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Re: Our City Police
The cops in my town are by and large idiots. It disgusts me that they can get that job without at least an Associates Degree (my hometown required a Bachelors or equivalent Military experience) or without going to the Academy. They make beyond stupid decisions that makes a defense lawyer's job a lot of fun to say the least. I'd like to believe these idiots make a difference, but the reality is they are the exact person described in Harold & Kumar during that rant.Comment
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He is from Maryland and works in West Virginia now and never seen a cop act like that in his life.
I have known "bad" cops, but they are few and far between when you look at how many are serving (you know, the ones who quietly do their work everyday, protect and serve, and you never hear much about them, unless they wake up on the wrong side of bed). As a field training officer I had to weed out bad candidates who had put their time in the academy and just couldn't hack what went on in the streets. It could be they just didn't have the personality, the communication skills, lack of command presence, whatever. I can't tell you how many officers have applied (after the academy) and been turned down for employment, couldn't pass the psych test, medical, background check, or oral interview.
It is a job that can make you cynical. You deal with problems in your 8/10/12/15 hour shifts non-stop. We don't go after a kid throwing snowballs at cars we get a complaint, we do, we get a complaint. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. I do know that the guys/gals I served with ran into alleys that everyone else was running out of.Comment
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Re: Our City Police
The cops in my town are by and large idiots. It disgusts me that they can get that job without at least an Associates Degree (my hometown required a Bachelors or equivalent Military experience) or without going to the Academy. They make beyond stupid decisions that makes a defense lawyer's job a lot of fun to say the least. I'd like to believe these idiots make a difference, but the reality is they are the exact person described in Harold & Kumar during that rant.
They have dumbed down hiring practices for police, that's for sure. I know Washington State requires an AA, but with EEO rules they've made many things that weren't acceptable in the past okay for hire now, including prior drug use, prior crimes (misdemeanors).Comment
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Western Massachusetts. They will hire you, make sure you are worthwhile and then send you to the academy after like 6-12 months on the force. Which means, you have some idiots out there barely out of HS as cops, which leads to lots of stupid issues and tons of stuff gets thrown out that shouldn't be. Partially because they are so bad, I didn't go the DA route in law school.Comment
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Our PD has a dark maroon dodge charger that was taken on a drug bust. It's marked but with black letters so you cannot tell it's a police car.Comment
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Western Massachusetts. They will hire you, make sure you are worthwhile and then send you to the academy after like 6-12 months on the force. Which means, you have some idiots out there barely out of HS as cops, which leads to lots of stupid issues and tons of stuff gets thrown out that shouldn't be. Partially because they are so bad, I didn't go the DA route in law school.
In the academies (most of them) you can flunk a test and retake the test. If you flunkthe re-test, you're gone, no ifs/ands/buts. That's how strict they are. We were tested every Wednesday night for a year (I went to the extended academy Mon., Tue., Wed., Thurs. nights and all day Saturday). There was a TON of home study you had to do.
Good luck Western Massachusetts.Comment
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I just don't understand this. Hire you as a cop, no training, no academy to see if you can make it? I wonder what they base their decisions on? I'm surprised they can get away with this. The liability for the cities who do this is, well....this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I would hate to be a cop that had one of these people that I had to baby sit during patrol. Geez, the things you have to learn just for officer safety issues has to be repeated over and over again in an academy. And I gotta look over my shoulder to make sure an untrained rookie is doing what he/she is supposed to do? Yikes!
In the academies (most of them) you can flunk a test and retake the test. If you flunkthe re-test, you're gone, no ifs/ands/buts. That's how strict they are. We were tested every Wednesday night for a year (I went to the extended academy Mon., Tue., Wed., Thurs. nights and all day Saturday). There was a TON of home study you had to do.
Good luck Western Massachusetts....the city, county or whatever it is may have given them police powers(stupidly I might add)...but if you are saying that they are putting civilians out on the street...with weapons....with the ability to arrest someone(by themselves) WITHOUT sending them to a police academy for formal training, please don't group them with police PROFESSIONALS.
Ridiculous.
They can call them whatever they like to justify some budget numbers...but not police officers IMO.
M.K.
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I know each state is different, but I always thought certification of cops (attending a police academy) was required for a city for legal purposes/liability, etc.
I know there are state standards for requirements that have to be met by agencies and they are pretty tight about following those, or the state comes down on them heavy, at least here in California.Comment
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I just don't understand this. Hire you as a cop, no training, no academy to see if you can make it? I wonder what they base their decisions on? I'm surprised they can get away with this. The liability for the cities who do this is, well....this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. I would hate to be a cop that had one of these people that I had to baby sit during patrol. Geez, the things you have to learn just for officer safety issues has to be repeated over and over again in an academy. And I gotta look over my shoulder to make sure an untrained rookie is doing what he/she is supposed to do? Yikes!
In the academies (most of them) you can flunk a test and retake the test. If you flunkthe re-test, you're gone, no ifs/ands/buts. That's how strict they are. We were tested every Wednesday night for a year (I went to the extended academy Mon., Tue., Wed., Thurs. nights and all day Saturday). There was a TON of home study you had to do.
Good luck Western Massachusetts.Comment
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So far it's 300+ to 1 in favor of Taser.
In June of 2008, a lawsuit against Taser was succesfully argued for the first time.
Lawyers find the strangest things to get tingly about. No wonder why everyone wants to test a Taser on them:wink:
M.K.
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