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Kentucky: Will they fly?Henry Cook doesn’t look like Bat-man, Spider-man, Wolverine, Dare-devil or any of the other superheroes in comic books or movies. He can’t see through walls, doesn’t drive a rocket car, can’t slice his opponents to bits with blades that come out of his forearms and definitely doesn’t wear tights.
Still, Cook, a Kentucky martial arts trainer and former member of the Jefferson County, Kentucky Police Department, does share something in common with the Caped Crusader and the rest of the Justice League: He wants to stop crime in his community. But instead of slinging a web or using the Batmobile, Cook is organizing Louisvillians to stand up and tell no-gooders that law-abiding citizens are not going to take it anymore.
With help from other volunteers, Cook is in the process of reforming the Night Hawks, a Kentucky community security watch of sorts that will tackle crime at its source and be a presence in local neighborhoods. Though the group fizzled after four years in 1986, Cook hopes that this time the Night Hawks idea will fly.
“I wish you could have seen this place when we started,” Cook said during a recent tour of the group’s new digs off Preston Highway. “We have done a lot of work.”
After he and his partner, Michael Robinson, nearly “drove themselves into the ground” trying to keep the Night Hawks running in the early ’80s, the group disbanded. Ever since, Cook says, “People have always asked me to get it started again.”
Cook started the Night Hawks after an acquaintance, Baerbel Poore, was brutally attacked and murdered in 1981 while working at the Checker gas station on Cane Run Road. Media accounts portrayed the community as uncaring about the crime.
“She was a good gal,” Cook said of Poore, who was robbed, raped, sodomized and murdered by Kevin Stanford, then 17, and an accomplice. “We were all upset about it, and we wanted to know who killed Babs.” Stanford is on Kentucky’s Death Row, though Gov. Paul Patton has said he will commute the death sentence.
While Kentucky police investigated Poore’s murder, Cook went to work trying to start a community safety team, which in 1982 became the Night Hawks.
After the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Cook said he started thinking about personal safety and toyed with recreating the Night Hawks. Months of research convinced him the group was needed now more than ever.
“There are more women getting battered today, or at least it is more pronounced,” Cook said.
Unlike the original Night Hawks, the recent version will have facilities where women and children can go to get away from abusive situations.
“We want a safe house, where these women can feel safe,” Cook said as he showed off the rooms. “It’s going to be cheery in here.”
The Night Hawks have received support from The Center for Women and Families, and the group will train Night Hawks staffers to deal with domestic abuse.
“We’ll provide that education to them,” said Lynnie Meyer, president of The Center for Women and Families. She also said it was her understanding the shelter would house more than just domestic battery victims.
“It is going to be a shelter for victims of crime, not just domestic cases,” she said.
The Night Hawks have already started working with women who are victims of abuse. Although the Kentucky program is in the early stages, Cook said he sees results.
“Our first case, she was so convinced the courts wouldn’t do anything,” Cook said. “We went to court with her and helped her along.”
Now, he added, the Night Hawks’ first victim is a volunteer, helping newcomers to the service.
Cook said the court system can benefit from outside assistance, but changes in the laws could help, too.
“I think what the courts need is to start some sort of zero tolerance policy,” he said.
Society also needs to address the problem, Cook quickly added. He said he was shocked at how few people he talked to took the issue of domestic violence seriously.
“That was something I was not prepared for,” Cook sighed. “We would talk to people and they would say things that surprised me.” While some men seemed unsympathetic, Cook said some of the women asked were also critical of the victims. “They asked why was I wasting my time,” Cook said. “They said, ‘She’ll just go back to him.’”
Overcoming that notion, and others, about community safety is the focus of the Night Hawks, Cook said. First, though, he must recruit — literally — an army of volunteers.
While members work to ready the domestic violence shelter and change an old school into a nest for the Night Hawks, Cook and others have begun training the first foot soldiers in a war on crime in some Louisville neighborhoods.
The primary presence of the Night Hawks will be the Special Operations Division, all of whom will be trained in a number of crime-prevention techniques, including hand-to-hand combat, citizens arrest guidelines, map reading and marksmanship.
Their training, Cook stressed, is merely a necessity of street safety. He disputes accusations that the Night Hawks are a vigilante group.
“The difference between us and a vigilante group is they execute justice, we don’t,” Cook said.
Training for the Night Hawks is focused on thwarting crime, not investigating it or replacing the authorities. “If a crime happens in front of us, we intervene,” Cook said.
To protect someone they are escorting or stave off an incident of domestic abuse, Cook said, the Night Hawks need to be able to defend themselves and others.
