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June 14, 2014 The Alabama taKE OnE! “The People’s Voice of Reason” Distributed in the Tri-County Area and Surrounding Counties! VOL. 14. ISSuE 9 JunE 2014 [email protected] MoNTGoMERy CoUNTy ~ AUTAUGA CoUNTy ~ ELMoRE CoUNTy ~ CRENShAw CoUNTy ~ TALLAPooSA CoUNTy ~ PIKE CoUNTy VOTER APATHY IN ALABAMA JUNE PRIMARIES. Low voter turnout! Important races decided with few votes, especially in local races. June 14, 2014 GovERNoR RoBERT BENTLEy wINS BIG! I AM yoUR FLAG PAGE 4 • Democrat candidate Parker Griffin will be facing Governor Bentley in the November 4, 2014 General Election. • Lt. Governor Kay Ivey wins big and will meet Democrat opponent Rep. James Fields in the November 4, 2014 General Election. • The race for Secretary of State for the Republican Party will be decided in a run off between Reese McKinney and John Merrill on July 15th. THEMETAPICTURE.COM Happy Fathers Day!! Especially the father who gives all and serves his country. A PoRTRAIT oF PATRIoTISM - S ee pg. 12 Buy the gift that lasts forever! Diamonds for the one you love! EngagEmEnt JEWELRY DESIgnERS DIamOnDS WatCHES L 9 D A I 6 , A # y P D 1876 East Main Street, Prattville, AL 36066 (334) 365-6552 R 1876 East Main Street, Prattville, AL 36066 (334) 365-6552 T E E T S G I M T A o R T S M S G 4 R . C T o 1 s R P L P 0 N e L 2 g S o E , t a U g M h P p n g i i 0 r h 2 s y i , p l e t o b G d t u e C e N t 4 z I P s 0 e a 9 e H . 1 u t t G e S t 6 q S I e u e 3 a z s L n R s L a m o B I e s a - A G U c r , b 4 i e y P a a 1 v f r l f r e m e E e e A P : a J T S m m I e b t o T u n s h O a l g r l E t a H T o u T n Z A t E V S e o A 2 R M 1 G 2 The Alabama Gazette June 2014 MMoonnttggoommeerryy CCoouunnttyy LLaaww VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.montgomerysheriff.com PRIME BURGLARy SEASoN SHERIFF IS CoMING! Chief Derrick D. T. MARSHALL START A N EIGhBoRhooD wATCh PRoGRAM Cunningham Prime Burglary season will soon be here again as the summer days your information every six months to keep you information current. To approach. It is time to assess our homes and businesses to make sure that we enroll, you can email [email protected],or call 832-1369 are secure and we have a record of our belongings. It is also time to consider for an application. joining a Neighbor Watch program. Not everyone has cellular service so the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Neighborhood watch, block watch, town watch, whatever the title, Office has added 4 kiosks for the public to use in the case of an emergency. initiatives are one of the better ways to prevent crime, attend to home and personal security, address the safety of our children as well as reduce fear and isolation. Civic involvement and collaborative problem solving helps neighborhoods reduce crime by significant numbers. Our citizens are our eyes and ears in Montgomery County and you are the ones who help catch these criminals who are out there to prey on you. We have solved many crimes because of a concerned neighbor who saw something out of the way and called us. In early 1972, the National Sheriff’s Pike Road call box Sikes & Kohn call box Association created a model program to today’s neighborhood watch program. At the time Police Chiefs were searching for ways to attack the increasing burglar rate across the country and recognized that communities able to secure the assistance of their residents in observing, recognizing, and reporting suspicious or criminal activities were better able to keep the burglary rate down and reduce other crimes. Today, neigh - borhood watch is the largest single organized Ramer call box K-9 unit call box crime prevention project in the nation. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office is active with Neighborhood Watch Associations to educate The kiosks are simple to use, just push a button and it dials straight in to the neighborhoods on the importance of these associations. We teach the MCSO dispatch center in order to get help to a rural location quicker. Some importance of communities becoming and remaining involved in their of the kiosks are equipped with a camera. You can find these emergency call community to reduce crime because together we can make a difference! boxes at the Ramer substation, the K-9 kennel on highway 331 just outside Several communities in Montgomery County have neighborhood of Snowdoun, the Pike Road town hall and in the parking lot of Sikes and watch programs. They are: Eastwood Villa Association; Grady Association; Kohn on highway 231 in