Operation Slick Budget
Listening to last week's radio reports of slick roads brought to mind a commercial parody from back when Michael DelGiorno hosted the morning show on 1170 KFAQ, back during Tulsa's last budget crisis, early in the Bill LaFortune administration. A 911 caller with a police emergency was told by the dispatcher that because the city was on "Operation Slick Budget," an officer couldn't respond to the call.
It's not quite that bad, but police response to certain calls will decrease as a result of Tulsa Police Department layoffs, according to a TPD press release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For More Information Contact
Officer Jason Willingham
February 4, 2010
918.596.1336Due to the recent reductions in staffing, the Tulsa Police Department has been forced to evaluate ways to maintain the staffing levels in order to respond to priority 911 calls. As a result, the department has temporarily suspended responding to certain property crimes and report calls.
Officers will not respond to non-injury collisions, fraud and forgery reports, burglary from vehicle reports, larceny reports and other minor property crime reports. The exception to this new policy will be a non-injury collision involving an intoxicated driver, or a non-injury collision involving a disturbance or other crime. Officers will respond to calls for service if the crime is in progress or if a suspect is still at the location.
While we understand that this may not be a popular decision, it is important to continue to have adequate manpower to respond to higher priority calls and crimes against a person. This change will be revisited as the department recovers form these difficult times.
Crime Reports can be filed electronically at the Tulsa Police Department website www.tulsapolice.org or call the Non-emergency number at 596- 9222 for other reporting options.
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From a TPD press release Tuesday, reversing the February 4 decision not to respond to non-injury accidents: Due to police layoffs, a temporary change in collision response was made on February 4, 2010, until a manpower re-distribution and re-structurin... Read More
Michael Delgiorno had many funny skits and black-outs; a real talent.
I especially recall his "Family Picnic to the Pocket Park", and "Smoking more cigarettes and buying more Lottery Tickets to benefit common education funding".
He's missed. Unfortunately, he underestimated doing battle with immensely powerful, ruthless and influential local plutocrat families.
They're still here; he's gone.
Like Bob said Michael Delgiorno is missed.