“If they can’t defend themselves, we will defend them,” Cook said of people unable to protect themselves from neighborhood violence. Only members of the group’s Special Operations A-Team will carry weapons in their duties providing “high levels of security for battered women, children who are at risk and other members of the community who are in danger of serious physical harm or death,” according to a Night Hawks guidebook.
Still, Cook said, the volunteers know their limitations.
“We tell them, ‘You are not police,’” he said.
Training is based on a military approach, he added, but it is focused on teaching members how to curb crime. A former Army Special Forces soldier instructs some of the classes. “This is strict training,” Cook said. “We do not tolerate people who will not follow the rules.”
Those members of the Night Hawks who gather information about neighborhood problem spots are always given specific instructions, Cook said. “Everybody that goes out gets operational orders. If the police need to know what they are doing, it is all spelled out in the orders.”
If a Night Hawk overreaches his or her authority, Cook said there would be repercussions. “One of the things I think that makes us successful is because we are strict,” Cook said.
The challenge, he admitted, will be in gaining the respect of the community and the police. He said he definitely sees a way for police to benefit from the Night Hawks hanging out on street corners.
“By being out in the community, we might be able to find things out,” Cook said.
All the Night Hawks are required to wear uniforms when they patrol, but the clothing was intentionally chosen to not look like police. Members of both the first and second Special Operations Divisions, which handle “hot spots,” wear black shirts, black fatigue pants, a black beret and black combat boots. Ranks will be identified by insignia pins. The lower unit responsible for neighborhood watches, called the Urban Rangers, wear gray shirts and pants with a green beret and black combat boots, with various rank insignia pins.
“Some people don’t like to talk to people in uniform,” Cook said. “We wanted something different.”
Organizers also hope to attract people who otherwise would not want to get involved in a crime watch group. Juveniles as young as 12 can join as intelligence agents, Cook said.
“We want to give them a positive way to funnel their activities,” he said. “It keeps them out of trouble. We need a way to deter kids from getting into crime in the first place.”
Elderly and even the wheelchair-bound also have a place in the Night Hawks, as spotters and information outlets.
“We want everyone to be involved,” Cook said.
By having a large network of volunteers, Cook said, he hopes to aid the authorities.
“City police have a lot going on,” he said. “Maybe they could train the Night Hawks to act as crossing guards at schools or provide security at concerts, so they can be out doing what they are supposed to do.”
Don’t step into the blue
Replacing police in any capacity is not likely, said metro police spokeswoman Helene Kramer.
“You can’t hire freelancers,” she said.
The department has made efforts in becoming partners with the community, Kramer said. “We can’t do it without them,” she noted.
Still, it is important for any group to work within the framework of acceptable community standards. According to police, the jury is still out on the Night Hawks. Kramer questioned whether the members will be adequately trained to deal with some of the problems they say they will confront.
“They are trained, but trained by whom?” she said. “My husband taught me to play golf, but that doesn’t mean I’m good at it.”
Kramer said the training police receive before hitting the streets cannot be duplicated by either ex-military or martial arts masters. “It is specially designed,” she said.
Neither the Night Hawks nor police has ever sat down to discuss what role the group can play in public safety. “I don’t think we’ve ever been approached,” Kramer said. “There are a lot of questions about this.”
Maj. Jay Pierce, commander of the police department’s Baker District, said while he hopes the group can be an asset, he’s concerned about possible deficiencies in their training and mission. “Do the police need more eyes and ears out there?” Pierce said. “Sure. Do we think this group will be that? We don’t know.”
Problems for the police and the Night Hawks could arise if members of the group overstep the bounds of regular crime prevention and try to intercede, Pierce said. “The problem lies in knowing there is a difference between felonies and misdemeanors,” he said. Citizens can detain someone if they commit a felony, Pierce said, but not a misdemeanor. Sometimes, he continued, the distinction can be difficult to judge. “We’re encouraging people to watch out for crime as much as possible,” Pierce said. “But if it goes beyond that, I am concerned. I can see pitfalls.”
Among the hurdles Pierce listed were legal issues surrounding the group’s right to detain suspected criminals. “I can see people trying to prosecute” the Night Hawks, he said. Though the police are schooled in law enforcement, Pierce said, even they are second-guessed about their responses to situations. The probability is much greater for a group like the Night Hawks. “It’s a very touchy subject,” he said.
Pierce had other worries, too. “Among my concerns is their safety,” he said.
For those who seriously want to be an asset to their community, Pierce had another suggestion. “If they are committed to this, then I encourage them to join the police department.”
