Quotes by Larry Frazier

“As far as violence goes, school is school. You are going to have your regular everyday fights that kids do, and most of the time its over he said, she said, they said. But we really havent seen a real increase in violence. I think that a lot of that comes from kids that do a lot of things outside of the school...schools are no more unsafe than they were 10 years ago.”

“The program has really been successful. Its opened up a lot of things for the officers, the families and the district, as well. The main thing is our kids. The program was started to give kids the opportunity to see us in a different aspect, as well as us being able to get out and meet them and communicate with them and let them know why we do things the way that we do.”

“Well, we have never had a homicide here at school, thank goodness. We have had some of our kids go off campus and gotten killed. We had one of out student that was shot in a drive-by on U.S. 75, but really, we dont see that type of crime.”

“Your thefts, which are probably my biggest crime, then vandalism to cars or school desks or rooms. But what I call violent crimes like rape, murder, you dont see that inside our schools.”

“Youd be surprise what they tell us. I just got a deal the other day where I got a crime stopper tip where I ended up getting almost an ounce of pot, Thats almost $200 worth of hydro off a kid, because of a kid coming in and telling me. Its a good program, and I enjoy it.”

“I think that I have the best situation of any liaison officer because I have all type of children, not more than one. Im at about 53 to 47 [percent] in majority/minority. What I find is that our kids fight with each other, but nobody else fights with them. Its like, I can slap my brother, but you cant; its that type of situation.”

“These kids have grown up together, and they see that all races get along well together. We dont see any black on white, white on black, Hispanic on black. Most of ours is them fighting each other -- black on black, white on white, Hispanic on Hispanic -- more than we have any other. We dont have a lot of racial issues here.”

“I think that this is more real. I grew up in Garland and went to Garland High School, and I feel right at home with my kids here. I look at these kids like they are my kids. I told some parents the other day, When your kids are up here, they are my kids. That the way I feel about it.”

“I get back two times from what I give to the kids. You do start relationships with the young people that are lifelong.”

“In 87, Kelley Moore was an eighth-grader, and when I came in, I was a younger officer, and I became his big brother and everything that I did he thought was cool. I would just talk to him and hang out with him. Now, Kelley is a engineer with Channel 8, and he comes and gets me and takes me to lunch, and it has become a lifelong friendship.”