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2 March 28, 1996
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
On Patrol-
; by Don Courtney and Sgt.
; Avex Miller
March Highlights:
; Forlhe first half of March, officers
have been extremely busy chasing
Und answering calls with the
fallowing to report:
' Following the investigation of the
recent fires in and around the
community, two juveniles are
currently being held responsible and
haVe been referred to juvenile court
fbf further action.
'Three car wrecks were
investigated that resulted in two
arrests for drunk driving, the other
remains under investigation.
,'.Two subjects were arrested
following a traffic stop at about 1
a.m., with the discovery of suspected
marijuana.
A total of 24 Compulsory School
attendance reports were received and
forwarded to the juvenile authorities
for further action; over 470 referrals
are still pending.
Five domestic disputes were
attended to in the areas of Greeley
Heights, the Kuckup street area, IHS
and Sunset Lane.
.Domestic violence continues to
cause some concern as five people
were arrested for assault and battery;
three persons for assault charges;
three for trespassing, one disorderly
conduct and one case of a violation
of a restraining order.
'tWith Spring break, so comes the
increase of runaway complaints as
students try and deal with situations
at home. A total of 13 complaints
wpre received that resulted in the
apprehension of eight.
jirinally, a total of eight warrants
were served on individuals for failure
to'ebmply, failure to appear, orfailure
to pay.
; ;TiI McGruff checks in again, look
to other alternatives in dealing with
what life has to offer.
Community Shares Concerns:
.-Community members expressed
qfuite a number of concerns on March
12 at the Agency Longhouse as the
supervisory staff of the Police
Department listened with anticipation
af.;tmproving services for our
Community.
KSome of the concerns voiced at
thc-tneeting include: gang violence,
house or residential parties, drug
enforcement, houses being burned,
neighborhood watch, lack of action
On a n assault victim, curfew
enforcement, follow-up on theft
cases, burglaries, child sexual abuse,
Vehicle break-ins and wood cutting
are currently looking into specific
matters brought to our attention and
will report back or contact those
CPS Open
House
; Tuesday,
April 2
11:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m.
Door prizes, tours,
light lunch and
entertainment
Remember:
j;'April is Child Abuse
: Prevention Month
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individuals for further clarification,
resolution, or expected action.
Thanks to those in attendance for
sharing your views and concerns;
our service will improve.
Community Policing Program:
Here, over the last few months,
some of you out there may have had
a patrol unit stop in your driveway or
on the street, not wit the intention of
coming around looking for a warrant
or trying to find someone to arrest.
No, not this time. No, this time, the
officer in the patrol car is doing his
her part in a new program we have
been slowly getting off the ground.
Community Policing is what the
program is, and spending time talking
with members of the community,
listening to concerns, problems,
complaints, whatever is a big part of
this. The goal is to develop a working
relationship with the people. In time,
this not only gives us some ideas to
help the public, but the public learns
ways of helping us. The ultimate
goal is the police and the people
working together to identify
problems, find solutions to these
problems and implement the
solutions.
Communication is the key to
effective Community Policing. If our
officers don't spend time visiting with
the people, and the people, in turn,
don't talk to the officers, the concept
will not work. And when I say people
I don't
mean just
any one
group,
this
includes
t h e
children,
adults
Effective communication is
important part of community
policing. Police and residents
will work toward similar goals.
and the
elders.
You all have interests here, we need
to know what your feelings are.
Over the last few months, I have
been training, coaching and teaching
a number of our of ficers the concepts
of Community Policing. Some of
these officers have been making
contacts while they are out there on
patrol. Officers have been to the grade
school and spent time during recesses
visiting with the children. The Fish
and Gam officers have been working
at the same with the rural areas and
residents. I have been spending time
with folks when I am on the road.
Officers involved in this program
at the present time include Truancy
Officer Mary Stewart, Patrol officers
Mark Coffee, John Barrett, Melissa
Grijalva and Howard Patt, Fish and
Game officers Don Winishut, Alex
Smith and Greg Stinson,
Investigations Lt. Bob Whittenburge,
Sergeant John DeBiaso and myself,
Sergeant Stoney Miller.
Anyone who is interested in
learning more about what we are
From Managed Care....
