As someone once said "pointing to the mud on someone else's fins does not improve your own swimming."
That someone was Dries Gloton in Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard.
As someone once said "pointing to the mud on someone else's fins does not improve your own swimming."
Tubee, tell you what, tell my department I don't have to take police action 24/7 regardless of my duty status and I will agree with you. Until such time please do not opine when you are mistaken in your assertion.
This Police bashing is getting tiresome.
How fast would CCW restrictions relax for the rest of us, if the police exemptions were done away with, meaning CCW in restaurants, schools, crossing state lines, etc. Why doesn't the NRA go after the police exemptions so that we all end up on the same page?
You're fairly well paid for doing it,
HR218 did not increase freedom by one iota. It extended a privilege that a few people have based solely on their status as government employees.I was against H.R.218 for the very same reasons I am against the Feds legislating national reciprocity. There is no Constitutional authority.
Isn't more freedom a good thing?
My answer is yes. The number of off duty arrests is miniscule anyway.Do we want officers who are not on the official clock to be specifically instructed to take no action as an officer when not on the clock, even if not mandate to do such. So they would have no arrest powers if not on the clock?
I don't know if that is a good average, but around here its pretty typical. But I don't know that mere HS is typical anymore. most rpefer at least a 2 year degree or military experience.$45k for a 20-24 yr old high school grad ain't bad either.
Like any other job, you have to want to do it to be any good at it.I don't think I'd make a good cop.
most rpefer at least a 2 year degree or military experience.
My answer is yes. The number of off duty arrests is miniscule anyway.
If it was me, they would leave their badge at the station house when they go off duty, and would pick it back up when they go back on duty, just like their radio, and squad car. I do realize this might have some logistical issues that make it impractical.
When you're not at work, you're not a cop. When I'm not at work, I'm not an engineer.
Your job does not make you special.
No, it is not that simple. As a general rule, when the LEO is not at work he is still under the control and authority of his agency, and still has an obligation to perform his job under certain circumstances. Many states still mandate that a LEO is considered to be on duty 24/7, as do many agency SOPs. The job doesn't make you special, but the job itself is special in the requirements it has and the duties it imposes on the person who takes the job.When you're not at work, you're not a cop. When I'm not at work, I'm not an engineer.
Your job does not make you special.
It's just that simple.
When you're not at work, you're not a cop. When I'm not at work, I'm not an engineer.
That pretty much sums it up. We get the "right" because we have the added responsibility.In cases like that I see the carrying a badge and gun 24/7 not so much as an extra right, but more like an added responsibility.
Sounds like Ibob flunked the "hello test" once too often.
If you are required to be on duty at all times,
and required to perform the functions of your job at all times, then you should be paid 24/7/365.
The dude at Mickey D's isn't required to make me a hamburger if I'm hungry. Cops should not be required to be cops when they're off the clock.
Working is a very, very simple business arrangement. I'm trading you my time for your money. If I ain't getting paid, you ain't getting any work.