This is GREAT STUFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Constables.......the REAL L.E.
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Shame on the towns that appoint them and shame on the chiefs that allow them to have blue lights. My understanding is that the blue light permits get signed by the local police chief but I could be wrong. Lock up a few of these morons for kidnapping and it will send the message .
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Maybe ICE could send them to the court houses to apprehend illegal aliens. I bet they’d be real good at that.
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YUP! The house of cards may be coming down for Darryl! Lookie! We "boxed the vehicle in" and "conducted a field sobriety test!"
Lynn incident draws more scrutiny to controversial constables
Lynn incident draws more scrutiny to controversial constables
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They're mostly appointed (sometimes elected) by cities and towns, but are very, very rarely municipal employees. They're essentially independent contractors who receive their authority from the city & town, but collect direct fees from landlords, attorneys, etc., and they pay a percentage of those fees to the city or town.
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If you didn't buy the hat you're not official.
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Interesting. That's slightly different than they are here in CT. Here, there's two different kinds of constables, and they typically are only in towns that do not have an independent municipal police department. There are "regular" constables, who are town employees (usually per diam), and technically do have the power to carry out civil processes and deliver papers. However, in practice, all they do is traffic and crowd control at town events, and provide a presence. Anything goes down, they observe and report and punt it to the State Police. I am actually quite likely going to be taking a constable position in my town soon. It's an easy gig: Make between $20 to $60 bucks an hour depending on the assignment, 4 hours of pay minimum no matter what, and I barely have to do jack shit or have any liability.
Then, in some towns, there are "Special Constables", who are sworn police officers. They have the same standards, hiring process, attend the same academy, and have the same duties and powers as cops in a municipal PD. They also have the title "officer" and not "constable" (only in the state statutes are they referred to as "constable"). The only difference between them and municipal officers is that special constables work under the Resident State Trooper program, and are supervised by a CT State Police sergeant, rather than a police chief (the first selectman is technically the chief/commissioner in these towns). This system was set up as a cost saving measure for towns that were too small to afford their own PD, but too big to have a single resident trooper. Of course, now the program is becoming a little outdated, and now that the state has punted the entire cost of the program to the towns (it use to be 80% town 20% state), it's not as much of a cost saver as it once was.
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The sheriff's departments here in Mass. had the same problem. They were on the books as "law enforcement" , but lacked the present day training standards. Now most have gone through a corrections academy AND R/I academy.
Makes for a better product on the street
Makes for a better product on the street
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Yeah exactly! We all know what a great job the RMV has been doing for the past 30 years of hackery!
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In their defense they were doing really important things like trying to figure out how many gender options they should give people to choose from.
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If the state is for this it needs to be frozen, at least for now, and then have legislature written with proper training standards and updated scripture to protect the public from these yahoo’s AND protect them from the public.
Not to mention, what if the Lynn police showed up and these guys had their firearms out. Now your putting your “brothers” (loose term for them) in a bad situation, AND THEIR NOT GETTING PAID.
This is the ultimate wacker position, it SCREAMS lawsuit. Their families, if they have them, should be concerned about what they are doing. It’s a dangerous time to be a cop as it is right now, never mind this.
As sad as it is, as time goes on I find myself less and less surprised though.
Not to mention, what if the Lynn police showed up and these guys had their firearms out. Now your putting your “brothers” (loose term for them) in a bad situation, AND THEIR NOT GETTING PAID.
This is the ultimate wacker position, it SCREAMS lawsuit. Their families, if they have them, should be concerned about what they are doing. It’s a dangerous time to be a cop as it is right now, never mind this.
As sad as it is, as time goes on I find myself less and less surprised though.
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Everything could probably be done by civil process sheriffs and constables could be eliminated. There are actually two types of constables in Mass. One type can only perform services directly for the city or town government that appoints them and the other type are bonded and can do private civil process such as divorces, child support, and related civil process. I am a constable but I am not bonded and I can only perform services for the town I work for which is very rare. It is not uncommon for towns to appoint a police officer as a constable in case the town itself needs constable services.
I occasionally use a constable service for some rental property I own. The guy I use is a professional constable. He is in it to perform a service to his clients and treats it like a business. The one thing he does not want is problems with local police. He goes out of his way to work well with them. He also makes an absolute ton of money doing it. He described to me once that he charges $100 per adult at each address to serve "Notices to Quit" which is the first stage of an eviction. He has accounts with multiple large rental agencies who need tons of these served every month. He says a few days a month he picks an area of his city and goes into large apartment complexes and serves like 10 notices per hour. Sometimes there are several adults at the same address which means he can make several hundred dollars in an instant. He does this a few days per month and it is only a small part of his business. After hearing what he does and what he gets paid for it, he is no doubt make significantly more money than 95% of cops. He is smart enough to realize that he doesn't want to mess up his business getting into a jam playing cop.
I occasionally use a constable service for some rental property I own. The guy I use is a professional constable. He is in it to perform a service to his clients and treats it like a business. The one thing he does not want is problems with local police. He goes out of his way to work well with them. He also makes an absolute ton of money doing it. He described to me once that he charges $100 per adult at each address to serve "Notices to Quit" which is the first stage of an eviction. He has accounts with multiple large rental agencies who need tons of these served every month. He says a few days a month he picks an area of his city and goes into large apartment complexes and serves like 10 notices per hour. Sometimes there are several adults at the same address which means he can make several hundred dollars in an instant. He does this a few days per month and it is only a small part of his business. After hearing what he does and what he gets paid for it, he is no doubt make significantly more money than 95% of cops. He is smart enough to realize that he doesn't want to mess up his business getting into a jam playing cop.
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The Massachusetts Legislature will rewrite the OUI laws a bazillion times if it will benefit their private law practices, but bet the house that they’ll do NOTHING about these whackers, until there’s a tragedy that was completely avoidable if they did their fucking jobs in the first place.
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