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11-04-2007, 03:09 AM #51
[quote=USC Trojan]
Originally Posted by Anonymous
RP was in costume. You mean to tell me that you did not recognize him. He was dressed up as a police chief. Wow, is that far fetched or what?????
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11-05-2007, 05:08 AM #52Originally Posted by Amazed again
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11-06-2007, 03:15 AM #53
READ THIS POST FROM FLPD FORUM. ANYTHING SOUND FAMILIAR?????
When I started here at FLPD almost 10 years ago, We were the elite agency in South Florida and dare I say all Florida. Technology: We had none; Take Home Cars: We had none; In car computers: well, remember the FORTE?. Our equipment sucked and our police cars were rat nests. And you know what? No one cared! Our pay was tops, our details (which still are) were the greatest around town, and your boss came in every day and told you to kick ass and take names.
On FTO, you were taught not to take crap from anyone. With our own jail, everyone was fair game. Other agencies knew that if Fort Lauderdale arrived on scene, the job was getting done, one way or another. In the academy, I remember the instructors always saying, "there's this way of doing things, and then there's the Fort Lauderdale way of doing things". We were proud of that and others looked up to us. Arrestees would beg you to charge them state statute and not city ordinance because of the time they would have to do in our jail. Bad guys feared us and feared our jail. The brass, for the most part, left you alone. I have vivid memories of Sgt Kridos yelling at someone on the phone who complained on me, instead of quivering and capitulating like a coward as some Sgts do today. Your Sgts looked out for you. Stats? Yeah, they mattered, but there was not the obsession as there is today.
This department, in the short time I have been here, has done a 180-degree turn, in the wrong direction. It's all about leadership, or lack thereof. Bottom line is, we have no leadership at this agency. There are very few people, Captains and above, who I would rally around and follow into battle. Capt Peney in one, but I am hard pressed to find another. Instead of positive motivation, the current brass motivates by intimidation and threats of discipline. This is no way to motivate. Reckless investigations are rampant and the abuse of power is overwhelming. It has obviously become apparent to many that the only way to get ahead in this department is to prove your ability to massively hand down discipline. How is it that supposed leaders don’t understand this? Is it that complicated? Do I need to make a graph, because I know they understand those?
When you compile this with the city’s inexcusable treatment of its officers from furlough days to fraudulent terminations, you have the likes of a mutiny on your hands. What has happened to this place? What makes city officials lie about one of the finest officers this place has in Officer Hoffman? What makes fellow brothers and sisters turn on their own in the case of Sgt Suess? Unfortunately, I don’t have the answer. It is a systematic abuse of power and a cultivated culture of back stabbing nurtured from the top down. For those that say, if you don’t like it, you don’t have to take a test to quit? Well, you’re right. I don’t have to stay. With a college degree, obtained before I became a cop from a real University, and my experience here, getting another job in the public or private sector wouldn’t be a stretch for me. So don’t throw that crap around my direction! I stay because of the great friends I have made, the comradery you can get nowhere else, and the fact that I truly like being a cop. And for those who say that work is not supposed to be fun? GET REAL! Work for me used to be very fun and to some extent still is. Are there those people out there forced to work a job they hate each and every day? You bet. Fortunately and luckily for me, I am not one of those people. I have options so you can keep that crap too!
When it comes to this contract, I am more optimistic now than before. I have been very impressed and encouraged by the strong turnout and support our members have given. We, for the first time in a long time, are united. Our executive board is outstanding and is ready to take this fight to the tyrants. The city should be scared because this time, we’re not backing down! And when this contract fight is over and we have prevailed, we will turn our sights on this administration and this city management. The days of this vial totalitarian dictatorship will eventually come to an end. As one of my favorite detectives says, “The White Plains Mafia” must be defeated. Those administrators who have sworn their allegiance to this group of thugs will find themselves isolated, with no bridge left standing behind them. Choose your side now because a war is brewing!
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11-06-2007, 01:27 PM #54Originally Posted by Anonymous
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11-06-2007, 10:54 PM #55
FLPD are you refering to Phil Cameron?
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