Chronister asks why so many are quitting.

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If that poster had any talent, morality, and decency - he'd still have a job.

This right here, BOOM SON!

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If that poster had any talent, morality, and decency - he'd still have a job.

Chad, here is your answer. You, and your agency treat patrol as a Cancer.

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Chad, here is your answer. You, and your agency treat patrol as a Cancer.

Nope, wrong answer. The Sheriff did this agency a great service. He got rid of many dirty cops who were lowly, whiskey tango fuukcs - but not from Patrol.

You know who you are, and we are all glad you are no longer among our ranks.

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Nope, wrong answer. The Sheriff did this agency a great service. He got rid of many dirty cops who were lowly, whiskey tango fuukcs - but not from Patrol.

You know who you are, and we are all glad you are no longer among our ranks.

A "Detective"?

[Unregistered]

There you go, weakling, let it all out. If you had any talent, you’d be out of patrol by now...

Once again Chad, here is your answer. You, and your agency, treat patrol like a CANCER! No wonder so many a quitting, and mostly from patrol.

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Nope, wrong answer. The Sheriff did this agency a great service. He got rid of many dirty cops who were lowly, whiskey tango fuukcs - but not from Patrol.

You know who you are, and we are all glad you are no longer among our ranks.

This right here!!!!

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Detention is even quitting faster than patrol. Why do you think Colonels are changing again?

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Detention is even quitting faster than patrol. Why do you think Colonels are changing again?

0eople always been leaving from Detention, that nothing new.

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0eople always been leaving from Detention, that nothing new.

This is true. Very true. The detention quitting problem is an old problem, but It has now spread to patrol though. Agencies have a bad habit of looking at things only on the surface and forgetting history. The answers lie there. At least, long ago, newly hired detention deputies could be fooled into thinking that working hard could get them to patrol after a few years. This could get a few detention deputies to give it all they had for a few years and make up for lack of staff until replaced. However, long ago, some actually could transfer to patrol and patrol was far better than the jail, so it was a common goal. That carrot being dangled in front of them sort of worked. Now, patrol is worse than the jail and transfers barely happen if ever. Basically nothing to string them along with. So they quit.

The main problem with the jail is beyond simple. ONE deputy ALONE inside a POD with up to 72 inmates. There should be two. It’s as simple as that. A dangerous terrible design. A business man designed that because it’s the cheapest way to do things. At the cost of the mental health of the detention deputies. So they quit. It’s only logical. Self preservation.

Detention Lock down areas house the most dangerous inmates and booking is super busy and out of control, yet deputies prefer those areas and seek those areas. Why? Deputies working together in those areas. Not alone in a pod. More contact with each other, comradery, and higher morale. Common sense.

Detention is a mind fuk. A bad design for our mental health. A design approved by a colonel we had long ago that was never a cop and never set foot in a pod, yet assisted with the design of FRJ. Made the pod desk low to the ground instead of up high like in ORJ, they put the deputy desk in the center of the pod away from the door, inmates walking around behind you, no cells, no ability to lock down. A joke. To make things cheap and fluffy for inmates, it costs us our ability to stay to full term so we quit. Or is that the real objective all along? Keeping the revolving door spinning. Problem is…. No more revolving door now. Just an exit door.

Its not about the pay either. Detention was given equal pay with patrol years ago and the quitting got worse.

Officer safety training always teaches us to triangulate a suspect, yet you are alone with 72 inmates in a pod. It’s all a joke. They don’t care. Especially now after COVID, people are realizing that you only live once and a miserable career is not the way to go.

Sad thing is our leaders can fix this but instead delegate the problem to some department or division commander who then delegates the problem down to a committee or group of fast trackers detectives, brown nose deputies, and civilians with zip codes for badge numbers and they just copy nationwide current trends or what the private sector does. “Prisons run their pods this way real cheap, so should we. High turnover though.” Morons. Then they wonder why people quit while refusing to see or address the broken archaic methods of doing things. Where are most deputies quitting from? Detention and patrol? Or cushy spots?

Let me guess, my post is “crazy”. Exactly another reason nobody speaks up and nothing changes. Just quit you say? Done. Now what?

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Well said. That exactly what they told me. I’ll transfer to the road once I do my time in the jail. Wish I would of went to Polk where at least they dual certify their Deputies.

Detention is short, and as you all said, it’s always short. But last few months have been very bad for the Detention side.