To open line here at 106.7 K R OQ. All right, so we are together again happy to be so here on here Anyway, I'd like to say good morning to Commander Todd Rogers. Hello Morning. Thanks for having me you are a 26-year veteran Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Been here before you know the drill I Have and I appreciate you inviting me back Your sign to the field operations region two were you oversee Avalan now there's an assignment Compton that is a little bit different of assignment there Century South L.A. and West Hollywood stations Commander Rogers here. He's been involved in law enforcement for a while as a career began in 1985 when he attended the Sheriff's Training Academy and He has been working at the Carson Station as a deputy sergeant lieutenant and captain Previously assigned to Pico Rivera station, Lomita training bureau the cops bureau the regional community policing institute and Several custody assignments those must have been interesting Yeah, they were indeed every assignment was very interesting custody assignment is when they are the jailer they keep the inmates in line and that's we'll talk about that That's one of the big jobs of the Sheriff's Department. It's very different from your local police department the sheriff Has added responsibilities that you may not be aware of Crime stoppers Tell me a little bit about crime stoppers Well crime stoppers is something that's very near and dear to me when I got promoted to commander It was a project that the sheriff gave me to try to create this program and expand it countywide and Basically what it is is a anonymous crime tip reporting system It's been around for over 30 years or around 30 years around the Country and for some reason the LA region was really late in in adopting it but it's as I said an anonymous crime tip reporting system that allows people to give crime information to law enforcement in many different ways via telephone email text messaging and there's even mobile phone applications for it now and What's really unique about the system is that we use a third-party software which has encryption technology? That means when we get the tips from the tipsters there's no way we can trace it and there's no way we can identify Who the tipster is unless they want to tell us who they are and that helps? You know if we get subpoenas for tip records or whatever We can't produce them because they don't exist. So it's very secure that way and We launched this in Los Angeles County in 2009 and since and the the growth has been exponential We have 44 the 47 municipal agencies within the county are members of crime stoppers now And if you don't mind me going over a few statistics sure, please do Since inception we've received over 17,000 tips And as a result of those tips made over 900 arrests 939 to be exact We've recovered over 238,000 dollars in stolen property and seized about $3.7 million in drugs and what's really heartening for me is it keeps getting better and better as an example Just last month we had our best month ever with 792 tips 72 arrests 7800 dollars in property recovered and almost 18,000 dollars in drug seized We've solved 11 homicides We have a TV show on locally K-Cal channel 9 on Saturdays 11 30 p.m It called crime stoppers case files that profiles unsolved cases And it's something that that I'm also very excited about is we just forged a partnership with several corporate brand owners to deal with this issue of piracy and counter-fitting and I didn't realize that that was That's an 8 billion dollar a year problem for the state of California in terms of lost revenue And I've also found out that a lot of these Pirated and counterfeit products that are flooding the market are actually dangerous to consumers You know people think they're getting a great deal on on some drugs or cigarettes or whatever the issue might be but it actually contains very dangerous Chemicals and things that could do them a lot of harm And I've also been educated that the people doing this type of crime Our gang members organized criminals and and some of these folks are even supporting terrorism according to former homelands security secretary Tom Ridge so lots of things are going on with crime stoppers and and They're numerous success stories in terms of tips that have led to arrest and and it's something that we just really want to Promote Within the county for people to use if they don't if they want to remain anonymous and provide critical crime information to to law enforcement This is a great way to do it great Sounds interesting kind of people get more information I'd ask them to go to www.la crime stoppers.org and all the information I talked about is accessible there and all the instructions about how to to give us tips Sounds really good Anything in closing that we missed this morning? Nope, I would just encourage people to stay alert and do what they can to prevent themselves from being victims And if they need information about crime prevention contact their local sheriff station or police department and and they'll be there to help them Sheriff's are your friends. Yes, we are remember that all right K rock music in front of us