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Hit and run arrest
From the Ocean Shores Police Dept.:
A 46 year old Lynnwood man is in custody at Grays Harbor County Jail for the January 19th Injury Hit and Run Accident that occurred on Pt. Brown Avenue in Ocean Shores. Ocean Shores Police were able to obtain information from witnesses that led to the identification of the suspect vehicle and driver. An arrest warrant was issued for Michael Bourgette of Lynnwood for Vehicular Assault and Hit and Run Injury Accident. Lynnwood Police arrested Bourgette at his residence on the warrant on 1/27/1. The suspect vehicle was seized and a warrant has been obtained for the search of the vehicle. Information indicates that Bourgette had been drinking prior to the incident and he currently has bail set at $250,000. The victim, William Avery, remains in Harborview Hospital with extensive injuries.
it is amazing to me how quickly everyone here digressed into a conversation about the number & budget of the police dept. let us all keep in mind this article is about a man being hit by a truck!! keep your eyes on the ball here people.
Excuse me Gary, I should of spelled your name correctly, Iversen. thank you.
God bless Det. Iverson for his dilegence and thoroughness in the investigation of a Brutal hit and run,a crime in which often assailants go unprosecuted after the subhuman act of leaving a man to die violently in the street. If you want to rally behind something then rally behind the hero who does the slow tedious legwork Billy Avery cant do with a broken spine and crushed pelvis to get justice. Rally behind the heroic surgeons, who regardless of the cost,took the 5 hours to close a 26inch long wound around a 32inch waist and saved his life. The driver of that vehicle almost cut him in half and drove on. unexcusible. My fiance William Avery & I would like to thank you detective Iverson and everyone else who assists in this investigation and prosecution. God bless those who rally round Billy. It’s a long road ahead Billyboy but i know you’ll be walkin on the beach at the end of it.I love you.
Hey Tom, can you get the overtime hours for January and February once the month is over? I think it will be an unpleaseant surprise for all how much OT will have been paid after the two officers are gone and everyone who is left takes their scheduled vacation time, sick/family leave etc. I bet the OT paid for those two months alone will equal over 2 months of Off. High’s salary. And then it would be interesting to see where that OT budget is at the mid point in the year….
Iverson-Remember those words “scheduled overtime”?Remember also that the union says 40 hours a week for a full time employee and you don’t split weekly payroll periods? Do the math and do the union contract and do the scheduled overtime and you will ultimately come up with the right numbers.
Do the Math….3.5 times 50 equals 175. Some weeks 3 days @12 hours each and some weeks 4 days of 12 hours each! For an average of 3.5 days a week! I don’t care about the rest of it, if this is your life, so be it.
Like I said, do the math anyway you like, but 4×50=200, not 175. What you are also forgetting is the scheduled overtime. Just a minor oversight, I’m sure. You call an average of 3 calls a day overworked? Sounds like a real hardship to me.
Ok, Raf, figure that the officers work 12 hour days. So that is three to four days per week, 49 to 50 weeks per year (vacations), that would be maybe what 175 days a year? My soggy math makes it 3.53 calls per officer per day. Were you figuring that they work 365 days a year?
A quote from that very 2009 budget, page204, by Styner is “comes to 617 calls per officer.” That is a per year figure, which equates, using any base you like, to a whole lot less than 3 per day per officer. So do the math any way you like, but these are the chief’s own words.
There are not 10 officers on duty at one time. The 2008 number of incidents is listed as 8,410. That divided by 365 days is a little over 23 incidents per day. That make it about one incident per hour. Obviously it will vary from day to day. There may be multiple calls some days and less calls other days. The police web site still uses the bogus visitor numbers. Until we get a more accurate way of counting visitors vs. residents and vendors at the gates we will never know the truth. Medina, WA has such a system. It is used for crime prevention. See: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009873854_medina16m.html
Great article. 3100 people in the town and they have data regarding who came and went. They then can look and see damaged cars that arrived fine. That would have been useful for the hit and run accident. We should be checking this out.
We always seem to be talking about our overworked OSPD, but using data from the 2009 budget, the calls per day per officer equates to 2.3, assuming an average total of 10 officers, which was low for 2009. So round this up to three per day and tell me once again how busy they are? Also, most police officers complete their daily reports on a computer sitting in their car, which could very well be on the side of the road, making their presence known. Our OSPD is different from this norm because?????Please explain.
