Sheriff's Dept. needs better PR

Mr. Scrivano's vitriol (Acorn letter to the editor, Oct. 4) lends one to question his impartiality. ". . .Strap on armor (and) put themselves between the scum of the earth and us?"

Do the scum of the earth live in Agoura?

While I applaud the sheriffs who put themselves in harm's way, I don't believe those situations are indicative of our sheriff's daily contribution.

As regards his comments about the Sheriff's Blotter, look at the blotter in one recent paper- amazingly enough, nothing happened in Agoura.

Had I just moved here from Cleveland or Lapland, I would comment, "What a safe community."

Unfortunately, I was at a meeting a year ago when we had achieved another perfect week, but for the woman whose home was burglarized while she was there with her children. That somehow was missed by the blotter, destroying our belief in the credibility of our local police, their statistics and their blotter.

I moved here 20 years ago. Back East we knew and respected the local police and they took the time to know us.

In Agoura, the kids talk about getting a DWT (driving while teenaged). Ask them to describe the police and you will hear, "Well, there's the fat cop on Driver looking for high school students, the creep who hides off Laro and the sneaky guy with the radar on Kanan in the mornings."

The only name they knew and the only officer they respected was Officer Bates. His departure confirmed and solidified their distrust of the sheriff's department.

Mr. Scrivano's plea for understanding should be turned around; perhaps it is time for the sheriffs to understand their constituents and our lives, earn the respect of our children and work to dispel the relentless negative depiction of them in the real world.

Is it time for an Agoura PD? William Hynes Agoura