Police To Repeat Offenders: Let Us Help
CBS
Joel Thomas
March 31, 2014
BEDFORD (CBSDFW.COM) - He’s a former soldier who suffers the effects of PTSD and recent marriage problems. To protect his identity we’ll just call him Chuck.
“Losing my family like that, no one can ever really explain what you’re going through,” Chuck said.
Police know Chuck. They’ve visited on disturbance calls. He’s what police refer to as a repeat victim, people who often have disorders who police see more than once a year.
Bedford found that 9% of the people they dealt with were responsible for 20% of all their cases.
“Especially on the domestic violence side, repeated offenses against the same person,” said Bedford Police Chief Roger Gibson. “And on the mental health side, the same person being hospitalized over and over.”
Thursday, Chuck received a welcome visit from two specially trained officers and a counselor. They’re three of the four members of the Repeat Victimization Unit. They’re here to listen.
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It's nice to see a positive story about the police. They get a lot of bad, and good for Chuck.
ReplyDeleteI talk to these guys all the time and they do this type of thing more times then most people know about. Glad to see it reported too.
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