Pine Level. Mount Carmel Neighborhood Association; Narrow Lane/Mcinnis We plan on starting another session of the Montgomery County Sher - Neighborhood Association; S.W. Snowdoun Chambers Road Association; iff’s Office’s Citizens Academy early next month. The Citizens Academy Sprague-Ada-Legrand Association; the Timberlake Association; Lagos Del was founded to teach the citizens of Montgomery County how the Sher - Sol Neighborhood Association and the Knollwood Homeowners Association. iff’s Office is operated. Every phase of operation is carefully examined, giv - Of course there are many other such organizations in the City of ing our citizens an insiders look at the nuts Montgomery. If you are interested in joining or starting a Neighborhood and bolts of law enforcement. We are proud association, please contact Lt. Clarence Brannon at: to offer the Academy as a public service [email protected] or call our community services division at and we are confident that it promotes pub - 832-1369 or email [email protected] . lic safety by keeping Montgomery Citizens The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office will check your home for informed about our laws, why we have you while you are away on vacation. Deputies will check your property, you them and how they are enforced. The citi - windows and doors to ensure that they are undisturbed. If you live outside zens Academy includes members from all of the City limits, please call 334-832-4980 to set up a vacation home check communities of Montgomery and Mont - if you are going to be gone. If you reside in the City of Montgomery contact gomery County. It meets for six weeks, one the Montgomery Police Department at 241-4800. If you have any question, hour per week at our office at 115 S. Perry contact support services at 832-1369 or email MCSOSupportservices@ Street. We guarantee that our students will have fun learning about patrol, mc-ala.org. K-9, Sex offenders, Civil process, The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office also offers a free Business warrants, the detention facility, investigations, and the last meeting will be and Church watch program. This program allows us to get in contact with at our training facility where we will have a cook out. You will have a chance your authorized personnel and key holders of you facility in a faster manner to fire our weapons and a chance to use our shoot-don’t shoot simulator. For in the event of an emergency at your business or House of Worship. Our information, call 832-1369 or go to our web site at montgomerysheriff.com . deputies often encounter unsecured doors while on patrol and this program Get informed about law enforcement and sign up today. allows our dispatchers to notify you by phone of the problems they have found. If you enroll in the program, your building will have a gold colored The views of this editorial may not express the views of The Alabama Gazette. Sheriff’s Office sticker with a special decal number that is posted on your door. This decal number is unique to your business and enables us to determine who to call in case of an emergency. It is important that you update Courthouse Cafe G REAT FooD ! hot Lunches (home cooking!) Meats & vegetables Advertise your business Sandwiches ~ handmade hamburgers! in the upcoming issue of the CoME By AND Call wanda EAT wITh US . ALABAMA GAZETTE! today! Located downtown in Montgomery 334-832-1684 Call 356-6700 County Courthous e open M-F - 7:30 am - 2:00 pm • Breakfast Served 7:30 am June 2014 The Alabama Gazette 3 Bench-Bar- & Beyond RACE AND By Judge Dale Segrest INCARCERATIoN In the past couple of articles we have discussed the alarming increase in for incarceration probably have a disproportion - the rate of incarceration. We have pointed to the fact that an increase in the rate ate impact on the black population. Given the Judge Philip Dale Segrest of incarceration signifies that criminal law is not working very well. Ironically, fact that the criminal justice system is not work - Want to know more about the the criminal justice system seems to take pride in the number of cases processed, ing extremely well to begin with, in bringing author or to comment on the column: and the number of convictions. But law works well when people obey the law. about desired behavior, there is not a great deal http://www.segrestlaw.com Now we turn to an alarming demographic fact about incarceration in these United of inducement to the black community to alter The Segrest Law Firm States.
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