Alternate Resources must be
The Managed Care Program is
designated as the "payor of last
resort". This means that all alternate
resources must be utilized
before the Managed
Care Program can pay
any medical bills.
Alternate resources are other
sources of health care or health
care payment that may be
available and accessible to
patients.
Some examples of alternate
resources include:
Medicare (part A andor part
B); Medicaid or AFS or Oregon
Health Plan; Veterans Benefits
(Champus; Private Insurance
(such as Confederated Tribes
insurance, PH&L, BCBX,
Mailhandlers); Children's
Rehabilitative Service; Auto
Insurance; Worker's
Compensation;State Vocational
Rehabilitation or State Maternal and
Child Health Programs.
Clients are required by federal
regulations (CFR 42; Ch. 1; Subpt.
36.23, F) to apply for an alternate
resource if there is reason to believe
that you may be eligible for alternate
resources. In many cases the alternate
resource is Medicaid, often known as
the Oregon Health Plan. Once on
Medicaid, you are required to fill out
trying to do, please feel free to call
and ask questions. You may contact
Whittenburge, DeBiaso or Miller at
the Warm Springs Police Department
at 553-3271 If, by chance, we are
not in, leave a message so we can
return you call. If you would like,
feel free to stop in. We are also
available to do presentations for
groups, neighborhood get togethcrs
or meetings. Just let us know when
and where.
A.D. "Stoney" Miller
Sergeant of Police
Gangs: To Join or Not:
Most of us certainly realize that as
we gain more wisdom in life, so
comes (he added responsibilities of
our future. The question currently
boils down to, do I become involved
with an organization that might
appear t satisfy the basic needs that
are not currently being satisfied at
home?
Not enough rules, too many rules;
am I being held accountable or not;
am I being overly loved or starved
for love; am I being abused or maybe
neglected? Do I have a sense of
belonging to a sense of not being
understood at all? All are f -tors
being considered on a daily basis by
our children, adults and peers alike.
Gang activity, while not new to
our culture, has been seen,
experienced, or has impacted our
lives in one way or another. The Boy
Scouts, 4-H
groups, uirl
Scouts, the
Boys and Girls
Club, various
athletic groups
an all
relatively be
looked at as
some form of
gang. How
about all the police agencies around
the nation?
The major difference in today's
society is how we look at these groups
and their fundamental purpose as an
entity.
Is it for glorification, to hurt, to
destroy, to cause pain? Is it to better
enhance or enrich one's life by giving
back to the community a sense of
belonging, to be prideful and of
caring.
From decision to one's future:
A student is actively involved in
school and everything is going along
just fine. One day the student needs
to talk to hisher parents, however
both parents are busily trying to make
ends meet by going off to work.
"We'll talk later." But later never
comes. "Just deal with it," says the
parent. The student leaves, thinking
well.. ..now what should I do?
Problems start developing both at
home and at school. While minor at
first, as time goes on, the problems
seem to get worse.
renewal forms at intervals determined
by Medicaid.
If you are eligible
for an alternate
resource,
please fill
out any
paperwork you
may receive from
the Patient Care
Advocate in
Managed Care and
return it to the
Advocate in a timely
manner. The Patient
Care Advocate,
Sonia Heath, may be
reached at 553-4948.
She is very important
in assisting you to
apply for alternate
resources. If you
refuse to apply for, or renew, or refuse
to use that alternate resource, this
program will not be responsible for
payment of your medical bills. You
will be responsible for yourmedical
bills. You do not have to use your
own financial resources or sell
valuable or property to qualify for
alternate resources. Some people do
Smith chosen to
Jo Ann Smith
Jo Ann Smith had been selected
as a participant of the 1996 Mission
Perspectives Tour to South Africa
and Mozambique, sponsored by the
Worldwide Ministries Divisions of
the Presbyterians Church (USA)
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The student starts to ditch school
in an attempt to get someone'i
attention. Ordinary tasks that the
student is so responsible for now is
pushed to the side, put off, as he was.
Maybe school is boring or whatever
the excuse, school is no longer
keeping his attention.
