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Today in History The fi rst discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by saying, “Mr. Watson, come here; I want you.” Bell had received a comprehensive telephone patent just three days before. — March 10, 1876 Food 4 Thought “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” — Epictetus, philospher, 50-135 AD The Month Ahead Through Saturday, April 29 Batman! at the Keizer Heritage Museum, from the private collection of David Sherman. Free admission. Museum hours are 2-4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturdays. keizerheritage.org. Friday, March 10 Poet and essayist Ross Gay to read at Oregon State University in the Valley Library Rotunda at 7:30 p.m. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow. Event is free and open to public. Saturday, March 11 Oregon cat video festival from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Located at the Oregon State Fair & Expo Center. Willamette University Pow Wow, 4-10 p.m., Sparks Athletic Center on the campus. Free admission. Millstream Knitting Guild meets at Arrowhead Mobile Park Community Center, 5422 Portland Road N.E. in Salem,10 a.m. to noon. New members welcome, $24 membership per year. For more information, visit millstreamknitting.wordpress.com. Saturday, March 11 – Sunday, March 12 56th Brooks Breakfast to benefi t Marion County Fire District No. 1 Volunteer Firefi ghters Foundation. 7 a.m.- noon both days. All you can eat pancakes, ham, and eggs. Adults, $6, children 6-12, $3, free for children 5 and under. Station 5, 4960 Brooklake Rd. NE. Sunday, March 12 Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Move clocks one hour forward, also, check all the smoke alarms in your house. Monday, March 13 American Red Cross blood drive, Keizer Civic Center, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. To schedule an appointment call 1-800-RED-CROSS or at redcrossblood.org (use sponsor code KeizerCommunity). Keizer city council work session, 5:45 p.m. at the Keizer Civic Center. Tuesday, March 14 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mayor Cathy Clark delivers the State of the City speech during the Keizer Chamber Luncheon at the Keizer Civic Center. 11:30 a.m. RSVP at www.keizerchamber.com. Lunch is $20, but the room will be open to the public. Keizer Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meets at 6 p.m. at Keizer Civic Center. Wednesday, March 15 Final day to complete the Keizer Parks Survey. Go to keizer.org and click on the scrolling banner at the top of the page. Keizer Planning Commission meets at the Keizer Civic Center, 6 p.m. On the agenda: A possible gas station at Safeway. Thursday, March 16 Comic Lewis Black performs at the Historic Elsinore Theatre, 8 p.m. Tickets are $49.50. elsinoretheatre.com. A computer algorithm helped make the call By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes At the time he was released a little before midnight on Feb. 27, a computer had de- cided Casey Miser was the least likely of about 350 male inmates at the Marion County Correctional Facility to reof- fend. The computer got it wrong. Less than eight hours later, Miser, a 36-year-old Keizer man, was back in handcuffs on a slew of drug-related charges. “You do not end up with a specifi c one-for-one rotation where one inmate takes an- other inmate’s spot. It is more complex than that,” said Lt. Chris Baldridge of the Mar- ion County Sheriff ’s Offi ce. “However, we can state that when capacity needs at the jail required a release, Mr. Miser was an inmate with the lowest score (indicating he was the least likely to re-offend) and he was the inmate that had to be released based on the jail capacity management plan.” On Feb. 16, Miser was ar- rested after Keizer and Salem police served search warrants on his Keizer home and a business where he worked on Portland Road in Salem. The searches resulted in the seizure of 40 pounds of mari- juana, 17 pounds of meth- amphetamine, fi ve pounds of cocaine, a quarter-pound of heroin, 10,000 oxycodone pills, $40,000 in cash, fi ve fi re- arms and two sets of body ar- mor. Miser was charged with delivery of methamphetamine, delivery of cocaine and deliv- ery of heroin. His bail was set at $1.5 million. Eleven days later, the jail became overcrowded with new arrests and Miser’s risk as- sessment score resulted in him being put back on the streets as the result of a forced release. The next morning, Salem police served another search warrant on a home he owns in Salem and found him in- side with fi ve more pounds of methamphetamine and illegal marijuana grow. This is how a two-time drug offender was determined to be a low enough risk to warrant release: Around 2005, the Oregon Department of Corrections and Oregon Criminal Justice Commission (OCJC) ana- lyzed re-arrest and re-convic- Source: OJIN A copy of the release agreement Casey Miser had to sign before leaving the Marion County Cor- rectional Facility. tion data of 55,000 offenders from 2000 to 2005 for the purpose of developing a tool that allows jails and prisons to assess the risk an arrestee poses to the community if they are released. After coming up with an algorithm that takes into ac- count factors such as age, the severity of the most recent crime, the number of prior ar- rests and incarcerations among other factors (race is not one of them), the analysis was ap- plied to all 350,000 offenders sentenced to probation from 1980 to the present. While the results weren’t perfect, according to an assess- ment on the OCJC website, the results were accurate about 70 percent of the time. Currently, the risk assess- ment tool – which can be viewed and used by the pub- lic at risktool.ocjc.state.or.us – lists Miser at a 43 percent chance for a new felony con- viction, a 42 percent chance for arrest for a new person crime arrest, and a 74 per- cent chance for a new prop- erty crime arrest. Miser hadn’t been arrested in the previous fi ve years although he had Tuesday, March 21 Free admission all day at Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 700 State Street. