Pretty damn clever of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for bragging about the number of arrests its parole agents have made which were brought about in the first place by it’s own piss poor policies and lack of adequate parole supervision. Trying to con the public by turning your awful mistakes into a notable achievement is what’s called chutzpah.
OPERATION SAFE PLAYGROUNGDS: PROGRAM OWES SUCCESS TO THE CHRONIC FAILURE OF CALIFORNIA’S ADULTPAROLE OPERATIONS
By Jeff Doyle
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
November 24, 2010
6 MONTH BARREL-FISHING EXPEDITION PAYS OFF FOR CALIFORNIA PAROLEE APPREHENSION TEAMS
Paco is encouraged to see CDCR is not only paying lip service to enforcement but actually doing some.
Even so, and with all due respect to all those "special parole agents," thanks to the weak parole policies of this administration, how could they NOT score as many bookings? In Region III alone, there are so many free-range 290′s Cal-Trans is installing road signs warning drivers of the hazard.
Which is to say, California is a target rich environment for officers seeking parole violators, PALs and stray sex-offenders. Between the Division of Adult Parole Operations and the Board of Parole Hearings continuing parole [for parole violators], slapping hands (aka ‘time-served’) or tossing out revocation cases altogether, it seems the Agency can’t release parole violators fast enough. Unfortunately, special teams of apprehension agents will never be able to keep the pace…
cdcr today
Friday, November 19, 2010
CDCR PAROLE AGENTS ARREST NEARLY 580 SEX OFFENDERS DURING "OPERATION SAFE PLAYGROUNDS"
California Parolee Apprehension Teams Coordinate with 140 Partner Agencies to Track, Search, Cyber-monitor and Capture Sex Offenders
LOS ANGELES — A specialized team of parole agents with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has arrested 579 parolees during a six-month multi-agency sting entitled Operation Safe Playground. The statewide operation, which began in July and continues through January, was conducted by state parole agents who specialize in parolee apprehension and GPS-monitoring, along with other law enforcement partners.
"Operation Safe Playground is designed to deter crimes against children by taking dangerous sex offenders off the streets and by sending a clear message to all sex offenders that our agents are watching them carefully," said CDCR Division of Adult Parole Operations Director Robert Ambroselli. "Our teams are meticulously tracking sex-offender parolees’ movements, checking parolees’ property for prohibited contraband and searching sex offenders’ homes and their cyber world for any sign they may be preying on the innocent."
The California Parolee Apprehension Team (CPAT) was created because of recent parole reforms launched by CDCR in January to direct more intense focus on parolees who pose the most risk to public safety. CPAT agents receive extensive training in fugitive apprehension, database searches, social networking, field tactics and firearms. The department also employees agents who specialize in GPS-monitoring of parolees.
Since July, parole agents and their law enforcement partners have conducted 1,276 parole and probation searches statewide, and arrested 579 sex offenders, 233 of whom were parolees-at-large.
CPAT led more than 140 partner agencies including the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service and local law enforcement departments statewide in this week’s efforts……(Full text at DORC.gov)
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