While ditching school or
possibility in and around school, gang
peer pressure starts to affect the
student as thoughts turn completely
away from academics to wanting to
belong somewhere where he is
appreciated or someone will listen.
One day, the student gets caught
ditching school and the parents are
contacted by the authorities. "I was
just having fun," the student explains.
The student is now back at school,
but school is just not the same.
Contact was made with a potential
gang and now to satisfy the pressure
of these new acquaintances, the
student is flirting with gang
membership.
Eventually, the student is now
faced with failing grades, continued
problems at home and now, a decision
is made to ditch school even more.
Intervention? Intervention?
Where's the intervention? The
student drops out of school and with
the assistance of his new-found
friends, he becomes involved in
minor crimes.
Minor crimes? Yes, he must now
prove his loyalty. He gets a sense of
accomplishment in these acts against
the community, after all, no one is
getting hurt, are they? Most
importantly though, he must now
have approval from the leader.
Time passes on and the student
becomes involved with alcohol and
drugs. It's okay, everyone else is
going it, right?
The cops are coming.. ..arrested
again. The parents? The parents are
hurt and disappointed. "What went
wrong," they ask as they try to
understand.
The students stays in touch with
the gang, sneaking out at nights. He'll
do anything for a chance to be with
his friends.
More drinking occurs.. .drugs are
availablc.do I? Shall I? Oh, what
the heck, you only live once.
Once involved in petty crimes,
the student's crime spree becomes
worse, an assault, breaking and
entering, major vandalism, major
theft. "It doesn't matter, it's not
mine," he rationalizes.
, The parents, busy in their
endeavors to make a happy home,
start to notice in the student new
clothes, a car, plenty of money.
Maybe overall behavior has changed,
a new look, the student seems so
distant. No family involvement,
everything they want to do is boring.
The student, with his gang, now
starts feeling some intimidation from
used-
not qualify for alternate resources
like Medicaid simply because they
make too much money. You will
need to provide proof of your Indian
descent in order to be exempted from
paying the monthly premium for the
Oregon Health Plan.
! Using an alternate resource does
not disqualify you from Direct Care
services at the Health and Wellness
Center. The Indian Health Service is
required to bill your alternate
resource.
It is to your advantage to sign up
for alternate resources. The Managed
Care Program has a limited amount
of funds to pay for services by medical
providers off the reservation. Using
alternate resources can pay your
health care service that the Health
and Wellness Center is unable to
provide, which in turn will make the
Managed Care Program funds go
further to pay for other Native
Americans who do not qualify for
alternate resources. r-
If you need clarification about the
above policy, please contact Michael
Marcotte, Administrator, in the
Managed Care Program office, at
553-2490.
attend Presbytery travel seminar in Africa
March 3-23, 1996. This is a travel
seminar and a unique opportunity for
continuing education in self
improvement and knowledge shared
with Presbyterian Church.
Smith, who was one of twenty
people chosen throughout the United
States, visited church colleagues and
mission projects in Johannesburg,
Durban, Cape Town and Pretoria.
She was hosted by three partner
churches: The Evangelical
Presbyterian Church in South Africa,
the Presbyterian Church of Southern
Africa and the Reformed Presbyterian
Church in Southern Africa, to learn
from a vast array of voices about the
"New South Africa."
Smith was encouraged by a letter
from Rev. Jon T. Chapman, Area
Coordinator for Southern Africa. He
stated that both South Africa and
Mozambique, indigenos people of
color(so-called Coloreds, Blacks and
Indians) had expressed a number of
times their real interest in Native
people in the USA. He said that cross
cultural sharing is long overdue and
would be received with great
;
the community so a decision is made
to spread some intimidation of their
own in the community. The gang is
now considered his family.
Oh no.. .something goes wrong,
someone tipped off the
police. ..yikes... busted again.
Court follows with the possibility
of jail and fines. AH property is seized,
sold, or forfeited.
The student is sentenced and now
time has slowed.. .time to think. ..it's
decision
time.
Shall I
quit the
gang?
The
student
takes
notice,
thanks to
all those
around
him or
Gangs offer sense of
belonging, self-worth to youth
who are sometimes left to fend
for themselves for basic
human needs, such as love,
nurturing and family.
those that
used to be around him, that lime has
now been wasted. "I wish I wouldn't
have missed all the fun. Oh.. .but I
was having fun...I think? Gangs?"
