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Can we get some answers?

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RE: Can we get some answers?

December 11th, 2008 @ 5:44PM (15 years ago)

I actually do see what you are saying.

I am one of those officers who works MASSIVE amounts of off duty, and some of that off duty work requires a police car. I don't drive a nice POV, I don't own a plasma screen TV, and the t-shirt I'm wearing right now is ten years old. So, what do I spend all that money on your ask? I use it to put my kids through college, and absolutely nothing else.

You can call me a scab if you want to, but I honestly haven't decided whether or not I will keep the take home car. It's a little tough to choose between standing with my brothers and sisters, or paying my kid's tuition. I don't know what I'm going to do, but at least I have ten days to talk it over with my family and make a decision.

And by the way....Screw you Jerry, when you eventually kick the bucket I'm going to be dancing on your grave.

Commence the scab name calling in 3....2....1.....

RE: Can we get some answers?

December 11th, 2008 @ 7:53PM (15 years ago)

I am most definatly feeling your pain here brother, however I respectfully disagree. They (Mayor, Chief) seem to be making this as frightning as possible to officers who turn in their cars. The mayor obviously got the message that the cars would be turned in when he went fishing with his initial numbers. Testing, if you will, what the market would bear. When he got his answer, he simply cut the number to a more palatable number hoping to cause controversy. It has obviously worked. People who were previously commited are now rethinking the issue. I see we have 25 or 30 people on here ready to go, but far short of the last response we had the first time this came up. Then to put the nail in the coffin the Chief sends out a memo (threat) saying in effect "if you turn it in, there is no going back". Then he makes you drive down and officially kiss it goodbye. That is going to be hard pill to swallow for many. Kind of like getting a divorce, you may be misserable living with them, but it hard to commit to such a final change in your life all at once. So to get back to what you said, If this is such a winning deal for them, why are they making it so difficult for us to give them up? They only win if they can get officers to keep them and pay for them. We also all know that rate will continue to go up. What if we do never have a take home car program again? We know exactly what happens because the studies have been done over, and over, and over again. The city will lose in the end because the pool car system sucks. Let them lie in their beds. Who knows, maybe one day when the "mayor for life" is gone, they will fix what he broke.