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From YouTube: Inside Boulder News - January 11, 2013
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This week on Inside Boulder News: Police chief discusses controversial elk shooting, area schools emphasize safety, wildlife officials respond to coyote aggression and the community prepares to pay tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
A
Welcome
to
inside
Boulder
news,
I'm
natalie
wood.
The
recent
killing
of
a
bull
elk
on
Mapleton
hill
by
a
boulder
police
officer
has
raised
questions
from
the
community
about
how
the
police
department
handles
such
cases.
Inside
Boulder
News
spoke
with
boulder
police
chief
mark
Beckner
about
the
shooting
the
process
for
determining
if
criminal
charges
are
warranted
and
his
department's
internal
investigation
plans.
There.
C
Are
actually
two
investigations
going
on?
One
is
the
criminal
investigation
which
is
being
handled
by
the
division
of
Parks
and
Wildlife
from
the
state
of
Colorado,
and
then
the
personnel
investigation
which
is
being
handled
internally
by
the
border
police
department
and
the
difference
being
that
the
Division
of
Wildlife
is
going
to
investigate
whether
there
were
any
criminal
violations
involved
in
the
actions
of
the
officers
and
then
we
will
be
investigating
whether
there
were
any
violations
of
any
of
our
rules,
policies
and
procedures.
C
I
would
tell
the
community
that
we
have
the
same
concerns
that
they
do.
Obviously
we
see
the
same
things
they
do
and-
and
we
can
make
some
assumptions
based
on
what
we
know,
but
we
don't
base
decisions
on
assumptions.
We
have
to
have
facts
and
evidence,
and
so
that's
why
there
has
to
be
an
investigation
and
the
public
just
has
to
allow
that
process
to
work,
everybody's
innocent
until
proven
guilty,
and
we
have
due
process
that's
involved
in
any
personnel
investigation
and
we
have
to
follow
those
steps.
A.
A
Decision
about
whether
the
officers
involved
will
face
criminal
charges
fected
within
the
next
week.
Kids
are
back
in
class
following
winter
break
and
the
boulder
valley
school
district
is
doing
everything
possible
to
make
sure
students
feel
safe
in
school.
Here's
a
look
at
be
VSD
safety
procedures
and
the
district's
response
to
questions
raised
by
the
mass
elementary
school
shooting
in
Connecticut
research
shows
that
school
is
a
safe
place
for
kids.
The.
D
A
D
Do
have
security
procedures
in
place
in
schools,
and
we
had
a
750
thousand
dollar
grant
from
the
federal
government
to
develop
a
security
procedure
in
to
train
our
administrators
in,
what's
called
nims
an
acronym
for
the
National
Incident
Management
System,
and
it's
the
way
you
handle
a
disaster
or
crisis
in
a
school,
whether
its
natural
or
man-made.
We
have
a
great
school
resource
officer
program
that
we
coordinate
and
those
SROs
spend
most
of
their
time
in
the
high
schools.
The.
A
E
Knows
better:
what's
going
on
in
the
school
and
the
students,
no
one
person
can
know
everything
that
happens
in
a
school
so
through
working
with
the
community
working
with
the
school
getting
to
know
everybody
all
the
players
and
building
a
trust
and
a
trusting
relationship
with
them
was
the
best
way
to
learn.
What's
going
on
who's,
doing
what
who's
doing
the
bad
things
who's
doing
the
good
things
to
you
having.
E
The
presence
there
of
knowing
that
there's
the
trained
law
enforcement
officer
on
site
to
help
protect
everybody
and
to
do
our
part
and
to
make
sure
everybody
stays
safe.
Like
is
parked.
You
know
right
up
by
the
school,
so
most
people
that
come
in,
at
least
through
the
interest
that
I
use,
will
see
a
police
car
they're.
All
the
students
are
aware
there
was
a
police
officer
in
the
school
I.
Think
the
community
as
a
whole
is
aware
that
there
are
police
officers
in
their
school
PVS.
D
Participate
in
the
safe
detail
program,
which
is
a
state
program
that
allows
a
student
who
wants
to
discuss
or
report
about
an
incident
but
and
yet
remain
anonymous
to
phone
in
the
information
on
the
safe
to
tell
line,
and
then
that
information
is
funneled
back
without
any
identifying
information
about
the
student.
It's
funneled
back
to
local
law
enforcement
and
into
school
district
security,
and
we
act
on
those.
These.
A
D
A
A
Open
space
Rangers
are
stepping
up
foot
patrols
in
east
boulder.
In
the
wake
of
recent
reports
of
coyote
aggression.
Over
the
past
three
weeks,
there
have
been
six
reports
of
coyotes
menacing
people
on
the
eastern
portion
of
the
boulder
creek
path,
including
one
attack
in
which
a
jogger
was
bitten
in
the
lake
for.
F
What
we're
trying
to
do
now
is
get
some
staff
and
folks
out
into
the
area
and
sort
of
retrain
those
coyotes,
so
have
people
out
on
a
daily
basis
that
if
they
see
what
we're
calling
this
habituated
behavior,
where
coyotes
are
getting
too
close
to
people,
they
can
chase
them
and
pursue
them
out
of
the
area.
City.
A
Staff
is
working
with
Colorado,
Parks
and
Wildlife
this
week
to
develop
a
specific
and
collaborative
plan
to
address
the
recent
series
of
human
coyote
conflicts.
Boulder
is
celebrating
the
life
and
work
of
Martin
Luther
King
jr.,
with
four
days
of
events
from
film
screenings
and
music
to
a
guest
speaker
that
worked
with
dr.
King.
You
won't
want
to
miss
this
year's
celebration
in
Boulder
this
year.
G
Marks
the
84th
anniversary
of
Martin
Luther
King's
birthday,
so
Boulder
joins
the
nation
in
paying
tribute
to
his
life
and
dreams.
So
this
year
we
have
a
series
of
four
days
of
events
that
start
on
Saturday
January
12th
and
run
through
Thursday
January
24th.
We
have
the
opportunity
to
bring
as
our
keynote
speaker
this
year,
Reverend
James
Peters,
who
actually
worked
with
Martin
Luther
King.
So
he
will
talk
about
his
experience
and
how
he's
continued
in
Martin,
Luther,
King
Junior's
message
throughout
the
years.
The.
A
Martin
luther
king
jr.
celebrations
start
this
Saturday
with
a
slideshow
in
the
main
library
check
out
Boulder
Colorado
gov
for
information
on
the
events,
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