Police behaving badly
- Thread starter NovaSaber
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So, I'm at a local jail now. Not where I wanted to be, but you play the cards you're dealt till the next hand.
I was supposed to have a month of training. In booking, writing bonds, procedure. As well as the day to day running of the jail and dealing with incarcerated.
In week 2, I'd been there literally 7 days, I got called for mandatory Overtime. We had a covid breakout and the jail just doesn't have the people to cover.
So it's been a month or so. I can do the cooking, the cleaning, and generally keep things going. What I can't do is correctly fill out a bond, remember all the things in the booking software, or do the important paperwork. I try, but I'm on nights with no supervisor. The other two I work with have been there 1 week longer than me and 2 months longer. That's it. Both are 20 year old girls.
No one there except me and the sergeant, who works weekday mornings only, has any self defense training. My first day I trained people how to use the restraint chair properly.
When we do make mistakes on the paperwork, our corporal marks them in red ink, puts them in our box with a note saying, "try again and resubmit for regrading". Like we're in school.
No, cops aren't fully trained. Deputies aren't fully trained. We're not trained in de escalation. It's all 'seat of your pants' flying.
I was supposed to have a month of training. In booking, writing bonds, procedure. As well as the day to day running of the jail and dealing with incarcerated.
In week 2, I'd been there literally 7 days, I got called for mandatory Overtime. We had a covid breakout and the jail just doesn't have the people to cover.
So it's been a month or so. I can do the cooking, the cleaning, and generally keep things going. What I can't do is correctly fill out a bond, remember all the things in the booking software, or do the important paperwork. I try, but I'm on nights with no supervisor. The other two I work with have been there 1 week longer than me and 2 months longer. That's it. Both are 20 year old girls.
No one there except me and the sergeant, who works weekday mornings only, has any self defense training. My first day I trained people how to use the restraint chair properly.
When we do make mistakes on the paperwork, our corporal marks them in red ink, puts them in our box with a note saying, "try again and resubmit for regrading". Like we're in school.
No, cops aren't fully trained. Deputies aren't fully trained. We're not trained in de escalation. It's all 'seat of your pants' flying.
Better brush up on your studies of "Law and Order" reruns then, m'laddo...
They enjoy learning how the police catches criminals, and thus how to avoid making the same mistakes!
Protesters against the monarchy have been using blank banners to avoid being arrested, but are still being arrested. Because it’s Britain, where we’re living in a slightly less authoritarian dystopia than Putin’s Russia.
San Francisco sued by woman who says her rape-kit DNA was used to arrest her.
(Source: - https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/getty-sf-police-chief-800x533.jpg )
The source is a single image of a masked cop?
That image has been a very reliable source for this sort of info.
Why are cops who are at best negligent always put on paid leave when they screw up in a way that gets someone hurt?
And isn't parking a car on train tracks definitively illegal anyway?
lawandcrime.com
And isn't parking a car on train tracks definitively illegal anyway?
Train Hit Patrol Vehicle After Cops Left Detained Woman Inside, Parked on Tracks: Authorities
Cops allegedly left a female suspect inside a patrol vehicle that one of them parked on train tracks -- a train struck it.
lawandcrime.com
"Officer Snidely Whiplash was placed on paid leave pending an investigation."
Unions.
Pretty much. Police unions are why so many bad cops get to keep being bad cops for so long.
I'm all for unions, don't get me wrong. Having a decent one would have meant I could have kept my day job, but police unions are geared more for protecting the bad apples then anything else.