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    http://www.lohud.com/article/20110902/NEWS02/109020369/Playland-park-ranger-suffers-broken-arm-3-others-hurt-confrontation-Bronx-man?odyssey=obinsite

    Four park rangers and two concession stand workers were injured at Rye Playland Thursday night, one suffering a broken arm, when they tried to subdue a Bronx man who turned violent, county police said.

    Many years ago, Playland had "specials" to patrol the park. I was one of them, we were uniformed seasonal peace/ police officers that were armed and carried night sticks. Many of us used this experience to transition into full time careers in law enforcement. In reading the postings it appears the that "specials" have been replaced by park rangers. One of the disturbing facts in both incidents at Playland is that rangers were injured and there was no report of the perps being pepper sprayed. I am not implying that there should be retribution but do these rangers carry any devices to protect themselves? Or is thier role to observe and report and hope help shows up in time? if this is the case It seems like it may be time to go back to the "specials".

    County park rangers carry pepper spray, an expandable baton and handcuffs, they are peace officers and have full arrest authorities while on duty

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    Dealing with it before it happens is not as easy as it sounds. You don't have individuals standing on the street corners dealing narcotics in the more affluent parts of Westchester. A lot of the narcotics purchased by users in more affluent parts of Westchester are purchased in some of the more impoverished parts of the county or NYC. So unless LE can intercept these individuals in their vehicles while they are transporting their narcotics to their residence, once they're inside their home, there's not much LE can do. LE has to follow the CPL in regards to stopping and searching persons and their vehicles, which brings up the obstacles of the law and reasonable suspicion, probable cause, etc. I think overall LE does a great job of intercepting larger amounts of narcotics on the county's roadways, but for every good grab 10 more individuals are slipping through the cracks. In NYC drug dealers and collared and released the same day with no bail, so the problem of enforcing drug laws goes well beyond LE. Judges are held to practically zero accountability and continually release these individuals back onto the streets to continue their "jobs" as a street pharmacist.

    That makes sense, thanks for the explanation

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    Its not to say that LE is "sitting on their hands" or "not doing their job" that is not what I said. My suggestion was that instead of dealing with the problem after it happens, dealing with it before it happens may be more beneficial. Thats great that your municipality is able to conduct drug investigations on such a scale. But what about departments like Somers PD who have limited powers and arent on 24hrs/ day. I understand that they are supplemented by Troopers, but the Troopers have several other municipalities in northern westchester to deal with...just trying to look at this from a different angle

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    Instead of taking a reactive approach to the drug overdoses in N westchester by giving pd/fd narcan, whay not take a proactive approach and have law enforcement really crack down on the growing drug use that is happening in these locations? I understand that some of the areas where this has happened have rather small pd's i.e. croton falls somers etc. that is where the county pd needs to come in and support the pd's in combating the problem.

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    The Yorktown Heights Fire Department will be holding their annual Car Show July 8th from 3-8pm in then rear of their headquarters, in addition the Junior Corps will be running their dunk tank and Chief Martin McGannon and Eric DiBartolo have agreed to go in the dunk tank (seperatly) So come by and try to dunk them!

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    I know someone who has sirius, and I've heard it before from what I've listened to, it sounds pretty good. But when you buy it the salesperson will tell you it never loses its signal, not true. It doesnt happen often, but when you do lose it, it could take 5-10 minutes to get it back.