Your thefts, which are probably my biggest crime, then vandalism to cars or school desks or rooms. But what I call violent crimes like rape, murder, you don't see that inside our schools.

You'd be surprise what they tell us. I just got a deal the other day where I got a crime stopper tip where I ended up getting almost an ounce of pot, That's almost $200 worth of hydro off a kid, because of a kid coming in and telling me. It's a good program, and I enjoy it.

I think that this is more real. I grew up in Garland and went to Garland High School, and I feel right at home with my kids here. I look at these kids like they are my kids. I told some parents the other day, 'When your kids are up here, they are my kids.' That the way I feel about it.

Well, we have never had a homicide here at school, thank goodness. We have had some of our kids go off campus and gotten killed. We had one of out student that was shot in a drive-by on U.S. 75, but really, we don't see that type of crime.

As far as violence goes, school is school. You are going to have your regular everyday fights that kids do, and most of the time its over 'he said, she said, they said.' But we really haven't seen a real increase in violence. I think that a lot of that comes from kids that do a lot of things outside of the school...schools are no more unsafe than they were 10 years ago.

In '87, Kelley Moore was an eighth-grader, and when I came in, I was a younger officer, and I became his big brother and everything that I did he thought was cool. I would just talk to him and hang out with him. Now, Kelley is a engineer with Channel 8, and he comes and gets me and takes me to lunch, and it has become a lifelong friendship.