Probation follows and now the
student must tow the line. Fines,
community service, back to school.
What happened to school? Choices,
choices, choices. Night school to
GED. What about a job? What
happened to my future. Can I make
it?
The choice is yours.
Law Enforcement Weekend
Officers of the WSPD again
represented our community in the
Central Oregon Public Safety
Weekend in Bend at the Mountain
View Mall March 15, 16 and 17.
Although it seemed the
presentation might be losing some
motivation by fewer agencies
represented, the WSPD put together
another very impressive presentation
thanks to DARE Officer Mary
Stewart, Officer Lonny McEwen,
Officer Floyd Calica, Sgt. DeBiaso,
K-9 officer Mark Coffee and his
sidekick "Jody".
Child AbuseNeglect Awareness:
In its continuing effort to educate
members of the community on Child
Abuse, Child Neglect and Chid
Sexual Abuse, the WSPD took its
presentation to the Early Childhood
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The Children's Art Show, which opened March 1 5, will run through
May 27. The Show features artwork created by tribal member youth.
enthusiasm in South Africa. He has
longed for more racial-ethnic
Presbyterians to get involved in
longer term mission service. Smith's
visit to South Africa was an exciting
opportunity to open some doors of
mission and relationships. This trip
offered an exchange of cultures
Smith says, "sharing my native
culture or way of life with the natives
and church workers of South Africa.
. .in giving you receive."
Locally, as an elder for the Warm
Springs Presbyterian Church, she has
served on session, Pastor Seeking
Committee, Sunday School, Vacation
Bible School Teacher, choir, and
Women's Group. In the community
she donates her time to worthwhile
projects-scholarship committee, the
school district SMART program,
community growth and welfare,
formerly on County Chamber of
Commerce, superintendent selection,
etc.; sponsor of youth and young
adults' sports teams and educational
and cultural pursuits.
Within the larger church she has
Education Center March 5 where staff
and community members gained
valuable information on reporting
requirements as outlined in the tribal
Law and Order code.
WSTC 305.1490 Child Abuse,
Obligation to Report
I) Any person whether a private
citizen, private official, or public
official who has reasonable grounds
to believe that a child with whom he
has contact has suffered abuse, or
that any adult
with whom
he has
contact has
abused a
child shall
report such
information
to the Warm
Springs
Tribal Police
Department
or to the
Warm
Department
Springs Juvenile
forthwith.
2) Nothing in the foregoing section
shall affect the privilege usually
afforded communications between
psychiatrist, psychologists or
attorneys and their clients or
clergyman and their parishioners. All
other privileges shall not be grounds
for excluding evidence regarding
child abuse or the cause thereof.
3) Any person submitting a report
in good faith as required in paragraph
1) above, and who has reasonable
grounds for making thereof, shall
have immunity from any liability,
civil or criminal, that might be
otherwise be incurred or imposed
with respect to the making or content
of such report. Any such participant
shall have the same immunity with
respect to participating in any judicial
proceeding resulting from such
report.
4) Violation of this section shall
be punishable by a fine not to exceed
$500.
Still a priority in our community,
members of the WSPD investigative
team were also on hand and
introduced to those in attendance so
that the audience would know who to
address specific matters, referrals or
questions to.
Special thanks to Bob
Whittenburge for his presentation.
served for many years on the
Presbytery level, Synod level and
National level on volunteer
committee work Native American
Consulting Committee, Self
Development of People, Native
American Education Grants, Third
World Women, Cross Caucus, Joint
Strategy and Action Committee,
Native American Theological
Association, to mention a few. She is
currently on NAEG, Racial and
Ethnic Committee, and Board of
Trustees and Secretary to Cook
College and Theological School of
Tempe, Arizona.
She felt the need to inform others,
especially Native Americans, that
there is a larger picture to the world
of Mission.
She was sent some literature about
Africa for reading before her arrival
in Africa. She was also restricted in
the weight of her luggage for travel
in Africa. Smith was very excited
and nerv ous about her trip to Africa,
but feels it will be aunique experience
for her to visit and share stories.