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The dirty little secret in suppressing crime

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The dirty little secret in suppressing crime

June 15th, 2007 @ 1:59AM (17 years ago)

We need to rethink the whole college requirement thing. It is BS. As the above person posted the degree may be meaningless to law enforcement. I know mine was, it has no relationship whatsoever to police work, but it was what I studied at the time. Hard work and real life experiences are more important than the fictitious belief that college graduates know more than everyone else.

Another person posted that the college diploma is the equivalent of the high school diploma of before. Do you know why? The government stepped in and started dumbing down the schools. Instead of teaching little Johnny to read they taught him that he was abused, neglected and misunderstood. They taught him that he was a victim of society and that they would give him things and magic drugs to make him feel better. They gave him housing and food stamps and told him he didn't have to work.

Little Johnny soon got tired of the pittance the government gave him when he saw he could be making more selling crack and robbing people. When little Johnny was caught at a young age they tried to rehabilitate him using the same methods they passed him through high school not being able to read and write and do simple math. They appealed to his better nature. Little Johnny cried a few tears and then was given probation. Little Johnny has never had to work except when he was working the system.

Now we are telling everyone that the secondary education you received is worthless that only post secondary work will be worthwhile. The catholic high school that my parents struggled to send me though taught me (along with them) values and principles and many important things. They didn't feel sorry for me if I didn't do my homework, I got detention and still had to do the work. They gave me penalties for failure and rewarded my hard work with real letter grades and a diploma at the end.

I moved on and went to college and found that I was in class with people that could not read or write. I was dumbfounded. How did they get a diploma? I busted my butt to get one and apparently they just sat on theirs.

Education is wasted on the young.

The dirty little secret in suppressing crime

June 12th, 2007 @ 6:55PM (17 years ago)

Looks like Portland Oregan is going through the same thing we are going through. This departments hiring standards are a JOKE. You don't need college to do this job. I don't blame most kids for not wanting to be police officers. The media has drug us through the mud time and time again. Plus who wants to work for DUMB(White) and DUMBER(Abramson). It's time we lowered are hiring standards. There are plenty of good applicants who don't have college or military. If you want my opinion both are worthless to this job. This isn't an office and we don't do things the way the military does other than MP's. We just need kids with a good head on their shoulders and common sense. F**K all this book smart **** it is usless on the streets.

The dirty little secret in suppressing crime

June 13th, 2007 @ 2:31AM (17 years ago)

If city leaders really wanted the police to change their behavior, it would be simple to do. The mayor could simply make clear to the police chief that he wants officers to avoid deadly force at all costs. He could demand that officers be trained to approach all situations in a non-confrontational manner and to retreat when faced with potential violence.

Part of this has already been done. The "NO PURSUIT" policy has been recognized by criminals and they understand that they police generally won't chase them.

The Criminals also realize that the Police are hampered by a liberal media and Chief and Mayor that would rather fire an Officer and battle it out in court rather than having the balls to back the Officer and tell the community that tough ***** criminals if you commit a crime in our town you will be dealt with with force.

The dirty little secret in suppressing crime

June 13th, 2007 @ 2:56AM (17 years ago)

Several years ago Chief White decided to institute a policy that many departments have tried by demanding that the applicants have a mimimum requirement of 60 college credit hours of several years of Military Service in order to be eligible.

This concept was lauded as being a heroic change from hiring the knuckle draggers of the 60's. 70's and 80's. The idea that a better educated Officer would Police better and be a better person appealed to the liberal media. ( I don't know about you but college was a goal driven exercise in learning something quickly to pass an exam, not something that gave me life experiences.) The idea that better educated people wouldn't be prone to violence and therefore save the city money in the longrun on lawsuits was one that if they had bothered to talk to an accounting major rather than a poly-psi major they would have understood that the left hand column must balance with the right hand column. All the well wishes and hope that because I want it to everything will turn out hunky dory, is typical of tiday's liberals.

What they failed to realize is that yes education is useful and an asset, but that we are generally dealing with people that don't give a damn about whether you have a sheepskin or not, but on whether or not you have the gonads and the ability to take them down after you have cought them robbing, raping, stealing etc...

Another problem is that after I achieve my goal and get my sheepsking I have to pay off all my student loans. Sould I:

A: take the lower paying Police job with high risks, which will take me years on a menial salary to pay them back

B: Apply my degree to a higher paying job?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

There should be an incentive to hire those with college hours, maybe even a bonus, but don't limit yourself by ruling our someone that has not met the magic "60 hours" goal. What does 60 hours of underwater baskertweaving have to do with anything?

Our beloved mayor of the large cranium says he will put more police on the streets this year. WHAT A BIG FAT LIE!

Jerry carries almost 100 vacancy credits on the police department, that is positions that are already paid for in the budget. That equates to about $250,000.00 a month that he is diverting to other agencies and programs. LMPD is barely getting enough people to hire becaue of the stringent requirements tha the college hours are costing us.

We are starting a new class this week. It will be 32 weeks before they hit the streets.

We are turning out about 50 people a year. We are retiring 80-100. Why? Why Not?

Why should I stay and work for an ungrateful master that will turn his back on me? Why should I stay and work for a system that is so confused that it contradicts itself daily and basis its policies not on common sense but on popular liberal tripe.

The dirty little secret in suppressing crime

June 13th, 2007 @ 6:10PM (17 years ago)

A college degree is nice to have if you plan on doing something after your law enforcement career. However they are not essential to this job. As stated before all you need is a clear head, the ability to not take things personally, and common sense. If you can master those 3 things chances are you will make a decent cop. I will never understand how someone with a meteorology degree is better suited than someone without a degree but who is a hard worker. Are we listing weather predictions on our reports now? ;-)