Not too long ago I mentioned the WPS program involving drug dogs and some sort of space time continuum in which the 4th amendment was no longer valid. Seems as though the Athol Public Schools have a program of their own but it immediately became less than popular with the Athol teachers when the dogs involved targeted their cars and not the students.
In the lot, the dogs showed strong interest in two staff members’ vehicles, one of which was a rental car.
Chief Anderson said the dogs detected drugs inside the locked vehicle while sniffing around the perimeter.
What’s interesting here isn’t teachers doing drugs and teaching kids about double standards through example, that’s to be expected; somehow this search involved the Worcester County Sheriffs Dept 8 dog K9 unit. The unit most people probably think we pay for to keep drugs out of the jail and find missing people but seem to be more commonly found at the post office making mystery coke busts and now small towns where teaching kids to fear authority is considered a healthy coming of age exercise. Somehow this manages to fit in with the Sheriffs July 2007 statement to Worcester Magazine that his dept was not increasing their role in local law enforcement.
While Guy Glodis was on the phone, we couldn’t help but ask him about the widespread buzz that he was working behind the scenes legislatively to get his deputies added police powers. It’s something that (hypothetically) would set off the local police unions, especially in light of their protective nature over territory. Glodis calls the rumor pure baloney, and puts an utter kibosh on any idea like that. Saying there is no push to increase sheriffs’ powers, he quickly faxed over a fact sheet demonstrating the reduced role of the sheriffs. Says Glodis, “[We're] less involved in law enforcement than I was three years ago.”
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