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Of course they want to be cops!!!! This is a union issue for every town city and State and every other police officer I dont care if your a campus police officer, fed cop or whatever. Every police officer on this board should take notice of this. Skip the test, the academy make a donation and then take YOUR job from you. This is about your family and your job, even if your not there fully yet. Worcster County banded together , almost every town city and the State got together to say no to the Sheriff's patrolling the cities and towns. The Sheriff even went so far as to try to get a cease and desist order on this group of union police officers!!!! Hope for Sen. Glodis to stop this debacle..

 

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As I have said before , yes there are Deputy's that didn't pay for their job but earned it, but there are an inordinate amount that have not. Any organization that allows people to pay $2,000 or have everyone in their family contribute $1,000 then there is something wrong. Right now a certain Sheriff is in a tight race and poof, all of a sudden three police union officials sons are hired, hhhmmmmm. Until such time that all are required to take a realistic test without political influence then everyone knows it is a tainted system and the respect will be LACKING...
And yes this issue might be decided by the politicians, and most of the Sheriff's are ex-pols, just hope that the paying public doesn't find out about the $$$ being spent on Yukons, and machine guns and command posts, when the average patrol officer might not have a bulletproof vest or even a MDT that might save his life. That $$ that goes to have all these connected Deputies to drive around in Expeditions and Yukons should be used to give hard working police officers the equipment that they need and some people should do the RIGHT THING.

As to my spending some time in a facility, a very large majority of Troopers and other Police Officers have come from the ranks of the DOC and or Town or City police or sometimes both.

Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass on the tour as I have worked 10 Block and Essex 1 at MCI-Walpole... soooo much for generalizations

 

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YES, you are where it happens , Just say NO!! Tell the boss "Dont you think that there are police officers on the street that might need this equipment, and might get injured if they dont get it, we are correction officers and not police officers". Make change , dont go with the flow stand up for yourself and make a difference. Do the right thing...!!! And for the 14th time I dont lump everyone together, but yes you must have your eyes closed because of the five guys I know that work in my county for the SO or their relatives three got it with donations or hacks...

The 3 votes I was talking about was within ONE PD......

Hmmm what do you think the Leominster Officer thought as he got pulled over the other day by a Deputy Sheriff and he tried to lecture him by saying "You should know better" before the Leominster Officer had a meltdown and drove away leaving the Deputy stammering on the sidewalk mmmhhhhhhhhhhhh

A correction Officer is a correction Officer. Joint by joint yes there are different institutions but the job overall is the same as LEO's but with different enviroments, MCI-Walpole just happen to have guys that were doing anywhere from 10-400 years and had nothing to lose.

 

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Pearl I think when you become a full time Police Officer, you will have a different take on this matter and I cant tell you how many times I have said that 7 out of ten Deputies earned their job ... It's those three that didn't..... I had to take the State test three times before I got on, but I TOOK the test, not made a donation....

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself that's why it's great to have a union and not have to worry like you guys about who the next hack it is that is coming in.
Express your opinion in a professional way, that is allowed, just say no to deputies getting equipment that should go to City and Town Officers working the STREET.

If Stoneham allows this to happen, watch the fallout, Hopefully their union will sue like Lawrence PD did and won big $$$$$ for putting Deputies where hard working police officers have always been.
Middlesex is going to be their own worst enemy, watch...

I realize that most of the guys in the house are doing short bids, or are awaiting trial, let me know I still get guys tours of Walpole...

 

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Sheriffs

First of all, only a Chief of Police or the Colonel can issue ticket books... (and maybe one or two others BUT the SHERIFF cannot issue a Deputy a ticket book!!

Any town or police officer that wants to pm and tell what towns are available in A-Troop to cover ANY detail that the MSP cannot fill please do so and from what I understand you will be in front of any correction officer.

While they say ONE thing Worcester does another....

One of their Deputies parades as a part time hubardston (SP??) cop on the task force, this is the same Deputy that went to Framingham PD and offered their services to buy dope and do detective work thereby taking jobs from union police officers!!!

Let get one thing straight. The Sheriff's will NEVER get the respect until they have a test for all positions and for promotions instead of buying it with $$$$$

Again , again again, yes yes yes, not ALL Deputies buy their job but a % do and it taints all of them!!!!

The "Special Services Unit" of the Worcester CO SO should be comprised of people that worked hard and earned it but instead are a bunch of hacks and people that are connected.... They go to hawaii and get a prisoner and bring how many people???? What discipline got handed out???

They use jobs handed out to union police officers kids to win over PD's.......