) is an American former bodybuilder who won the IFBB Mr. America, Mr. World, and Mr. Universe titles on his way to becoming one of the most dominant professional bodybuilders of the 1970s. , an 18-year deputy probation officer working with gang members in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. for the past 11 years. ``These kids are using grenades and they have access to high-powered guns. What does the deputy probation officer have?'' ``You never know what you will encounter,'' said Lynne Duke, a deputy probation officer for 12-1/2 years who often goes on ``probation searches'' in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. . ``We're in an age when people have no respect for authority.'' Robinson and Duke were among 75 deputy probation officers who rallied downtown outside the county Hall of Administration to call for a policy allowing some of them to carry a gun on duty. Chief Probation Officer Richard Shumsky urged caution in arming any of his staffers, saying guns could give them a false sense of security. ``I am not sure that guns provide a definitive protection for our officers,'' he told the board. Mark Kleimna, a professor of policy studies at the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. , told the board Shumsky's recommendation to arm six deputy probation officers and study the effect was meaningless because the sample size is too small. Ralph Miller, president of Local 685 of the Deputy Probation Officers Union, said after the vote that the union won't help Shumsky select six officers over other officers. ``That's the oldest tactic in the world,'' he said. ``It's called divide and conquer.'' |
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