Approximately a week ago, a woman was assaulted while running in the area of Lot 59 (possibly an attempted kidnapping?). At a competent police department, a perimeter would be set up to locate the suspect, photographs of the victim’s injuries would be documented, and the victim and any possible witnesses would interviewed as soon as possible.
At ASUPD, however, you are required to do all those things with only TWO OFFICERS AVAILABLE at Tempe campus, assuming one doesn’t get shifted to another campus for coverage (as an aside, there were TWO supervisors working to supervise those TWO officers!). There were a total of FIVE sworn between the FOUR campuses!! Check out a copy of the schedule here: schedule 2.
This is UNACCEPTABLE. Not only can the lack of officers impede the search for the suspect, one major incident could tie up all the available units on campus. Had the suspect attacked another victim elsewhere on campus, ASUPD would be completely incapacitated.
This is a prime example of the staffing crisis ASUPD has been experiencing for nearly seven months now, and its solution of “throwing more bodies at the problem” hasn’t worked due to ASUPD’s FTO program (two more officers were recently washed out). How many more of these incidents need to transpire before someone realizes ASUPD cannot effectively manage its own people and resources?
Until ASUPD manages to fix itself–either freely or by force–we will continue to post schedules, memos, documents, etc which highlight how unsafe and mismanaged ASUPD is. The next step is to begin submitting FOIA requests for ASUPD’s financial records, emails, and personnel files, as well as moving up the food chain toward Morgan Olsen, Kevin Salcido, and ultimately, Michael Crow.
We will continue to air the misdeeds and inaction on the part of ASUPD’s Command Staff (Chief Pickens; Assistant Chiefs Hardina and Thompson; and Commanders Orr, Scichilon, Willams, and Rourke) until the department’s problems are resolved or members of Command Staff start to throw in the towel–whichever comes first.
Hahaha, you published another one of the super top secret please don’t let the world know how unprepared we are again schedules. Where were the overtime details for normal shifts we have received for two years straight? How many commanders does it take to figure out a schedule, overtime, etc?
As long as we have self-entitled and inexperienced leadership who don’t understand the meaning of the word we are in for some rocky roads ahead when the luck runs out.
Our department has a tough enough time handling similar calls with staffing. Command staff at ASUPD is too busy doing internally generated investigations on it’s own employees, the police work will have to wait. Besides, that’s what Tempe PD is for.
How can you expect them to manage police work when so many of them have never done it, especially the supervisors who worked nowhere but here?
Few of our experienced patrol officers could handle this if we had staffing. The additional hardship of not having enough people makes the problem much worse. Once ASUPD command gets involved it goes downhill from there because they spent all of their very little time on patrol here before hyper-promoting.
The command of ASUPD hasn’t completed their retail store manager training because they can’t even manage a schedule. When you ask if we as a department can manage this sort if a case? No, absolutely not. Past experience determines this to be true.
The clowns in charge of ASSUPD don’t enough common sense to realize you need to retain personel to work a case like this. The buffoons stuff their pockets and ignore all the issues that put the department in a year after year staffing mess. Keep running full tilt into wall after wall over and over again, it’s become the accident we can’t take our eyes off.
Nope! Better call Tempe, we have to look after our bike thefts, our primary focus. Sorry kids the property crimes come first.
We don’t have a team, we have individuals without the individual knowledge to get the job done on their own and who are too prideful to ask for help from people who do know what to do. Having a small house full of political sub divisions is the result of nonexistent leadership.
That pretty much sums it up. It all comes from the top down and sets the tone. Pickens has people under him who are counterproductive to the agency’s mission and he doesn’t see it or doesn’t care.
No staffing, no leadership, no support, no training, no police work. If this place wasn’t wasting so much money to over supervise nobody many of these issues could be addressed. Nope…just spend millions building more shit we don’t need, polish the stains off the image, and pretend nothing happened or could happen.
Look at the record. It says no.