 About Us
Lewis & Clark High
School in Spokane still has the only C.O.P.S. Shop located in a high
school—and run by high schools students—in the country! It was
instigated in 2002 by the innovative, forward-thinking LC English
teacher, Lynn Bain, who had previously been a police officer.
Services
The first semester
in every school year, which starts in September, of course, is always a
little sparse of our most prized assets—our C.O.P.S. Shop interns. That’s
because the seniors have just graduated in June and left the juniors to
bear the torch until t he second semester when additional students,
having completed a semester of Criminal Justice, enter the ranks as
trainee interns.
Interns From
2006 - 2007 School
Year
Shown with Instructor
Mary Gillis (left), C.O.P.S. Director Christy Hamilton and C.O.P.S.
Board Member Jack Brucick (right)
Be that as it may,
current interns have found the amount of graffiti under the freeway,
where LC has its parking lots, much increased
from last year. Though we currently only have three or four interns,
they grab the bucket of gray paint and a couple wide paint brushes and
reclaim the parking lots for law-abiding people. They also assist the
security officer patrolling for safety issues among our 2000+
population. As our ranks increase at the end of January, so will our
patrolling area increase to beyond the walls of LC and into the
neighborhood.
Programs
Graffiti
Team, School Patrol, Crowd Guidance, Crime Scene
Investigation (pertaining to school grounds)
Projects
Fire Extinguisher
Checks, Shop Maintenance
Events
Food Drive for charity
Meetings
Last Friday of each
month at 11:00 a.m.
People
The volunteers at
Lewis and Clark C.O.P.S. are students. Their common cause
is helping the school neighborhood maintain and improve
their quality of life and safety.
C.O.P.S. Lewis and Clark Interns,
Ashley Owens and Deroice Solomon
Partnerships
Spokane Public Schools,
School Security Officer, C.O.P.S. Downtown
Fundraisers
Because the
Spokane School District has gone on a health-kick this year, we—at LC
C.O.P.S. Shop, can no longer fund our needs through biweekly donut sales.
We are currently wracking our brains for alternate means of providing an
income. So far, we haven’t come up with anything that has the
mouth-watering appeal of nice fresh donuts.
Newsletter
No newsletter is
produced at this time.
Annual Statistics
See the Spokane C.O.P.S. Annual Report. This report is available at all C.O.P.S. Substations.
Contact Us
Phone: Contact,
Mary Gilles, Advisor, at (509)
354-6941
E-mail:
marygi@spokaneschools.org
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