The-Leader_1987-04-02

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Village of
Freeport
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Fieepoit
School District
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Baldwin
School Oislrlct
LfAllfJf EPCFiT M2MORJAL L I B R A B I W H I C K RD
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FREEPORT. NEW YORK. APRIL 2, 1987
52iidYEAR,No. 50
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; - : - • • Shows A Dedine In Crime
1986 Police Sfcrfs G>fifirmi
J \ 3 3 ^ f ^ S u p f i T U H I Z f l r O ^ ^ fmprovemenf /n Enforcement
^ FREEPORT - PrifTiH Y« rlnwn hut arrpctc arp iin 11
Talks On Class Size
LEADEi? /nf erv/ew Bq^ores
Various Aspects Of Plan
Crime is down, but arrests are up in
Freeport. That's what the Village Police Department's
annual report for 1986 shows. While.fewer crimes were
committed, the police apprehended more of the crimi­nals.
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' by Joan Delaney
BALDWIN - On March 13, 1987, the Baldwin Board
of Education approved the recommendation to change
the school district's policy relative to.class size. (The
Leader, March 19 and 26). The new policy calls for a
potential class size reduction at every level and tra;k by
"setting lower numbers for
Moguiie To Run
In F.F.a BecKon
FREEPORT - Raymond
F. Maguire, former
captain of Wide Awake
preferred and maximum
class sizes.
During those Board of
Education meetings, sig­nificant
discussion, took
place on these recommen­dations.
Included in that
discussion were explana-.
tions of the philosophy,
constraints, factors and
variables which provided .
the underlying' input for
the recommendations - by
the educators.' Added to
that were expectations and
concerns which were de­scribed
by parents >yho
were in attendance. Focus
tended to center oh the
- financial ramifications of
the.plani In the interest
of better informing our
readers, THE LEADEk
requested an interview
. with Baldwin's Assistatit
Superintendent of Schools
Gene. Lanzaro, who
chaired' (hat committee.
The purpose of the inter­view
was to better define
the kinds - of. outcomes
which could be expected.
from implementation of
the plan.
In .'beginning our con­versation,
Lanzaro noted
that althqugh the research
in support of a reduced
class size is clear, partic­ularly
at the primary lev­els,
the research as it ap­plies
to student achieve­ment
is cloudy. He ex­plained
that this was be­cause
of the many vari­ables
that exist in the
teaching - learning pro­cess
and he particularly
noted them to be .the stu­dents,
the teacher, the
subject matter' and the
methodology.
Laiizaro said that it iniist
be. tinderstood that this
plan to reduce class' size
should not be perceived as
a guarantee or a solution
to all of the ills of society.
The class size. reduction,
said Lanzaro, is only one
of the many factors which '
are believed to' affect stu­dent
attitude and the
teaching-learning process.
He stressed that a child's
values and attitudes are
primarily' learned in the
home and - through . his.
noii-school life. The
teacher and the school ex-perieitcej
may reinforce, or
weaken such behavior, but
it does not cause it. .•
With those points in
mind, Lanzaro outlined
some of the.--expected
outcomes from a reduced
class 'size. There should
be more; ' individualized
attention and instruction
on the part of the teacher,
. he said. The teacher
should be atle to know
the student better and
there should be the op-
' portunity for a more ac­tive
pupil participation,
Because of greater
teacher-student contact,
there ;houId be less stu­dent
waiting time and
therefore less . student
frustration.
There should'bft-greater
physical space, allowing
(Conl. on Pa{i 6)
IUY M&p^t
Engine Compatiy #1, '.has'
been unanimously
(Coat, on Pac< t>)
New Guns For
Frseport Polioo
FREEPORT - The
members of the Freeport
Police Department aire
currently involved in what
PBA President Jack Kil­bride
calls 'the best
firearms training in New
York State.-
The training involves the
police's conversion from
the Smith-Wesson weapons
they had been using to the
semi-automatic Sig Sauer
pistol. The Smith-Wesson
holds six rounds of am­munition;
the Sig Sauer 16
rounds.
The Freeport Board of
Trustees, working with the
PBA, approved the change
of weaponry late last year.
Initial training, under an
instructor from the Rock-
(Ccnt. on Pa|< S) ' ' ' '
According to the. re­cently
released -figures,
there were 1,899 incidents
of major crime in
Freeport during 1986,
ranging from murder,
down to auto theft. In
1983, the numbe): of such-crimes
totalled 2,080.
On the other hand there
•was a total of 964 arrests
made during 1986 by
Freeport police- personnel,
20 mo're than the'previous
yeair.
Last year, the largest
number, of reporU that
were filed were .for bur­glaries!
470 of theni in
1986, but that was down
. from the year before
when 623 were reported.
• The areas of criminal
activity that increased.in
total .from 1985 to 1986
were: rape, which went
froni 17 incidents to ?0;
robberies, 139 to 154;
larcenies of money of
items valued at SSO to
S200. 359 to 373 cases;
and larcenies under $50,
138 to 163.
On the other' hand, along
with burglaries, areas of
criminal activity which-dropped
in number from
1985 to 1986 were: murder
or manslaughter, from
four in 1985 to one in
1986; assault, from 72 to
63; larceny in the amount
of S20(j or more from 485
to 465; and auto theft, 243
to 190.
Of the 964 arrests this
past . year (1986), the
largest number, 203, were
drug-related. This was. a
sizable increase from 145
such arrests in 1985.
Another'large increase in
arrests were for .prostitu­tion.-
Fifty such arrests
were made in 1985; 107 in
1986.
Freeport's police de­partment
also issued a
targe number of sum­monses.
For parking vio­lations,
police officers is­sued
10,237 summonses in
1986, quite a jump from
the 8,285 they Issued in
1985. Parking meter at­tendants
also issued sum­monses
for parking viola­tions:
13,327 during 1986,
down from 16,482 in
1985. Police also issued
8,373 summonses for
moving violations . and
Traffic Law, up from
6,395 the previous year;
and 391 summonses for
(Cent, on P«f« 11)
FIREARMS TBAIinNO. Fmport V-iUift Mtjror Dorothjr Stonn and
.PBA. PretHenl J»dt Klbrid* (ttudint, r.) w»tth is Pttn Tiilty
(kneclinf, c), of Rockwood Corp.'i Polic* Training t^iviiion, [ivu tipi
to Polict Onieer Mtchatl Capriola (in fortfTound.) Kneelinf il rear u
Polict Sft. Robert Rifniir. Thi Frtcport Poltei Department ii presently
•nvolved in flrcanna traisjni inrolvini the chaste of police wtapofti to
aerm-auicrpatic Sit Sauer piitola. (See ttory, this pafe.)