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Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

Well Lewistown Resident has blamed it on the police on numerous occasions. It is definitely still a crime, but c'mon? Doors unlocked with the keys in the igntion. Are you insane?  (6 hrs ago | post #45)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

If I hear statistics from a Lewistown Sentinel forum again, I'm gonna throw up in your face. People shouldn't let their car doors unlocked with the keys in the ignition; especially in Lewistown. I guess it's the police's fault that this happened. It's not like they print news release with the request "Regional Police recommends that all residents lock the doors and windows on both their residences and vehicles." Who would have thought to do that in the first place?  (Sunday | post #41)

Lewistown, PA

Three are arrested on drug charges: Men are picked up by the Mi...

They make their money selling marijuana. Then regional police arrests them for it and they land in jail. That's where this whole conversation begins. Drug related offenses for the people in jail.  (Sunday | post #401)

Lewistown, PA

Three are arrested on drug charges: Men are picked up by the Mi...

Pot heads stay inside and eat junk food, while they play video games. Heroin addicts steal to feed their habit. Heroin addicts rob uni-marts and break into peoples houses to feed their habit. You're insane if you think the property crimes come from pot heads.  (Saturday Nov 28 | post #396)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

Regional's call volume will decrease by about 50% too. Without the Borough holding the department back, they will be able to do more self initiated things and increase the department's size; without having to worry if they will have the money the following year. Let the Borough rot for all I care. I hope that Regional never lets the Borough back in. As always, I do feel bad for the Lewistown residents who are getting blind sided by ignorance and indifference.  (Saturday Nov 28 | post #34)

Lewistown, PA

Three are arrested on drug charges: Men are picked up by the Mi...

The thing that can help you sleep at night, is the fact that they are marijuana offenses. Don't get me wrong, I think that possession of marijuana is a crime, and should be punished; but it's nothing like cocaine or heroin. You don't really see much of that in Lewistown anymore. It must be because Regional Police is doing such a bad job.  (Friday Nov 27 | post #391)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

Regional would be better off without Lewistown. I'm going on and on about it, because until the Lewistown Resident's wake up and realize that the Borough Council is trying to screw with them; they will end up with a crappy police department. Nobody can say anything bad about what Regional is doing, but I can tell you plenty of good things they are doing. So you go ahead and take an 8 officer department with no resources. When the REAL crime starts coming back into Lewistown, it will be too late. Then, when the Borough crawls back to Regional and cries to be back in, I hope for you, your family and your property's sake; they let them back in.  (Friday Nov 27 | post #30)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

BTW, the word on the street for the last 5 or so years is that big time criminals from the City don't want to come to Lewistown to sell their drugs; because they are afraid to deal in Mifflin County Regional Police's jurisdiction. We are lucky enough to have that sort of reputation. Remember that big Heroin problem in the early 00's? You don't think that disappeared on its own do you? I wonder if the Lewistown Borough Police Department will have the resources to combat drug lords. On that note, not all criminals are stupid. They read the papers and listen to the radio like tax paying citizens. It won't take them long to figure out that Lewistown is the place to sell drugs again.  (Wednesday Nov 25 | post #18)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

The police department has arrested several people in the past few months for thefts from vehicles. The "rounds" you speak of, were SOLVED and closed out, with the exception of the most recent round. It's not their fault that the courts in this County slap the offenders on the wrist and release them from jail; then say "Don't do it again." When there are robberies, rapes and murders occurring on a regular basis, then maybe you can say the police department is doing a bad job. But when people leave their car doors unlocked night after night after night; they are allowing themselves to be victimized. Drive around Lewistown after midnight, and all you see are police cars roaming the streets. It's not the police department's fault for crime, it's the criminals. The police are doing their job and have been doing it well for the past 13 years. I have an idea. Let's cut police service. That way by the end of 2010, people will forget about the cut in service and blame Regional for the increased crime statistics. I sure hope Frank Berrier's house isn't burglarized and added to the stack of calls pending next year. That would be way too amusing.  (Wednesday Nov 25 | post #17)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

