PSAG: Curbing bike theft
also discussed at meeting
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“It’s been nice that the committee
picked an issue and saw it all the way
through,” she said. “We didn’t just
make a recommendation, we got a pol
icy change. We’re just an advising
group, so that’s great.” After the group
approved the revision, DPS Interim Di
rector Tom Hicks said that while he did
not want to speak for all DPS officers,
he expected them to appreciate the ex
tra flexibility the discretion clause
would provide.
“I believe ... this will be well-re
ceived by the department as well,”
Hicks said.
PSAG unanimously passed a motion
April 26 recommending that DPS alter
its policies to better emphasize its goal
of protecting students’ medical safety
when responding to calls for assis
tance, prompting the revision.
Even after the group voted formally
to approve the revision, there was still
some debate about the bounds of dis
cretion and what constituted “aggres
sion” or “unruly,” two behavioral fac
tors used to determine how a student
will be cited.
Hicks said in most cases, if the inter
action is the first contact DPS has had
with a student and the student is com
pliant, he or she will be cited through
Student Judicial Affairs.
“I think we have, in general, been
pretty consistent with that, but I’ve
had to go back and look at some of our
cases and try to explain to them why
they ended up getting cited through
municipal court,” he said.
Hicks said that at a previous meet
ing questions had been raised about
the definition of “discretion” as well.
“I’ll be quite open in saying I’m
not going to get pinned into that
corner. It’s the officer that’s there
at the scene and evaluating the
situation and the circumstances go
ing on that’s going to make that
call,” he said.
Hicks gave the group two exam
ples of an officer responding to a call
for a student who had passed out:
Hicks said he expected the first stu
dent, who was inexperienced and
had little to drink, would be cited
through campus channels; the sec
ond student, who was “celebrating
their 19th birthday with 19 shots”
and was “really inebriated,” might re
ceive a municipal citation.
“If we try to write in black and
white what ‘officer discretion’ is, we
no longer are having discretion,”
he said.
The revision will replace the older
code in officers’ handbooks, and offi
cers will be briefed and receive retrain
ing. Hicks said he expects it will be in
place by the end of the week.
The group also heard a presentation
from DPS officer Chris Fosnight on the
role of community policing in curbing
bicycle theft. There have been 192 bike
thefts reported on campus from
Sept. 15 to March 21, an estimated
$86,348 in loss, according to materials
Fosnight provided.
“DPS can’t accomplish this by our
selves. We need the community to
help us with this,” he said.
Fosnight’s presentation included
recommendations that DPS help the
community take a more proactive role
in preventing theft, such as improving
the visibility of bike racks and die lack
of consistent DPS policing, and creat
ing better boundaries between public
and private space.
“There are a lot of things people can
do that are pretty easy and aren’t being
done,” Fosnight said.
steven neiunan @ daily emerald, com
IN BRIEF
Second man pleads guilty
to human smuggling
BOISE, Idaho — A South Korean
citizen has pleaded guilty to smug
gling 13 women and a man from
Canada into Idaho as part of an
alleged prostitution ring.
Bum Suk “Michael” Kim, 33, faces
up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000
fine. He entered his plea in U.S. District
Court in Coeur d’Alene on Monday,
U.S. Attorney Tom Moss said.
Another man, 29-year-old Sang
Yoon “Steven” Kim of Surrey, British
Columbia, pleaded guilty to the same
charge earlier this month. The two are
not related.
In a plea agreement, Michael Kim
said he was paid between $300 and
$350 for each of the 14 people and
said he knew they were illegal im
migrants and could not legally enter
the United States.
Investigators claim that on April 1,
the two men drove together from Los
Angeles, where Michael Kim lived, to
Worley, Idaho, where Steven Kim
dropped off Michael Kim at the Coeur
d’Alene Casino and Resort. Steven
Kim then apparently picked up the 14
people near the Canadian border, but
he was stopped and arrested on
Highway 95 by Border Patrol agents,
who had been tipped off by an in
formant. Michael Kim was arrested
April 3 in Worley.
Authorities believe Michael Kim,
himself an illegal immigrant, want
ed to stay at the resort 130 miles
south of the Canadian border to
avoid a chance encounter with U.S.
immigration officials.
The Idaho Legislature has formed
an interim study committee to deter
mine whether human trafficking is
on an upswing in the state following
other reports of border smuggling.
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