The Illinois sheriff’s deputy who gunned down Sonya Massey in her home last month is now listed as suspended on a statewide registry of officers who have been fired, forced to resign or had their law enforcement licenses revoked due to misconduct.
The suspension of former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson’s law enforcement certificate came only after he was fired and charged with murder.
I've seen in other professions where there is a profound dislike or even fear of firing a problem employee. Some companies will do almost anything to avoid an actual firing action - I've seen employees "encouraged to seek opportunity elsewhere", employees made eligible to take retirement early, employees given separation pay, employees given personal time off with expectation they'll find a different job, and one time the company actually paid for a hiring agency to find a certain person a new job.
ReplyDeleteI can understand wanting to avoid a scene, or avoid a potential lawsuit, or even just avoid extra paperwork. In all cases the employee has the opportunity to maintain a decent resume without having to explain getting fired. But in all cases it just transfers the problem person to another company. In private practice this is tolerated, but in public positions it should not be. I blame people in management who are complete pussies. In all fairness I probably should have been fired a time or two myself, but I always managed to hang on.
Orcs doing what orcs do. And the public is surprised? The orc is not your friend. Avoid the orc.
ReplyDeleteThey travel in hunter pods, where there's one, there's more.
DeleteOne solution: require officers to carry personal malpractice insurance, similar to doctors. Bad coos won't be able to afford insurance.
ReplyDeleteThey all carry professional liability insurance. After seeing some idiots in my department, I upped mine from $1 million to $2 million. Afraid I might get caught in their BS...DEI hires.
DeleteI wonder how many chiefs that hired him belong to this organization?
ReplyDelete“The shooting again underscores the critical need for police agencies to thoroughly vet potential hires,” the International Association of Chiefs of Police"
For all the talk of "wandering officers" I wonder if it's like private companies that have resign and we won't say bad things to future employers, or get fired and maybe have trouble getting another job. Why fire someone and then have to pay lawyers to fight lawsuits, or whether they should be eligible for unemployment checks.
All of my employers (at least since 1997) only have a 'will respond as would rehire, or not rehire' to any inquiries....to prevent them from getting sued by the bad grapes/crooked cops/fucking idiots.
DeleteThere is no situation so bad that can't be made worse by a cop
ReplyDeleteImmediate cancelation of all POST certifications and qualifications, loss of all tenure and a huge blackball of all offenders as well as requiring all to carry a minimum of a million dollar personal liability policy
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Require that any civil judgement be paid out of the officers pension fund. If active duty and retired cops suffer financially for the actions of bad actors, they will literally police their own.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why they call it The Blue Line. Its more like a blue cesspit.
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