By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 15:09:55 +0000

I would suggest that a good start in Chief Hensley’s quest for community outreach would be to make the community more welcomed at the Police Station itself. When one enters Tulare’s police station you are not met by a human being. It is a small dark closed off room and one must speak through a wall phone to an unseen person on the other side of the closed off wall. This furthers the belief that the police is afraid for their own safety in the community….it is safe enough for we the people but not safe enough for the police thus promoting an “us against them” mentality to thrive among the ranks. If you want to have a greater presence in the community then a good place to start would be at the very hub of interaction between the police dept. and citizens (like it used to be years ago). Used to be that if there was a problem then one would go to the police station to seek help but when you can’t even physically see a police officer in that building why would one ever think about turning to them for assistance. Need to speak to a policeman then place a phone call and wait hours for one to actually show up at your home. That place now says we need to protect ourselves against the community because they are all out to get us. How sad!

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By: Barbara