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, March 23 Salem Grow & Show Garden Club, 7 p.m. at Center 50+, 2615 Portland Rd. N.E., Salem. Speaker will be a Master Food preserver from the OSU Extension Service. Free. Add your event by e-mailing news@keizertimes.com. Marion County jail houses inmates from throughout the county, not just Salem-Keizer. The jail also houses inmates serving shorter sentences (a year or less) as well as those awaiting trial. “When our jail neared its budgeted capacity, Mr. Miser was released so that we could hold onto offenders that posed a greater risk to public safety,” Baldridge said. For the most serious crimes, such as murder, in which sus- pects are not allowed to be released, the risk assessment tool isn’t used. Such crimes are known as Measure 11 crimes, the result of a statewide bal- lot measure that set manda- tory minimum sentences for crimes like murder, rape, man- slaughter, kidnapping and oth- ers. While the system is imper- fect, Baldridge said it is the best tool the Marion County jail has for managing limited space. “We do not have unlim- ited resources so we have de- veloped a plan that makes the best use of the resources that we have available,” Baldridge said. Helping hands sought for civic center clean-up The City of Keizer is looking for more than 100 volunteers to pitch in on a clean-up effort at Keizer Civic Center Saturday, March 18. Volunteers are needed for trimming bushes and grasses, removing and potting shrubs for replanting, removing weeds, and dumping the collected trimmings and leaves into a drop box. The clean-up is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon. Contact Mark Caillier at markcaillier@ claggettcwc.org or at 503-930-7481with questions. Volunteers can show up the day of the clean-up without registering in advance. Volunteers with the following items are asked to bring them if they can: wheelbarrows, plastic trash cans, rakes, brooms, tarps (to drag loads to the dumpster), pruners, shovels and weed pullers. Those interested in volunteering should dress for the weather in long pants, sturdy shoes/boots, gloves, hats and coat. Restrooms will be available on-site and light refreshments will be provided. Rotary food drive launches Rotary Club of Keizer, in conjunction with Rotary Clubs in the Salem area, is holding its annual food drive during the month of March. Marion Polk Food Share is coordinating the effort and will distribute collections to local food banks and feeding sites. Several Keizer Rotarians have offered to host a food drop site at their place of busi- ness. Shelf-stable, unexpired food can be donated at any of these sites: Whitaker Middle School, McNary High School, Keizer Fire Hall, Keizer Vet- erinary Clinic, Oregon State Credit Union, Keizer Civic Center, Home Fire Stove, Edward Jones (at McNary Estates), R. Bauer Insurance, Loren’s Sanitation, Boucher Jewelers, Boys & Girls Club, First Tech Federal Credit Union, and Keizer Chamber of Commerce. One in fi ve individuals struggle to put food on the table. Each month, approxi- mately 14,000 children are eating from emergency food boxes in Marion and Polk counties. sudoku Friday, March 17 – Sunday, March 19 Cherry Blossom Theatre Festival. Twenty performances, six venues in downtown Salem. Hosted by Salem Theatre Network. Performance schedule available at salemtheatrenetwork.org/performanceline-up/. Tickets available at pentacletheatre.org. Monday, March 20 Keizer City Council meeting, 7 p.m., Keizer Civic Center. been previously incarcerated. While it is diffi cult to as- certain which arrest leads to one specifi c inmate getting booted from a jail bed, the risk scores of the male offenders booked into the jail the same day Miser was released pro- vide some context. A 33-year- old with a total of 16 arrests in the past fi ve years, was arrested and jailed for interfering with an offi cer. His risk assessment scores were all well above 90 percent in all categories. A 26-year-old whose risk assess- ment scores were 100 percent across the board based on 21 arrests in the last fi ve years, was jailed for theft. A 33-year-old arrested for burglary, scored a 98 percent chance for re- offending in a person crime. Another man was jailed for il- legal possession of hydrocodo- ne and scored in the mid- to high-90 percentile in all cat- egories. Finally, a 30-year-old was arrested for strangulation and had an 87 percent chance for re-offending with a person crime according to the OCJC risk tool. Several others also scored higher than Miser in a single category or all three. It’s important to note the looking back in the KT 5 YEARS AGO Gun privacy bill is big win for Rep. Thatcher Rep. Kim Thatcher’s bill restricting disclosure of concealed handgun license holder’s information now awaits the governor’s signature after passing both chambers of the Oregon Legislature. 10 YEARS AGO Police bag “serial” thieves The third time was a charm for Keizer police, as a man and woman called “serial shoplifters” by authorities were arrested at Keizer Station. The two are accused of stealing several GPS units from the Target in Keizer and reselling them in Eugene. 15 YEARS AGO Towering tree’s no tree at all Enter digits from 1-9 into the blank spaces. Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. A construction crew dis- guised a 71-foot cell tower as a giant fi r tree on property behind Dan’s Pawn Shop on River Road. 20 YEARS AGO Patterson named top explorer Aaron Patterson of Keiz- er, a captain in the Keiz- er Fire District Explorer program,recently was named Explorer of the Year.