Best Officers are Co's

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CO'S + DCJ + TGK X 39'S = MIERDA!

In my experience, COs seem to take a certain perverse pleasure in watching "da Poh-leece" squirm and practically beg for the facility to just OPEN THE GATE AND TAKE THE 39. You know why? I've said it before, COs identify with the 39s. How many times have you brought a 39 into the facility e.g. DCJ and TGK, and seen one of these COs say "Yo wassup man whatdeydo" not to the PO, but to the criminal you just spent the last hour or so with? You know why? Because most of you COs are a bunch of 40-over Alphas (ask a PO if you don't know what that means you GED losers).
Listen COs, just because you work in a filthy, disgusting jail that smells of urine, clorox, and vomit, don't let these environmental factors determine YOUR behavior. Your F-the "Poh-leece" attitude is obvious. You hate us. You're stuck in a jail with a bunch of filthy trash. We get a (take home) car, better pay, more respect, so just admit it already...HATE-O-RADE, is it in you?
In your case COs, it is. In you. So screw you. Do your goddam job and quit hatin'.

AMEN...

Hey brother not ALL COs are what you descibe them as being. Some are professional and take the job seriously. I do agree if you have experience in Corrections most of the times you make a better PO than a person that has no experience in dealing or handling people. The same goes for POs, there are some of you out there that do not have a clue. Put a PO in a cell fight when your out numbered 3 COs to 10-15 39s. In my time ther was no such thing as pepper spray, diffinetly no weapons just your "meat hooks" ready to fight! :evil: Next time think before you speak, don't judge ALL COs as being the same.

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I am proud to say I worked at SFRC for 6 years and have been a PO for the last 14, being a CO taught me how to deal with people with only a radio on my belt. I had as many as 128 inmates in my dorm running around and I had animals that where benching up to 525lbs, with a life sentence. My most powerful weapons were my PEN and Brain and I could use both very well. Using my head I got myself out of some life threatening situations and the fact that inmates knew that I could write one hell of a disciplinary report kept them inline in my dorms. My experiance as a CO has made me a better PO. Most of the PO's in my Dept are former CO's. Every PO should have to work in a jail before hitting the road. The only issue I have with corrections now as compared to then is the lack of professionalism and the corruption that has infected the jail and prisons. I have alot of CI's that are on the street, county state and federal jails and it seems every other inmate at TGK,DCJ,MW has a cell phone or PSP not to mention any drug, all brought in by a dirty CO. The sad part is, other CO's know who's doing it and dont do anything about it. THERE IS NO DOLLAR AMOUNT WORTH YOUR FREEDOM. There is no better way the get a sentence reduction for an inmate than to throw a dirty LEO under the bus! look what happened to those BSO guys, they are done. For those dirty CO's that read this the next inmate you bring a cell phone in for could be working for me, its a matter of time

Excellent and balanced summary of the positive effects that being a correctional can have on being a police officer, As well as the current negative culture that "lazy rude" CO's have created. Being a CO forces you to develop people skills and become able to relate to people of all cultures and economic statuses. As CO's we have to use our people skills to deal with situations, we have to negotiate things to maintain order. We do not have the option of simply pulling out a gun or other weapon to get order by force.

However, as a CO myself I can tell you that the words lazy and rude DO NOT apply to all of us! I and many of my associates have a very high work ethic and get the job done. As with any emergency response job, police, fire rescue, or corrections, we get paid for running toward danger not the other way around! So no danger equals more down time which adds to the perception of laziness.

Also it cannot be ignored that there are many PO's who are unworthy of wearing their uniform as well so I would encourage all to remain balanced in their assessment.

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This is the type of post that continues the pervasive sibling rivalry between LEO's and CO's. I am a CO by trade and I love it, I have never had an intention to go on the road. There are things LEO's do, that we wouldn't want to do and there are things that CO's do that LEO's wouldn't want to do. To insinuate that LEO's are not effective in use of force situations because they rely on a firearm is ridiculous and unacceptable. We both serve a vital function in law enforcement and we have to work together to ensure a fluid and functional operation. Fighting and arguing only perpetuates ill will and retards the function of which we both serve. We in Corrections have major stigmas which we have to overcome, we are looked down on by the public, just like our LEO counterparts and in some instances we are looked down upon by the LEO community. I have been told we are nothing but security guards, yet we are certified by FDLE just like our counterparts on the road. In some ways this is the law enforcement community's fault and in some ways its our own fault. Corrections lifers are around inmate so much that they start to adapt and mimic inmate mannerisms. I've had to correct officers on many occasions walking around the facility and exhibiting no professionalism what so ever, like having sweaters tied around their necks, WTF? This has to stop. A popular way of hiring and operating jails today is essentially "representative corrections", hiring a force which represents the population of the facility, this is beyond wrong.