Granville Police Report for October 2008
Mon, 11/17/2008 - 16:47
Traffic Citations and Radar Details By Month
Complaint Investigations and Persons Arrested or Charged By Month
Misdemeanor Arrests and Felony Arrests By Month
Miles Patrolled and Fuel Consumption
Calls for Service at Granville Schools
Trucks Weighed and Trucks Cited for Excessive Weight
The Granville Police drove their five Ford Crown Victoria cruisers 7,378 miles during the month of October averaging 10.1 miles per gallon of gasoline. Each month at Granville Village Council's second meeting, the Granville Police Department reports on police activities during the previous month. Presented here is the report for October, 2008. The report also presents figures for the previous month (September, 2008) and the same month the previous year (October, 2007).
Click here to view the complete monthly police report for October, 2008.
Granville Police present the data in graphical form comparing 2006, 2007, and the current year.
See the following graphical reports:
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Good point,yesman....
A school in the middle of a corn field.Fortunately the development that certain people envisioned around it has not appeared and doesn't seem to be on the horizon.
How nice it would be to have a walkway/bike path connected to the school...perhaps going all the way to the HS and down Burg to downtown.
Has anyone thought that we would have the proposed new school open this year with not enough students to fill it!
So much for the urgent need for a school a few years ago.
why the township doesn't build bike paths
The township could build a bike/walking path to GIS today if they wanted to. They don't want to. They believe in car-oriented sprawl, just like their developer benefactors.
Instead, of building paths for kids to get to school or a bike bridge that let's kids play ball at at Raccoon Valley park, the Trustees waste $750,000 building Fred's garage, paying ridiculously high interest rates to their buddies at Park National and hiring consultants for Owens Corning to write zoning laws that cover Owens Corning property.
Follow the money. The Trustees function as a vehicle to grant favors to a well-connected few, usually land owners trying to cash in on the value of the Granville school system, sometimes directly with taxpayer cash, other times with special interest legislation.
Granville's bike paths stop at the Village border. That's a fitting symbol of where community-spirited vision ends.
Follow the money? Follow the bike path.
High school and middle school are in village
FYI: GHS and GMS are in the Village. So is the football field. However, the baseball and soccer fields are in the Township. So is the slope above the football field, where people watch games.
In the 1960s, the Granville school district asked the village to supply water and sewer to the new high school without requiring annexation. The village council said no.
Thus, GHS and GMS are served by Granville police, Granville sewers, Granville water, Granville sidewalks, etc.
By contrast, Granville Intermediate School was foolishly located in the township, in a rural area of Burg Street, to help development interests who want to build homes along Burg and Loudon. The Village fought this foolishness but eventually was forced to provide utilities, under restricted terms. Thus, we have a school attached to no sidewalks and not covered by the local police force. (In fact, GIS is a freeloader because we all know that if something happens at GIS, the Granville police will be there to respond.)
It's important to have schools in the village, for our kids , for taxpayers and for planning purposes.
Are you sure Yesman?
Are you sure the Granville police department would respond to a call at GIS? They do not respond to calls outside the Village. Wouldn't the Sheriff need to ask Granville to respond?
You seem a little bitter about the school district's choice for GIS. Where would you have suggested the district build a school that was inside Village limits, that had enough acreage to meet state standards for an elementary school? And after the less than supportive response the district received from Village Council at that time, the school district may have been happier being in the township. The location of that school was an extermely contentious and bitter fight. Like the War Between the States, that war seems to still be ongoing. Maybe we, the community, could work together to build a pathway to GIS and work to remove that school's pariah standing. Just a thought.
granville police
I'm sure they would respond. They are professionals. I expected -- as the earlier poster indicated -- that an assistance agreement is already in place.
Where does the school go? Across the street from Fackler's on Newark Granville Road. That's where the next school is going anyway. And we can agree in advance not to waste time posting about the myth that state standards required GIS to be built out there.
On the pathway, the "community" has done it's part. The township Trustees are the ones charged with that responsibility. It's been 8 years. They haven't done it. They will never do it. They won't do it for Raccoon Valley Park, the prime recreation point for Granville kids. That's been 15 years. Let's not pretend, oh, my, it's so hard to build a bike path. We don't have one because the Trustees oppose it.
Good job GPD
GPD does a great job. Infact, I wish there were double the amount of officers on our streets. Just keeps me that much more safe. Wake up and smell the roses people, we have a great department. You'd realize this once you had to deal with the sheriff's office or Newark PD for a while.
Educate yourself on their job functions and you may see a different light.
-The Duke
"We sleep safe in our beds
"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." George Orwell
The Apology
Holy Cow! Someone taking responsibility for something? Someone apologizing for something?? As I said before, I like Alicia's style. I hope it reaches epidemic proportions.
I apologize
I see that Granville Press has edited my comment about Sargent Blackledge.
I apologize for the remark - it was out of bounds.
I have a real problem with the Sargent and his law enforcement style, but I should not have used the words I did to describe him.
He's still wrong, but I was wrong too when I fell into his level of personal interaction.
Please accept my apology.
Why Can't Granville Cops Be Our Friends?
Why do our cops wear skin-head hair cuts?
Why do our cops hide behind dark sun glasses?
Why do our cops drive 10 MPG Interceptor Cruisers?
Why don't our cops act like our friends?
Why don't our cops walk a beat in Granville?
Why don't our cops ride bicycles in Granville?
Why don't we fire all of our cops and start over?
