POLICE ON CAMPUS: Deputy Solorza Departs Dana Hills High for Orange County Jail
(CNS) DANA POINT-- Who said the United States is not a police state? We now have police officers stationed on high school campuses. In Soviet Russia, the KGB was on every block; well, the Orange County Sheriff has done its part to replicate that situation right here in Dana Point. Eleven-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff's Department, 33-year-old deputy sheriff Linda Solorza, was chosen early last school year to re-start the program that places a uniformed police officer on local public school campuses. Solorza's job was to create a police presence on the school grounds. She said in an interview with Dennis Kaiser of the Dana Point News, that the hardest part was breaking down the "walls of perception," to create a "dialogue with some of the students at Dana Hills High School." Deputy Solorza boasted that most of the kids eventually came around to recognize the police presence. The deputy did her job so well that she got promoted to the rank of sargeant on 31 July. "It means I won't be able to continue this year with the schools." This advancement means that Solorza will be rotated out of Dana Point, and into the Orange County Jail system as a supervisor. Of course, this will give her plenty of time to get re-acquainted with all the kids she taught to turn in their friends, when they get arrested and are held at the Orange County Jail. After guarding inmates at the county jail, Solorza declares, "I'd love to come back to Dana Point as a patrol sargeant…" WRITTEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE CNS |
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