Thursday, March 20, 2008
Richardson Police Department has yet to do something about “Officer Grabass”
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When the Richardson Police Department recently received a complaint about one of their RISD Safety Resource Officers getting overly loose and aggressive in physical contact with at least one member of the faculty, the RISD and RPD down-played what was said to be a string of incidents the likes of which would have gotten an average person in a public school cuffed and charged with sexual assault, or at least sexual harassment...and most certainly been humiliated out of a job on the police force. After a couple of days suspension, a tounge-lashing and spanking, Officer Grabass is said to be patrolling our streets, probably toting a higher caliber weapon. There is little wonder why physical violence, drug use, and distructive social groups have grown to uncontrollable levels in Richardson schools and, given the town's proclivity to put lipstick on a pig, why the response has been to pucker up, kiss and make up, and keep it within the family. (That's humorous on many levels.)
In the early 80's Richardson schools enjoyed the spotlight for being on the top of the list of best in nation. It was also a time when the courts ruled that thousands of apartments in the district discriminated against families with their "adult only" rental agreement policy. The face of the neighborhood began to transform as the demographic of the average RISD student went from 2.2 children per family-oriented, gainfully-employed owner/occupied home to extended illegal immigrant family crashing in a two bedroom, one bath rental unit and loaning the address to friends who also enrolled their english-challenged children.
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Anxious to get their hands on the public tax money paid districts based on the number of students who show up for class, educators looked the other way as activist judges made it a crime to verify imigration status as a condition for enrollment in public schools.
Meanwhile, a growing population of students frustrated at the lack of substance in the average public school educational experience are lashing out at society, finding their own means to satisfy their need for community recognition. Oh, sure. There are the model-student, statistical outlyers on one end of the bell curve. But the median, mean and mode has been shifting in a way that has transformed our precious RISD schools from the once-renowned centers of academic excellence to adolescent misfit daycare facilities, complete with flourishing drug trade, gang violence and an administration engaged in public denial.
It is said that the first step in solving problems is to admit one exists. So far, that hasn't happened. As the community wonders why and how RISD has been allowed to restrict investigation and enforcement activities that would be conducted by the city's paid police force on campus, drug and violence activity has increased to levels that have become almost impossible to ignore and cover up. Faced with another humiliating exposure for failed policy, RISD and the RPD must decide to confront the problem, head on, or continue to allow the community's schools to be training grounds for the larger next generation of residents at Huntsville.
When one examines the underlying sociology of these events, it becomes reasonably clear that the social systems we adults have established are failing our youth. Like so many centrally-controlled government entities, soceity at-large grows to resent the untouchable defenses erected by crony buerocrats who hide behind blind suport of less intelligent recipients of sheepskin that has become no more challenging to acquire than the paper found in a common public restroom.

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Comments
LyleDAL Anonymous
Hm. No names, no time and place listing of actual incidences. Also, a vague sniff of racism thrown in for flavor.
And this gets listed as news? Please.
I'm disgusted by this and I'm annoyed with Pagasus News for presenting this as such.
3 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
chrisdanger Anonymous
So, it took the Richardson City News THIS long to report the story. Seems like this kind of thing has been going on for awhile at RISD and other schools in the area for a good long while. When districts in this state start making better choices in both hiring and training of all their staff, as well as allowing teachers to actually educate our students, not just teaching how to pass a test. When those things happen, expect the "middle crowd" of students to cause problems and act out their frustrations at the machine.
3 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
bdr Anonymous
LyleDAL, this is the typical type of sludge offered by Mr. Morgan as "news" - take it for what is and move on, his "activism" does not have a lot of support in the community.
3 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
DickNut Anonymous
*News flash----this is not fiction- it is ongoing- maybe you should check out JJPHS and one officer Barry "Grab Ass" Orton. Usually mid-year job changes aren't good, and this can back it up. Public record is exactly what it claims to be- available to the public. This is VERY newsworthy and factual. Is it true he's on probation for the rest of the year while being monitored at CMLC? Will there be a forced retirement? Stay tuned in- same time, same bat channel!!!
2 months, 1 week ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
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