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V i' iHB Patrolman Allen Robbins i _ . 1__ 41 By Waiter Allread bsks ine sta? writer mention When Patrolman Allen Robbins aren't yoi arrives at the USC Campus Once I Security Office to begin his 4-12 parking p.m. shift, he steps into a scene not more mi unlike one from a television cop really ge show. like (< Robbins sees four people in the semester office: a young man in worn suggests polyester clothes is sitting, cumiHnrt in cilonoo fho mucnloc IT'S A' onvuvuig in jiAV'ftcV'V'y tuv/ iiiu^vivo * ^ ' around his eyes taut and jerky as of circlin he occasionally glances down at doors, no the handcuffs he's wearing, a doors, ch woman and a man, glancing 44-year-o] nervously from speaker to speaker has been as they attempt to identify bicycles for over and bicycle thieves, and a speaks e; Gamecock reporter assigned to work. ride with Robbins during his eight- Robbiru hour beat. reporters No one says anything until patrolmei another patrolman comes out and which file mouths a few cop show lines at the criticizing handcuffed youth: "You can get not intei five to ten for larceny...You gonna patrolmei take it for those other two boys? it is, som Oh, a bum rap, huh? " said migh EVERYONE WATCHES as the f"d ^ handcuffed young man leans * s wr< forward and fires back "Man, I 44fBut' 01 ain't stole that bicycle...I don't spJ know who them other two boys.'' suc" con* As photos are taken of a recovered bike, Robbins and the DURIN reporter head out the door to nightly Patrol Car 8. A campus security Blossom official with a Polaroid in his hand "e 8lanc i UAKULIIMA WUMEIM Free Pregnancy Testing Abortion Counseling and Services Pregnancy can be detected before rr Birth Control Counseling and Pills Pap Test and other Female Problems 2009 Hampton St., Colu 4"^ - II Man Luaii collect ? IBIIIWIIMBIBIIMMaBMMBHMBW A. * jf^ Saturday & ^ ^ July ZG mlkl ss30-<|;30 ISI qarlic. bread,house vm \X. * tossed salad IpY ^ 7i>^isU foi "gourmet, vegetarian cocKiw ^TElltosewooc zm? ( i # : v Jfir * fith his Car Number 8. (Photo by John Parnell) reporter, "You're gonna unlocked doors. "I like to check hat arrest in your story everything around, that way you i?" can tell if any thing's been vanlobbins rolls out of the dalized." Summers at Carolina are ot, the beat takes on a generally much quieter than fall ndane tone. "You can't nnH cnrincr cpmocturc tho Arm\7 a good idea of what it's veteran said, adding "When uring the regular students go away, we don't get as s) in the summer," he many calls." 0 the reporter. window's down on that car back there," he noticed. Circling 4 EIGHT-HOUR session through the campus safety \ the campus, of locking security parking lot, he notices locking doors, unlocking another vulnerable auto ? a jeep jcking doors. Robbins, a wjth a big trunk and cooler sitting 1 Mississippi native who in the opened back, as well as a with fhp pq mnnc rin1i/>o ? ? ? * ...... ~ ? ooat ana ouiooara engine Demnd it. three-and-a-half years, "He'll swear he had that thing isily, reflectively of his secured after he gets ripped off." said he was pleased Sometimes, Robbins said, "You would ride beats with go in, lock a door, come back ten i since the committee minutes later and it's unlocked." d a controversial report He said securing a university the campus police were where there are so many emested in going with ployees, students and faculty i. "Well, the way I look at members around at all hours can i ot tne things that were prove uneasy. t have something to them e's^ some information Rick James, a USC student and n^'? . .. security patrolman Robbins drives er?!!' ?u IIs ^ VeS to liis beat near Florence Benson ech is the best in any school said, sometimes patrolmen roversy. are detained for long periods of n ri*r> uio time just waiting to lock or unlock G ? E ,!Ll:iraS a door or gate for someone. ParWng Garaee James' who is curious ab?ut the ? at cars, looking for said""}?! s clinic i Golden We issing period 1 They're gonna be [ ] the Golden Spur eve, [ j sure and attend. The* I includes special beer mhia. fi P. --? ?