Open message to Commissioner Swearingen

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I apologize for using this anonymous venue to make this request, but I fear further retribution from the Miami Command Staff.

The rumor is a written complaint has been filed from an employee providing just a taste of the hostile work environment being experienced by MROC employees from the SAS positions down to clerical positions by MROC command staff and business office. The employee chose to retire early due to emotional distress brought on by the hostile work environment. All we request is a fair investigation.

An investigation into this complaint should (open a can of worms) expose the myriad of hostile acts that have occurred in the Palm Beach, Broward, Miami offices. The members of the Regions have been working very hard and under tremendous pressure to produce and have been quietly trying to cope with the environment but its at a breaking point with members being on the receiving end of retaliatory punishment for not submitting to highly unreasonable expectations and demands. Members in all levels have similar complaints, but are scared of retaliation from command staff. In the previous hostile work environment investigation at MROC, a Hispanic female command staff member was relieved of duty when the investigation began as well as the target of the investigation that allowed for members to speak freely to investigators. I trust that these investigations are to be consistent. Not going to discuss any specific allegations here to be fair to the investigation process, but just asking that there IS an investigation.

Members are to record or take good notes of any attempt by command staff to influence their testimony.

I apologize once again for using this venue and I've tried to be respectful to the process. The members are just afraid that this complaint will go nowhere.

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Has anyone considered a class action for hostile work environment? Many past and present employees have been tormented by this place. Think of all the people "run" off who would join

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Has anyone considered a class action for hostile work environment? Many past and present employees have been tormented by this place. Think of all the people "run" off who would join

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Has anyone considered a class action for hostile work environment? Many past and present employees have been tormented by this place. Think of all the people "run" off who would join

Come on, grow up, go back to FHP. Your a bunch of wanna be feds. Get lost with your bullshit and do your job that your so highly paid for😂

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Why would they start investigating now. Just look at Jax and the RR debacle and Pensacola at all the issues there. Now let's gander South to the Golden Beach incident to Agent Smith that signs contracts in the Keys....Yea, why do they want to hold people accountable now..

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Swearingen doesn't care. He's just riding his term out with his fat paycheck, and he knows he's done when Rick Scott leaves in a few years. Since his golden appointment, he's accepted the fact that he's the King and could care less about the peasants.

If you are on the investigative side, Ladner would get the info, and he's in the pocket of all the SAC's and ASAC's enough to where they can tell him anything and he won't look at the other side of things. If something is reported to EI, he'll convince them not to do anything because if they do, it shows that something about misconduct was brought up, and it's easier to defend your shit treatment of people if you don't document it or do something about it. A public records request would result in no problems being brought up. Plausible deniability. Cheap, dirty, but it works so they like it. They have their retirements, fat checks, and don't care.

Since RS has been in, when PBA has approached the command staff about injustices or asked that something be looked at, they have the pass off/don't care "We know" and won't address it. Why is this? Again, they don't give a shit.

Of course, we're only talking about people they don't have anything on that they want to run off- if they have something legit, they'll go forward with it, but the person will deserve it.

This administration makes the Madden group look like the greatest FDLE has ever had. RS is like the Kim Jong-un of LEO leaders.

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One chooses Criminal Justice not to get rich, but to make a difference and commit to a greater good. Picking forensics and dedicating your life to this kind of work while there are so many options early on to make more money takes a person of greater character.

I think we all can agree that once you get in this line of work, you realize you can affect someones life by your analysis or documentation and how that will be interpreted by the courts, and ultimately, whether someone could spend their life in jail or not. As such, you proceed with great caution and most of us feel that it would be the ultimate injustice to affect someone's life with an incorrect analysis or even skewed analysis. Whether we want an outcome or not based on what we know about a person or case isn't what matters- it's pure facts.

Integrity is listed all over our buildings and touted as being absolutely necessary to work here. Doing what's right, even when you don't have is what we used to all follow.

So when a Supervisor and a few people unfairly target one of our own, skew results, or even lie about things in a personnel review such as a evaluation, wouldn't this be one of the greatest injustices to our Agency and what we stand for, regardless if we like the individual under attack or not? Why is it that Tallahassee would just go along with ruining one of our own and not realizing the individuals doing it are the ones that don't stand for what our Agency is about?

So when that employee can't feed their kids, pay their rent, and is destroyed, the only ones that feel good are the ones that orchestrated it.. and they are the ones that should be figuring out a way to pay their rent!!

In another case, a Supervisor makes damaging statements in an evaluation to destroy someone, with factual documents to show the Supervisor lied.. yet that Supervisor remains. A testifying Criminal Justice employee that has become a proven liar is useless in our business, right?

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A Supervisor lying maliciously would be a end of career offense. A Supervisor in Miami perjured herself and was dismissed.