I’ve been reading a lot of stories lately about the Newport News Police Department. I’ve wondered about the arrests and some of the people arrested and why they were arrested. These articles have me thinking more about my own reaction to this.
Not surprisingly, Newport News is a relatively small police department, with an officer force of about 300. A spokesperson for the department tells us only about half of the arrests (and only about half of the inmates) were related to drugs. However, it did seem as if a lot of the arrests were drug related.
As I said, Newport News is a relatively small police department, and it’s a very rural area. But it’s not a small police department. It’s a crime-ridden city. This is what allows the police to make so many arrests. Not only that, but it’s hard to imagine a police department that doesn’t have at least a few arrests.
Police departments are constantly changing their rules around drug arrests. I personally started a drug-sniffing department in my childhood, so I could find the cops they needed with more urgency and more urgency. Unfortunately, the cops in the department were all so young and inexperienced that they couldn’t really find a way to get a second crack at the drugs they were looking for. I felt a little sick, but I’ve gotten so much worse since I started out.
The police department in my old department is the most efficient of the departments. They’ve been for a long time and they’ve always been for a long time. I had a chance to see the department in person some time back when I was a kid and had a lot of positive feedback from people. I knew that they didn’t want to hurt anyone and that they weren’t the most efficient of the cops.
I don’t think anyone really knows what to do with the police department in this town. The best thing that they can do is what they always did back in the ‘80s. Move on.
That’s exactly what they did back in the ‘80s. They moved on and have been doing it ever since. They’re the best of the best, and they’ve always been the best. The main problem is that they’ve moved on so many times, they’ve forgotten what they’re supposed to be doing.
Police have a lot of work to do, especially when it comes to a town like Newport News. It’s been 10 years since the last time they arrested a cop for a crime, and you have to wonder what kind of message that sends to the public.
In 2008 Newport News police officer Charles Wood was sentenced to 90 years in prison for killing his estranged wife Amy. He was also sentenced to life in prison without parole after being found guilty of manslaughter. The community response to the charges was one of outrage, especially because Amy was a former member of the Newport News Police Department. The community saw that, and they were able to get Wood back on the force, to no avail.
That anger was the first step in the process of getting the charges dropped. Now that charges have been dropped, we are now left to wonder how the community reaction has turned out, and what impact it might have on future charges.