Well if anyone is sending checks, it's going to be the Borough; for the aforementioned reasons. Granville Township police doesn't have NEARLY the crime that Lewistown Borough has. Granville Township 2,000 incidents - Lewistown Borough 6,000 incidents. The borough plans to have a department about the same size as Granville. The Granville Department can handle their call volume with 7 or 8 guys, and if they couldn't, Granville Township would actually spend the money necessary to purchase more officers. You're comparing apples to oranges. If the Borough does eventually pull out, you will also see less and less police each year. The citizens need to wake up and use their brains, and stand up for what is right. The borough plans to spend MORE of their tax dollars for less service. Even Lewistown Resident should be able to put 2 and 2 together to see how stupid that is. I agree that Lewistown is the piece that's dragging Regional down, and I think that Regional will eventually be better off without them. However, Lewistown Borough will not be better without Regional.  (Tuesday Nov 24 | post #12)

Lewistown, PA

Mifflin County Regional "Police" (and I use that term loosely)

...A probation violation is not a charge. Contempt of order IS a criminal charge. That's when a person violates a PFA or mouths off to the judge etc, etc... Probation and Parole are allowed to issue what's called a detainer and they will detain a person for X amount of time, until they have addressed the issues surrounding the violation. Not a cover up... Not part of the cabal.  (Tuesday Nov 24 | post #48)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

As I'm proof reading my last post I realized something. The officers from Lewistown and Derry, who have since retired, will be payed under the regional police pension. So the officers who served the Borough for 20 years before it went regional, will still be payed by the regional police pension. You mean to tell me that Derry Township residents are going to be paying the pension of a bunch of guys who retired from Regional, who worked for Lewistown?Lewistown can COMPLETELY wipe it's hands off all of this? No freakin way.  (Tuesday Nov 24 | post #7)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

I don't know if that's the way it is or not, but it's not like Mifflin County Regional Police started up and asked Lewistown to purchase service. Lewistown Police Department and Derry Township Police Department merged to make one entity. Those officers are now employed by one department and have worked X amount of hours in over time and have accumulated X amount of comp, sick and vacation time; serving those municipalities. Now that the bill is probably enormous, the Borough can't just avoid paying that. If they try to do that, I can see a huge lawsuit in their future. No Judge in the world is going to award them that. It's like going out to dinner with your friends and leaving before the check arrives. Also, I noticed that when the Borough cut 10 units, 4 officers were laid off. So when the Borough pulls out in 2011, that means another 10 officers will be laid off. So now we're going to have 14 officers who have worked in the Borough, collecting unemployment, while the NEW 8 officers are working for Lewistown Borough with NO training. Police officers are union workers, and you can't just say, "Sorry guys. We don't wanna pay you as much money, so we're going to hire a whole bunch of new guys and pay them less." The idea behind a Union is so that employers can't bone their employees. That would be like Overhead Door laying off half of their workers, and bringing in another half and paying them less. There is something seriously wrong with this picture, and I don't think that it's going to work out in the Borough's favor. In the meantime, while Lewistown is spending millions in litigation fees, the citizens will suffer because there will be no police. What is wrong with these people? We already have a good police department.  (Tuesday Nov 24 | post #6)

Lewistown, PA

Mifflin County Regional "Police" (and I use that term loosely)

I don't disagree in the least. That's the purpose of probation and parole. Sounds like it's a problem with the courts or the probation/parole department. Not the police's fault. It's just easy to blame the police.  (Tuesday Nov 24 | post #44)

Lewistown, PA

Lewistown Borough Police Department

The paper said that Lewistown Borough is unsatisfied with the police service. I haven't read that in any papers or documents. What are they unhappy about? If they want extra police down town on foot patrol, they should purchase an extra couple of units to put someone down there for a few hours a night; instead of cutting hours. It will still cost less than their own department and it will actually be a police officer and not some idiot with zero police power, a radio and a note pad. I can see one of these "community officers" trying to make an arrest on someone and getting the pants sued off of the Borough. Maybe they can hire the crossing guard on South Dorcas Street HAHA! I'm going to do some digging(actual research) and find out how much money Lewistown will owe to the other municipalities when and if it pulls out. I can't imagine that they can just call it quits without having to pay a percentage of the police officers unemployment, sick time, vacation and comp time. That has to be a large bill that's accumulated over the past 15 years.  (Tuesday Nov 24 | post #3)