Sinking ship

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Yawn, heard that before. No one else is going anywhere; if they could've -they would've . They are here for the long haul.

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Here is the scoop and the skinny....from my humble point of view.
Those that want to seek employment elsewhere , will. Those that are offered employment elsewhere, will leave.
Not the agency members but the leaders that "lead" your agency have failed you. From the chief to the city manager to the commission. I have watched your agency climb and fall (like the stock market) for many years while working at "neighboring" agency and have a lot of respect and what I would consider a friendship with many of your employees. To know and see where the problem is and/or is going....look at your turn over, attrition rate and lack of upward movement. How many senior members do you have left compared to how many new members (less 5 yrs). Now, are the senior members there acting as positive role models for the new people(?). The old adage; s^#t rolls down hill now becomes extremely obvious. The senior people have been neglicated for many years and no longer have the desire or will power to break their backs for an unrewarding agency. The "leader" that says "do it because, it's your job" will not garner respect from his/her subordinates and will only achieve the basics of service.
I say all that to say this.....the commission needs to "motivate" the manager and the manager needs to do the same to the chief. The chief has been there many years now and in way of bettering the agency has made some steps in the right direction, HOWEVER, by reading these boards has lost the faith and support of his members. A leader that is not respected is inept and must be treated as such.
Good luck, most importantly; keep each other safe.

PS, if you beat us to the fire, don't block the road, we have all the water.

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JH is the best. You sisssies need to suck it up and 10-65!

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If DB Is so great and the leadership is the best, why can't we get a certain detective to come to work?!?!?

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Here we go, three more are saying goodbye. What's is the next adventure? Maybe Tag and Smith will have to come back and be real police officers. Let the good times roll!

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Here we go, three more are saying goodbye. What's is the next adventure? Maybe Tag and Smith will have to come back and be real police officers. Let the good times roll!

Are they REALLY leaving this time or just more rumors?!?!

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Here we go, three more are saying goodbye. What's is the next adventure? Maybe Tag and Smith will have to come back and be real police officers. Let the good times roll!

If they go back to the road, what will BD do? He has supervised that unit so closely for the past several years, how will manage with out a team to lead?!?!? Gasp.

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Here we go, three more are saying goodbye. What's is the next adventure? Maybe Tag and Smith will have to come back and be real police officers. Let the good times roll!

I heard only two are leaving, what happened to the third.

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I see the problem as the new generation of officers. They posess no sense of pride or drive to perform. Everything is someone elses fault but theirs. They complain about not making enough money, yet when the opportunity for overtime presents itself they would rather be off entertaining themselves. They have no desire to learn how to improve themselves or learn how to be a better police officer. They rarely do self initiated activity like we did back in the day. They complain about being bored, yet never step out of their cruiser and look for crime. Maybe they are just too stupid to know what to look for or maybe they are just too lazy. They could be hired by the most squared away agency and they would be no different then they are at BPD.

When is the last time you heard of Huber, March, or Vance getting out on foot and chasing someone down? When is the last time you heard them do a traffic stop and ask the driver for consent to search and then located a large amount of narcotics? Hell, when is the last time you heard them even conduct a traffic stop?

Oh thats right you haven't because they dont care too and take no pride in being a police officer. Its called being lazy people! Think you could get away with that in the private sector? No way! Maybe it is because they have no clue about how to enforce the law cause there too busy planning their night on the town instead of studying their statute book.

Look in the mirror rookies and wake up. By all means do us a favor and resign because that means more police work for the rest of us who actually care about the thin blue line.

Peace out y'all

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Couldn't have said it better myself. Hell when was the last time you heard of anyone doing any real police work at bpd? What happened to the days when you couldn't get a word in otherwise because of Hauser, Vaughn or Jefferson or god forbid Broome calling out traffic stops on the radio? Moral is low so the work is low plain and simple. Nothing will change until these rookies wake up and grow some balls. If not get the hell out of dodge and let the actual cops step up and do their jobs!