- ? | | nuw una men. mejo 6-0128 | I House. Class will ci miiiiiimm iniiiiiiiiif?iHiwiiuiWBiw I remember Golden Wt nn 4 X I Schlitz ou taw eat .1 is #4 1 Hi raft J U 1 l per ' I Swimming Pool Q' I" jr jr | looming JUiy 3Uth I It happens every ? is police: on th not as bad as it came out in that report." James, who has worked with the n^i lj isuiuniDia jfonce Department and the State Highway Patrol, thinks the campus police need a more comprehensive Crime Prevention program, with more support from the administration so that the force can educate students, faculty and staff on security needs and procedures. JAMES ALSO THINKS former USC patrolman Michael Ross, who wrote to the Gamecock about the department's "low profile" stance, is mistaken. "It's not as bad as it seems. I've never caught anybody sleeping on the job. As a student, I wouldn't want campus police^hat would arrest you for every! <ng." BOTH JAMES AND ROBBINS emphasize diplomacy in dealing with students, they say. Later, Robbins spots some kids throwing rocks from the roof of Cliff Apartments and James runs up to lecture them on the incident. Robbins spoke of the dangers of walking around some student dorms, "I hate to see it but I know something is going to happen like that, when students are throwing stuff out the windows." He points to Bates West, saying it's a particularly dangerous area at times, and another patrolman who has since driven up, added, "Yeah, I never go around there since those students threw that bag of human feces at me." Except for a call from the Russell House University Union about "a suspicious looking black male in a flowery shirt" who never materialized, the evening is a quiet one. Robbins explained how students or anyone can be sued bv v * drivers if they're hit when crossing outside of the pedestrian walkways and adds a bit of color on one of the campus' resident derelicts. idnesdays a hnlriirtn a < ???/* '?/ ? ly ? opGoiai i/iadd IfIIH ry Wednesday night. One fh re's no name for the course and wine prices and some g< int is easy to find cause it's mtinue until midnight ever 3dnesdays at the Spur cause jl ^ Wednesday...at t * - ebeat "He knows his rights ? one day I saw him walking down the sidewalk, looking around and I said, 'Uh, what do you think you're doing, sir?' and he turned on me and said Tm on a public sidewalk and I have the right to walk down the street.'" Lack of vagrancy laws in this area make it okay for Hlirrtc tn c 1 nnn nn KAnnknn ?? W kltwp VII QJVIIl/II^O Ul anywhere that's not private property, he said, adding "We have our regulars around here, too." ABOUT TWO HOURS before midnight, Robbins spots a car abandoned in the driveway of the Florence Benson School, evidently out of gas. He calls in a report and speaks to "Butch," a pre-teenage hlnpk frnm WhAolor Mill mhn io -w.m v?a vvasvvav* IAUI ff HV AO hanging around a bus stop carrying a broken broom stick. Butch, Robbins explains, used to run with a gang of kids who were a nagging problem for security policemen on campus, but the patrolman finally convinced the kid to keep away from the gang by offering him a few bucks for a good report card. "Where's that report card?" Robbins asks the boy and Butch shuffles, mumbles until he finds another subject: "You seen that woman in the white pants over there?" as he points his stick to the Benson scnooi. "That's not a woman..." He goes on questioning Robbins, then suggests the patrolman roll the abandoned car down Pickens Street. "No, can't do that," Robbins said. At the office around -litting time, Patrolman Jesse Gaskins says he wants to know the source of information behind a Gamecock editorial on the security police, and Robbins says hellos and goodbyes to the next shift patrolmen. (Next week: The night shift.) t the Spur Summer down at )at you want to be but the curriculum ood entertainment over at the Hussel/ y Wednesday. 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