Over our twenty-years in
Over our twenty-years in Granville, we've found our police department to be responsive, polite and professional. Glad to have them!
Have you met Blackledge?
You obviously haven't interacted with Blackledge.
He's Granville's ____ pig personified.
It's a travesty that he was promoted to Sargent.
This is a small town and we really don't need cops with short hair, dark sun glasses, and tazers to keep us in control.
Talk about a coward
In your earlier post directed at Buknut, you said he was a coward for attacking Sarah Thornborough by name while not revealing himself. Now you call a Granville cop, by name, a ____ pig? Ok, so tell us who you are since you attacked someone without naming yourself. Typical double standard.
Maybe I will take up Buknut's role against the evil do-gooders in his absence while he is overseas investing his capital. Wait, can you be a do-gooder and call a cop a pig?
I am sorry and you are right
I apologize. You are absolutely right - I shouldn't have said that.
I lost my cool because I have had an altercation with the Sargent and it was not only unpleasant but it was also far beyond the realm of American reality.
I believe the man is outside the law. I believe the man is scary.
I can't give my name because I'm afraid of Blackledge.
I'm sorry for being so weak.
I'm OK with the GPD
I've had the "pleasure" of interacting with them on a professional basis three times and have found them reasonable and fair.
1) I got a speeding ticket I deserved.
2) My son got into a fight at a GHS football game. The GPD called me at home to come get him rather than arrest him. The officer indicated the other boy started the fight, but that my son fought back which was not appropriate (in his opinion.) The officer indicated the preferred action would have been to walk/run away and alert the police. The officer could have easily arrested him or turned the matter over to the school. He did neither and I'm grateful.
3) The same son and some of his friends had been working on an Integrated Analysis and Physics project at the high school. They quit working on the project at about 10:30 pm. Each of the three boys had a car and decided to do a bunch of doughnuts in the snow covered GHS parking lot. Some off duty officers were using the weight room at GHS and called the GPD. The officer arrived and the guys tried to get away. The officer caught all three and called their parents. No tickets and no official notification to the school. They got off lucky.
Is their demeanor sometime a bit high and mighty? Yes. I've also seen them give people "the look." Granville isn't Mayberry RFD and Barney isn't a realistic model is 2008.
I don't have a lot of data, but my interactions with the GPD have been quite positive. Try to keep in mind that the job doesn't pay well and most of the time you are dealing with unpleasant situations. I give them a smile and wave when I pass them. I think it is important for them to know that most people support them.
I'm okay with them, too.
I agree and I do try to keep in mind that the job doesn't pay well and they have to deal with unpleasant situations. Like the time last spring I saw two of them beat a raccoon senseless before arresting it and tossing it in the back of their car. I know raccoons can be extremely dangerous and have been known to pack heat. So while I watched them whack that little bugger with their night sticks while holding it upside down by its tail, my first thought was, "Jeez. They're probably only making like 25 bucks take home for this."
They're great...
but you haven't been in the 5th or 6th grade in probably 40 years,right?
Wish GPD covered GIS
I'm not the paranoid type but it does concern me that Granville Intermediate School is in the township, not the village. That means it's protected by the sheriff's department, which has a handful of cars scattered over huge Licking County. Meanwhille, right next door, we have a fulltime 24/7/365 police force protecting three square miles of Granville Village, including the high school, middle school and elementary school. Poor planning on Granville's part to leave one school out of the police department's range.
GPD and Township...
The GPD have followed me home and gave me a speeding ticket in my driveway,IN THE TOWNSHIP!
So, all we have to do is hope that our 5 and 6th graders speed or have a tail light out and there will be GPD all over the Intermediate School!
Was it a high-speed chase?
Did they chase you with their 10 MPG cruisers at a high speed?
Not a chance....
He followed me from BREWS at @10:30 after dinner.No lights on until I pulled into my house off of Burg."31mph in 25Mph zone" going up Burg past Denison.
I wish he would have pulled me over for a sobriety test.I don't drink but I would have made him work for his ticket!
I'm also glad my tail lights were working, Blackledge would have water boarded me!
The legacy of Mollica, Harf, et al.
You are right. It would make great sense to have the Granville Police force protecting the intermediate school given the few and far between staffing possible out of the sheriff's office.
When the school was being planned a number of residents, including some village council members, pointed out that problem, along with other risks, to the school board.
Unfortunately the school board at the time was not to be reasoned with. It was so bad that in the process the attorney for the school board made threats against village council members (readers who were here at the time may well remember the "just get over it" Mollica, Harf, Sheldon, et al., board). The end result of that board's intransigence was the loss of school levies as voters figured out what was really going on. Very unfortunate period of time.
Thank goodness our current board has membership that is more oriented toward true cooperation.
Now if we could just get the township trustees in order...
News Flash.. HS and Middle School are in the Township as well.
The Sheriffs office has a mutual aid agreement with GPD to cover the 3 schools. For the person who called an officer a pig you should be ashamed. What are you having an "altercation" with the police about?
If you have a problem with an officer, file a complaint with their supervisor, dont hide behind a screen name. Our cops and Firemen are the people who you call when you are at your lowest point, Try doing that for a living. They have my utmost respect. Rick Marshall - Granville.
What?
cmhexec,
You must be confusing me with someone else. I have never called any officer anywhere a "pig."
Quite frankly I, like you, have a great deal of admiration for both our police force and our fire department.
I just wish that the school board had followed the recommendation from the police department that they annex into the village.