VOL. 157, ISSUE 4, MAR. 5 - 19, 2014
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Ride-along
Keeping the peace with campus police By Jackson Ly
@sfbreakingnews jly@theguardsman.com
The Guardsman Equipped with bulletproof vests, handcuffs, a collapsible baton and pepper spray, City College campus police officers Tiffany Green and Erica McGlaston responded quickly to a dispatch call regarding a disruptive student in class. During a ride-along on Feb. 27 at 3:20 p.m., the school’s police dispatcher informed Green and McGlaston that a math instructor on the seventh floor of Batmale Hall was having difficulty dealing with one of her students. “When we’re handling disruptive students, we usually go in doubles,” Green said. With five years of service under her belt, Green was the contact officer, while McGlaston, who has three years of experience, was the backup officer. The hardest part of her job is “having to deal with people who are not very cooperative and don’t want to listen,” Green said. ”It’s important to protect yourself.” When the officers reached the seventh floor of Batmale Hall, the uncooperative student had already left. The student was about to have a “psychotic breakdown,” and was “asking all sorts of questions that aren’t related to the subject,” said the instructor, who did not want to be identified. “You can’t come
Officer Green poses for a portrait at Ocean campus, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 . Photo by Santiago Mejia/The Guardsman
to class if you’re disruptive.” She told the two officers that she wants the student to be removed from her class for a couple of days. “You can do that. The dean decides what happens,” Green said. “If he does come back, give us a call.” After about five minutes, Green’s radio sounded again and informed them there were students on the roof of the Arts Extension Building. “Got to go to another one,” Green said. As the two officers ran down three flights of stairs from the seventh floor, this reporter’s sprint speed wasn’t enough to keep up with them. “Wait right here,” she said to McGlaston, as she went inside the women and men’s bathrooms of the Creative Arts Building. “Excuse me. Campus police,” Green said to a male student in the men’s room. “How long have you been in here?” “Five minutes,” he responded. “Did you see someone go out the window?” Green asked. The person said he did not see anything. By the time the two officers found the classroom window that the suspected students climbed out of in Room 218, they’d already fled the scene. Calls about disruptive students like these are rare, but when they occur, they come in “a lump sum,” Green said. Ride along: page 3
Theft spree at the main campus By Alex Lamp
@sfbreakingnews alamp@theguardsman.com
The Guardsman
Three separate theft-related incidents were reported on Feb. 12. Two of the incidents were thefts at the Wellness Center and at the Visual Arts building.
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The third was an armed robbery inside Science Hall. The first incident occurred between 12 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the Wellness Center’s secondfloor men’s locker room. Four students, including one student-athlete, reported their lockers being broken into and belongings missing. “I know that the Wellness Center thefts were related. We know there was one individual that did those three thefts,” City College police officer Tiffany Green said. “The good news is, we have not been having too many locker thefts like we usually do. This is something that is unusual, to have three in one day.”
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At approximately 6:15 p.m. the same day, a student was held up at gunpoint while exiting the second floor men’s restroom in Science Hall. The suspect used his handgun to pat down the victim and stole his watch, wallet and backpack. He told the victim to wait in the restroom for 30 seconds and then fled the area. Campus police said a similar robbery occurred at around the same time in the evening about a year ago outside of a restroom in Batmale Hall. City College police determined the third theft began at 10 p.m. on Feb. 12 at the Visual Arts
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Forty-two works of art were stolen from the display cases shown inside the Visual Arts building, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, at Ocean campus. Photo by Elisa Parrino/The Guardsman
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