View from the cop: Crime & punishment
View from the Cop is moving to a new site on Wordpress. Blogger Steve Rose of the Sandy Springs Police Department gives his take on crime, offers safety tips and give his weekly picks from the police blotter. Follow Steve Rose to the new blog site.
AJC.com > Metro > View from the cop > Archives > 2008 > February > 21
Thursday, February 21, 2008
More tales from training class
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Most of you know that training classes can be brutal but Public Information Officer training has been a lot more interesting that I assumed. If anyone figures this training to be fluff or a waste of time, look at the press conferences held after Columbine and Virginia Tech, good examples of what not to do. Stress training was Wednesday meaning hostile reporters and hopelessly ridiculous follow up questions. Good stuff.
In Emmitsburg, Md., Wednesday, it started snowing about 11 a.m. putting about three inches on the ground which caused me to run down the hallways screaming for the schools to close and everyone to stay off the roads after they empty the stores of milk and bread. Most of my classmates just looked at me like I had three heads.
During lunch I watched the local news and found that none of the reporters were rushing to show what snow looked like and nobody closed the schools.
The attendees in this class are from all over the country. The only ones who freaked out were me and the guys from Florida. We went outside and took pictures and then rented a U-Haul and bought the Food Giant out of milk and bread just out of habit.
The folks from Alaska were mildly amused at my panic, calling it a warm February where they’re from. They were so smug. I got revenge in the form of my intent to send them our state flower, Kudzu. “Just plant it in the house right before you go out of town. It hardly grows.” By the time they get back it will look like something out of “Jumanji.” Make fun of us will they? I bet they can’t even spell Lynyrd Skynyrd, those mooseheads.