No matter what the group aspires to contribute to public safety, Pierce said neither the Night Hawks nor police would have the final say. “The biggest test is how they will be perceived by the public,” he said.
Seeing is believing
Without witnessing the Night Hawks in action, business leaders in the Okolona area, where Cook said he hopes to have some patrols by Christmas season, remain undecided. Some like the idea, while others say there is reason for caution.
“When you get individuals who really don’t have any authority, but think they do, it can be a problem,” explained Wilma Barrett, owner of A Head of the Times hair salon on Preston Highway near Southern High School.
After 14 years in business, Barrett said, she has had only one brush with crime, when the glass in her door was broken a few months ago. A neighborhood watch could make some people in the area feel safer. “I don’t think it would hurt anywhere,” she said, “so this could go either way. I guess we’ll have to see it in action.”
Terry Embry, owner of the Okolona Flea Market, said if the group serves as an addition to, and not a substitution for, the police, it could find a niche. “I think it could be good idea, especially around the holidays,” Embry said.
During the holidays, he said the likelihood for crime increases along the Outer Loop and Preston Highway corridor. “Parking lots are risky,” Embry said. “It’s a question of who is going to break into your trunk.”
Although his business sits off Preston and is guarded by a security system and gate, Embry said the presence of more crime watchers in the area certainly couldn’t hurt. “If it’s like a block watch, they are having those all over the place anyway,” he said. “If they work with the police, it might work.”
The crucial element, Embry added, is that the Night Hawks work to communicate with residents. “You can have all the training in the world, but if you don’t know how to work with the public, it won’t work,” he said.
For some businesses, having dialogue in the neighborhood will be a change. Tracie Henry, the new manager of the Once Upon a Child consignment store on Outer Loop, said she has not discussed safety with other storeowners. While she does share info with Plato’s Closet next door because they have the same owner, Henry said safety is not a big topic of discussion among shops. While she said she would not be opposed to a patrol group like the Night Hawks, Henry said she thinks their role might be limited. “The only way it could help is if they were here when something happened,” she said.
Most every store has some minor problems with theft, Henry said, but in-store security and staff are trying to correct that constantly. An outside group would not mean they would do less, Henry added. “It wouldn’t bother me, and we would take the same precautions we do now.”
Before the public sees the Night Hawks keep watch, officials with the group are still fine-tuning the details. Kevin Delahanty, a board member of the Night Hawks and Jefferson County district court judge, said some things about the group’s focus are still under consideration.
To start correctly, Delahanty said he is reviewing all the Night Hawks’ literature to make sure the group is not overstepping its bounds. “My goal is to ensure this group works within the law,” he said.
Delahanty said he doesn’t think the group will undermine the police. “Any time neighbors band together, it’s a positive,” he said. “They are almost like a neighborhood block watch, and as long as they work with the police, it can be a good thing.”
Delahanty said he is not concerned that the Night Hawks will ever turn into a vigilante group. “It is very well-organized, and Cook is a tremendous guy and he really has laudable goals.”
One crucial first step the Night Hawks will take is to establish themselves with the communities they serve, Delahanty said. “We must move from neighborhood to neighborhood and make contact with the residents,” he said. “That will deter more crime than any effort to stop crime when it happens.”
The presence of the Night Hawks will be more important than any hand-to-hand combat training, Delahanty said. The training is merely a component that members will need for defense. “Hopefully, they will never have to use it.”
Delahanty said the Night Hawks need to make sure nobody overreacts. “You don’t want a vigilante group. We don’t want a vigilante group,” he said. “You don’t want anybody abusing even perceived power. … I don’t think anybody should put on a uniform and police a neighborhood.”
Still, Delahanty said he sees value in showing criminals that citizens are watching. Plus, he added, it is helpful to teach youngsters that the drug and crime lifestyle is not the answer. “Any time you can go into a community and give them an opportunity other than to join a gang, that’s a positive.”
Even if Cook fails at his goal to have 2,000 Night Hawks walking Louisville’s streets, Delahanty said his example is one others can look to. “He is somebody you can respect,” the judge said.
With his post on the board, Delahanty said he hopes to guide the group into its place in local safety. From the beginning, the judge said he knew that Cook didn’t intend to replace the police.
“Police don’t want people involved in their investigations,” Delahanty said. “I don’t think the Night Hawks will be doing that.”
Louisville could benefit from a new focus on neighborhood safety, he said. “I don’t think there can be a big negative unless there are people in the group who work against the goal,” the judge said. “And that’s not going to happen.”
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