- Jul 7, 2003
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I'm not defending how some officers act. I thinking more and more now that police officers are like most jobs in the service type industry. In many service industry jobs you have 80% of the employees that are great and 20% of the employees are crappy. The 20% are the guys you hear about all the time because they are horrible, lack judgement, or got the job to irritate someone else.
In my current job, part of it is testing our employees on safety. If they operate safely then they get a ticket written basically saying goof job, you passed test a, test b, test c, test d while a manager was watching. If they do not operate safely they get a ticket saying you passed test a, test b, and test c but failed test d. For this they get a slap on the wrist and usually the manager will talk about the rule they failed to comply with.
We have a number of tests that we have to complete each month but do not have a quota for number of failures. The thing is that you have managers over you that will go to the areas that you are in charge of and find failures. If your managers find failures but you do not then it makes you look like you are not paying attention in the area that you are responsable for.
If an officer is in charge of 100 miles of interstate it would be a safe guess that at any given time there is at least 1 rule breaker on that 100 mile streatch. If the officer goes an entire month without any tickets written it looks like he never even went to his section of territory.
Edit: Point. Give these guys a break. They are not all bad. If you have specific examples, list them.
/flamesuit on
I'm not defending how some officers act. I thinking more and more now that police officers are like most jobs in the service type industry. In many service industry jobs you have 80% of the employees that are great and 20% of the employees are crappy. The 20% are the guys you hear about all the time because they are horrible, lack judgement, or got the job to irritate someone else.
In my current job, part of it is testing our employees on safety. If they operate safely then they get a ticket written basically saying goof job, you passed test a, test b, test c, test d while a manager was watching. If they do not operate safely they get a ticket saying you passed test a, test b, and test c but failed test d. For this they get a slap on the wrist and usually the manager will talk about the rule they failed to comply with.
We have a number of tests that we have to complete each month but do not have a quota for number of failures. The thing is that you have managers over you that will go to the areas that you are in charge of and find failures. If your managers find failures but you do not then it makes you look like you are not paying attention in the area that you are responsable for.
If an officer is in charge of 100 miles of interstate it would be a safe guess that at any given time there is at least 1 rule breaker on that 100 mile streatch. If the officer goes an entire month without any tickets written it looks like he never even went to his section of territory.
Edit: Point. Give these guys a break. They are not all bad. If you have specific examples, list them.
/flamesuit on
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