He quickly changed the subject to the community policing program, which many residents credited with reducing neighborhood crime.Ī former D.C. "We're showing our tolerance and communication," Dine said when asked about the music. Park it like it's hot, park it like it's hot, park it like it's hot. The song, in which the West Coast rapper observes that, "I roll the best weed 'cause I got it going on," also provides advice for listeners confronted by the police: Dine, the architect of the whistle project as well as Frederick's community policing program, arrived just as Snoop Dogg's hit, "Drop It Like It's Hot," began to thump from the speakers. The youngsters and their parents were enjoying chicken and baked beans, along with a moon bounce, at National Night Out, a nationwide picnic to encourage closer ties between law enforcement and residents of crime-troubled neighborhoods. "You can't give these kids whistles," Hanner said. "The kids are going to run around blowing on the whistles all night long."įinally, they agreed to supply the whistles only to adults 18 or older. Hanner, watching the children bouncing off one another like excited atoms of gas. On Tuesday night, Michele Davis, a cheerful civilian police worker hoping to set up a heartwarming scene for politicians and the media, suggested passing out whistles to the children of the Sagner housing complex. The department is distributing 450 of them on the theory that residents who are threatened, or who witness a crime, can blow the whistle to alert others or scare an attacker. Inside the box in the police trailer, wrapped in plastic bags, were several dozen American Defender personal safety whistles: stainless steel noisemakers emblazoned with the Frederick Police Department crest.
The unveiling of Frederick's latest crime-fighting weapon wasn't going quite as planned.
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