In my area we deal with all the idiots of the county. These ignorant souls come in drunk, high, irrate, aggressive, and want to fight. Unforunately we have supervisors that feel we need to demplomatic about what we do. Basically our supervisors feel we should be able to endore the disrespect from our inmate population. Their usual statement, "We get paid to much to entertain what an inmate says." What they fell to realize, if everyone has that attitude we are only one step from a riot. All it takes is for one inmate to build enough courage to step-up, being disrespectful, and gain a large number of followers.

We need to take the jail system back from these type supervisors and inmates before someone gets hurt. Sometimes you have used force and step out of your professional realm, especially in our line of work. Most of the people we intake have heard so much negativity all their lives, until that is the only way to approach them.

In nut shell let us do what we are trained to do.