• BIGIILAND PARK'S NEW SAFETY OFFICERS-Standing taU wltb H bland Park' Director d Deputy
. DIrector of t e Department or PubUc rety are el&bt ne pubUc safety omce . Left to rigbt (front row) are
ty Dlrecto Jobn McMeekiDs, oftlcers Jon than P rneu, Judith Norwood, Realn Allen, SheD He
DIrectOr Manbal Emerson Junior. B ck row, left to right are Bobby W rd, Eugene 'lahul Kev
M-= d Jimmie Wheeler. (pho b, N. Scott)
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pping arlike
ociation intends to fight crim­
m ge and their fir t tri e j
Highland Street between Oodward
and Second Avenue .
Highland Street, between Wood­
ward and Second Avenues, th
sociation maintains, i th ideal pl ce
to begin "becar we have to put
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d y, July 17, there will be "a troll
down Highland Street,"
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ByNATHANIELSCOTr
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HIGHLAND PARK - The city of
Highland Par f beefing up its
public safety trength.
In a move that may be a comer
tone in its fety program, Highland
Par recently hired eight laid off
Detroit police officers nd within
two 'Weeks i police academy will
gradu te dditional officers.
What the e office mean to
Highland Park, Director of the
Department of Public' Safety, -Mar­
hall ErriersonJunior aid is, at "peek
hours," two hif will overlap and
more officers will be on the streets.
However, there has been some
criticism; words to the effect that if
Detroit cal the laid off police of­
fice back to work, Highlaoo Park
will be left with, eight slots tbat need
to be filled.' ,
THE ARGUMENT eem to
, favor hiring additional office
through the police cademy proce ;
not hiring laid Off Detroit officers.
Director Emerson defended tho
city' po ition by pointing out that
one, he i till recruiting; two, inner
city police dep rtments are training
grounds; three, the eight trained of­
ficers who e average street patrol is
three years, ved Highland Park the
co t it would have sustained if it had
put them through the academy; and
four, it i unconstitutional to ask of­
ficers to sign agreements whereby
they have to swear allegiance.
"By hiring these eight officers it
saves the city m<mey, " Emerson said.
"We are now up to budget expense."
The Director said his position is
"pro active; not reactive." Which
meaDS, he ld, he observ his sur­
rounding Iocalitie , Detroit, Oak
Park, Inkster and the like, and use
that information and his combiDed
years of police work, to make
decisions.
He id he also instructs his ot\­
fleers "to be sensitive to adze
ituations.
MOREOVER, Director Emer ..
son aid, "Too many of OUf citizem
are placing negative attitudes 0
themselve . The e new officers are
under what we call a wer hift":
He dded, "There will be more
street top; more treet inv tlp-
tions." .
According to Emerson, Highland
Park doesn't have a gang proble�.
per e, and hi department is "diIJ.
placing" the drug element by in.�
creased raids, nd, be dded, bcca
the city has hired additional public
afety officers;"1 nticipate a poIi-
tive impact." ! ,
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