Thanks for joining in Rafael, missed you on here. The problem with that rationale is that if there is another call in the city, the police officers respond to it. Which means they are not available to sit on the side of the road and watch for these guys/gals leaving the bar with a few too many down the gullet. And let’s face it, it’s not too difficult to keep it between the lines at 25 mph unless you’re seriously sloshed. We seem to think that the police guys just hang out somewhere or at the station when they are not doing something better, but that’s not necessarily the case. If they are at the station, it’s likely to write reports that are due at the end of their shift, or perhaps take a meal or potty break? They work 12 hour shifts, I thnk that’s reasonable. I know some people think they don’t do anything because they read the police blog in the paper, but it’s not all inclusive. A very small percentage of the calls are what is printed. They assist EMT and fire calls, respond to non-crime citizen requests etc. Some nights these guys are so busy they don’t even have time to take a meal or a potty break. It would be nice to have them stationed around the strip waiting for a drunk driver to veer off course, but if they are responding to a call then they will be no where near the area. We can’t have it all, we either have a large police force than can be there to catch the crime and deter it, or we can have a very small force that only responds to things after they have happened. It’s reality.
I wasn’t going to comment on this, but being that I was asked into it, I guess its time to stir the pot. First of all, time for a compliment to the police for identifying this criminal.
I also think thst one point that writers may be alluding to, is that during any given shift, there should be at least two police (officers/supervisors) on shift, and they all have radios. I seriously doubt that they have many walk-ins that need attention at the station during the late night hours, so if the supervisor’s presence is not required at the station (incoming phone calls can also be forwarded to a cell phone), rather than have someone sitting at the station during these hours, why not have that person occasionally sitting in his suburban/escalade/ford/etc. along Point Brown/OSB watching for one of these drunks to drive by. Watching for erratic drivers is still not against the law, and the mere presence of an officer randomly stationed in this area might encourage quite a few of those drunks not to have that “one more for the road”. Also, it would only take the word to get around for one instance where an establishment was cited for over-serving a patron, for this over-serving to be greatly curtailed.
Who should do these extra patrols, “Citizens”? The city has already made it pretty clear that a police department is not needed here, so they are not going to authorize an increase in patrols around the watering holes. The mayor is trying to get rid of the all of the police, or at least a significant number. Where is Rafael? He would recommend that Crime Watch take care of it, and that the city could give them a suburban. That would solve EVERYTHING. Let’s see – two lay off’s last year, one this year, a retirement where the position will not be filled, and another probable lay off. That totals 5 positions. They started with 11. Yeah, and there is increasing crime around here so it’s a perfect time to get rid of our police department and require businesses who struggle to make it through the winter to provide their own protection if they don’t want to be robbed. That is asking a lot when people are paying taxes for basic services. If you take too many of those services away, people will have to close their businesses, and when those are gone, the tourists will go away too, and we won’t have any crime or tourism to worry about any more. That is a sound long term plan for a city that is younger than my kids.
“Supreme Court decided about 30 years ago that they aren’t allowed to do that.”
Cite please.
They may not sit out and wait for them to come out of the establishment drunk, but they can increase the number of patrols in the downtown area where these establishments exist. There is a difference. It seems we have more burglaries downtown at night these days.
Joe Smith,
I hate to burst your bubble but legally the cops can’t do that. It’s called “entrapment”. So you can blame them all you want for not sitting outside the bars watching for these guys but the Supreme Court decided about 30 years ago that they aren’t allowed to do that. Again, peoples, check your facts before you go off on here spouting your opinions that are based on total Horse Pucky OPINIONS. Read up a little, google Washington Law on DUI stops. Entrapment is a serious no-no. And before one of you goes off on me, no, I’m not a cop, just a person with a Master’s Degree in Criminal Law – received in WA State.
I wasn’t refering to any extra effort, just that for every officer there are hundred’s of lawyers waiting to tear them apart. Although with as many people I see leaving these dives every night, who were obviously drinking you’d think we’d have alot more DUI arrests.
Score one for the cops and one for us…. the people who live here and have these people protecting us. Thanks OSPD.
Phillip, That is what is known as “extra effort”. Good luck waiting for that.
It’s too bad police aren’t allowed to sit outside of bars so they can watch people stumble out, fumble with thier keys and drive off. On nights when there is absolutley nothing going on seems as though this would be a no brainer, but for some ridiculous reason they cannot. That place is a hole and should be closed.
I agree, wonderful job.
But please don’t stop here, what about the bar that over served both of these people? Has anyone contacted the Liquor Control Board?
I think the OSPD is going to get the Bank robber too, thanks to some good follow-up work. Nice extra effort, see if pays off.
Very proud of our police. I have no doubt this person will be brought to justice for what he did. Good work OSPD!
Well done OSPD!
Score one for the cops!