Abington Police Station

For my ethnographic project I have choose to step into the foreign world of the Abington Police Station. The Abington Police Station near the center of town across the street from Island Grove. I decided to pick this as my research site because I am a Criminal Justice major. Also, not that I am complaining or anything but I have never been in the police station before so I am curious to see what it is like on the inside. The station is fairly new and I think it will be very interesting to see all of the state of the art equipment that is in it. The station tries to get involved with the community by hosting a fishing derby each year. On the public access channel the police Chief Mjenski hosts a show to give the community an update about the different activities going on in town. Aside from the distant look I get at the police station as I drive by it every now and then, my knowledge does not even begin to scratch the surface of the inner workings of the station. All I really know is that from the outside it is HUGE and it looks way to big for the little town of Abington.

There are many things I would like to know about the Abington Police Station. First of all, I want to know what the inside of the police station looks like. My reasoning behind this vast curiosity is because I have had to listen to my parents complain about tax dollars paying for this station. I want to see what all the tax payers paid for. Also, I want to know what time of the day, year, and week the police station is the most busy. Is it on the weekends? at night? Or during the week in the middle of the day? What is the most common age of people being arrested, and what is the most common reason for being arrested? How does the dispatching work?  Was this new state of the art police station really necessary? This is just the beginning of the many topics I will dig deep into to be an insider of the Abington Police Station.

This is the Abington Police Website, check it out.