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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,
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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
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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
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reporter, "You're gonna unlocked doors. "I like to check
hat arrest in your story everything around, that way you
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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
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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
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James, who has worked with the
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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
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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.
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"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
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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
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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.)
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