Police Play
March 7, 2006
I’m in my first class I’ve attended as a student in quite some time. I saw a newspaper article a while back about a group attending the citizen’s police academy. This ten week course gives you all kinds of insights on how the police work. I wanted to be the first to sign up for the following session.
Tonight was the kickoff night, so for three hours I heard about history of the Kansas City police department, learned a little (that I could retain) about the departmental structure from the top down. I didn’t know this, but both Kansas City and St. Louis are the only police departments in the country that report to a police commission rather than being run by the state.
Another thing I learned was that in Kansas City and I’m sure other places, the 911 emergency number was instituted in 1983. What the heck? That fact didn’t sound right, so I searched and found the following website: 911 Dispatch and it states that 1980 was the year St. Louis implemented 911 as for a testing period. That coincides pretty well for me.
The first class ended with us recieving our first police issue 9mm Glock and “The Proper Applications of Police Brutality” instructional VHS video. I don’t have a VCR anymore, so I’ll buy the DVD version.
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