The Palmdale and Lancaster Sheriff’s Stations are in the process of selecting 50 interested residents from the station areas to participate in the Antelope Valley’s 33rd Community Academy.
Participants will go on a ride-a-long, tour a custody facility and participate in role-playing exercises.
The purpose of the free Academy is to build a better understanding between the community and the Sheriff’s Department through education.
Classes will be held Tuesday evenings, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., Sept. 22 through Nov. 10, at the AERO Institute, located at 38256 Sierra Highway in Palmdale.
The program will focus on the Sheriff Department’s operational procedures, as well as sessions ranging from criminal law to undercover operations.
If you are interested in participating in the Antelope Valley’s 33rd Community Academy, visit the Palmdale or Lancaster Sheriff Station and pick up an application at the front counter.
Applications can be obtained and returned at:
Palmdale Sheriff’s Station
750 East Avenue Q
Palmdale, Ca. 93550
OR
Lancaster Sheriff’s Station
501 West Lancaster Blvd
Lancaster, Ca. 93534
Attn: Community Relations
Due to the limited classroom space, only the first 50 applicants will be accepted; therefore, you will be notified only if you are selected. Those applicants who are eligible but are not enrolled in the academy class will be placed on a list for possible future selection.
For questions or more information, contact Michelle Johnston of the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station at 661-272- 2579 or by email at mdjohnst@lasd.org, or contact Sgt. Theresa Dawson at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station at 661-940-3882 or by email at TADawson@lasd.org.
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Brian says
I took the class it was very well done, it was open minded and they asked for input. All sorts there not all loved the Sheriffs, Try it may open your eyes a bit more than you think.
Tawanna says
This sounds interesting.. I’m going to tell my daughter Brittany she has been inquiring about Law inforcement ..
Tim Scott says
I’d rather drip battery acid in my eyes and eat a cowpie.
If you are going to be blind and swallow BS, might as well go all out.
avgirl says
Really you must have had a rough childhood
Digler says
Can I pour the acid for you?
You must be part of the problem in the AV! Cause your sure as hell not helping!
Tim Scott says
Part of the problem? Nope. I’m not a deputy.
Let me guess, you don’t think millions of dollars spent to settle lawsuits is an accurate pointer for finding “the problem”, right?
Uncle Tom says
Sounds like you already went all out.
Here is an opportunity for members of the community to communicate, interact, and learn more about how the Sheriffs Dept. conducts its operations, and all you want to do is continue to bash them.
Based on your continued posts it appears that no matter WHAT they do, you will forever hate them. If that’s true, then do the rest of us a favor, and take your vitriol and hatred and shove it up the same place your head is at.
OR perhaps you could engage them in constructive conversation, bring up your interactions in a public(ish) forum and see what they have to say about it. Perhaps that might bring about some changes or at least some dialog you would approve of.
Tim Scott says
LOL…or, as they have threatened to do in the past it might expose me to punishment in the form of selective enforcement.
Opportunities to “engage in constructive conversation” that do not conform to their demand for sycophantic fawning over how tough their job is and how great they are for doing it are not what you are going to find in this venue. Guaranteed.
Uncle Tom says
Its interesting how you bash other people for their ‘lack of facts’ and then you ‘guarantee’ that you know what you will find at this venue, when in fact its apparent you know jack of what this venue will entail.
I went to one of these years ago, and like ‘Brian’ up above, there were more than a couple people who were NOT all up in the sheriff love fest. Some hard questions were asked of the presenters, including the previous Palmdale station Captain, questions you can tell made some presenters squirm. But the answers were handled professionally, even if the people asking were not all that polite and eloquent in how they asked.
Everybody was curious as to how the Sheriffs would respond, and for the most part the responses and explanations put most of the people at ease. Some didn’t float right, but it was probably because of ongoing lawsuits and they could not offer up more details.
Obviously there were some tough questions to deal with when it came to the profiling and section 8 issues, among others. But it remained civil, and peoples concerns were addressed. It was very obvious not all people that were there were in love with the Sheriffs, but everybody there at least SEEMED to be interested in figuring out how to clean up their community(both civilian and LEO) and work together to do it.
But hey, keep on trucking with your attitude against them, its obviously working for you.
Tim Scott says
And you know for a FACT that these people who asked questions that “made the presenters squirm” didn’t suffer any consequences after? How, pray tell, do you know that? I’ve been directly threatened with selective enforcement more than once for asking questions that made cops squirm. I’ll pass, thanks.
Uncle Tom says
RE: Tim
I never claimed to know for a FACT that they never suffered consequences, unlike your ‘guaranteed’ statement. However throughout the rest of the academy they never mentioned any retaliation for their statements. Based on this FACT, your latest attempt as a jab is pretty moot.
Look we can go back and forth, but lets be honest shall we? All you are doing is spewing hate towards the Sheriffs, based on your past experience. We get it, for whatever reason you have had issues with them. How about instead of just ranting and raving about how bad they are, you start being a little more constructive on how things can be, in your opinion, fixed or improved?
Tim Scott says
It’s already in progress. The FBI is up their butts, and the thugs will start to pay the price.
However, that doesn’t mean that there is any reason to back off. The town is full of sycophants mewling about how “unfair” it is that the FBI enforces the laws that our deputies scoff at. I let the thugs know at every opportunity that I would rather see the millions that they have cost the county taken out of their hide, and that if the department reforms force them out of a job I hope they either never get another job in law enforcement (which is unfortunately what usually happens) or at the very least they have to move far from here to get it…but in any event their thuggery will not be forgotten.
The community is more than happy to work towards “cleaning up.” It’s the cops who have been opposed and continue dragging their feet, so as far as I am concerned it is up to them to demonstrate a change of direction. Every time one tells me “only criminals don’t like cops” it tells me that they are still unwilling to take any responsibility for the results of their collective actions.