Our AO is not rough...at all. It should be easy for a rookie to function in this environment. We are hiring guys with experience from larger agencies who have boat loads of high crime area experience and we get them because we pay. PERIOD. We just hired a Detective with 10 years experience from the same agency I started at. More money and less BS is what we offered. He jumped on it and didn't look back. I tell rookies if they want real experience go somewhere like Durham, Raleigh, Henderson, Wilson, Rocky Mount, etc...areas with high crime rates if they want to see how difficult it can be. It's a cake walk here. Not even joking.Originally Posted by dove
Our last rookie quit because he had to rifle through a dead guys pockets to find his ID. The dead guy had OD'd on heroin. I spoke with him about it and he looked like he was about to flip out. He quit the next day. Came into Roll Call in shorts, t-shirt, and flip-flops and dropped off a box with his issued equipment. His parents paid a boat load for him to go to college and get a 4-year degree in CJ. Before that OD he went to a domestic call that was fairly heated and HE LEFT HIS FTO ALONE in the house to deal with it! FTO looks around like WTH!? Rookie said it looked like he had it handled so he walked out to get some air...Wasted time and effort IMO. He's just the picture of what we are now getting. Played on his game console all his life and thinks that fighting in the real world is like a damn video game. Reality kicked him square in the nuts. No one knows how to fight anymore. The taser isn't the end-all-be-all its been made out to be. Let one fail to stop a suspect and watch what happens to a new employee. They'll just stand there in awe, not knowing WTF to do next. He really did us a favor by quitting half way through FTO as we wouldn't have to waste more time on him. I think he's playing in a garage band now or some shit.
Is it a training issue? Yes! But shouldn't they get a lot of that in the academy? But like I said, this guy couldn't function under stress. How's the Detective we hired doing? GREAT! No problems because he worked in a shitty environment at a shitty agency (about 115 officers) with shitty pay, with shitty supervisors who gave zero shits about him or anything else other than how they looked or closing a case. I'm not trying to suggest we are the greatest agency as we have our issues as well. We have shitheads just like everyone else. They filter out soon enough by doing something incredibly stupid on or off duty like getting a DWI or whipping their Johnson out to show the store clerk in the back room or getting into a domestic with their spouse and spraying them with OC or...
Just over 4 years left til 30...
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