Should this trooper be fired?

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:35:28 GMT, "jaybird" > wrote:

>
>"Dave Head" > wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:07:48 GMT, "jaybird" > wrote:
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>>>Of course he shouldn't be fired. He's an 18 year veteran with no prior
>>>disciplinary action. I wouldn't wish a firing on anyone in any profession
>>>with that record, just based on a comment.
>>
>> On one hand, you're consistent! <G>
>
>I asked myself why that is and came up with a pretty good answer. There are
>a lot of stories that come through these groups where cops have screwed up.
>You can read the story and say "yeah, that guy f#$cked up".

He INTENTIONALLY ****ed up.

We don't need people like him (or you) carrying guns and being in
positions of authority.


> Then there are
>stories like this one where someone got their feelings hurt.

People could have died, and quite possibly did because of his actions.


> Well, boo
>freakin hoo.


I'm sure people will be crying at the victims funeral.

> Suck it up like a man and move on with your life; you'll be
>ok. Then of course, there are the ones in the middle where we don't quite
>have all of the information so we go back and forth for weeks with people
>making up crap and assumptions the whole way. A good personal example is of
>a complaint that came in the other day. Some guy wrote a letter complaining
>to internal affairs that he received two citations and the cop was rude to
>him. IA wrote their official report and sent it to the supervisor to
>investigate. The supervisor calls the violator and asks him how the cop was
>rude. The answer he got was "well, he wrote me two tickets". "Uh..... ok,
>that's something you'll have to see a judge about. Tell me how the cop was
>rude". "Well if he hadn't written me two tickets I never would've
>complained". "Ok, sir, you have a nice day". Case closed, unfounded.
>That's why stories like this bug the hell out of me.
>

That's completely irrelevant to this case.

>>
>> On the other hand, I agree - the bunch around here is very, very quick to
>> have
>> people fired or say that a person shouldn't be driving. Leave it up to
>> this
>> bunch, and _nobody_ would be qualified to drive due to some innocuous
>> minutia
>> about their driving that they simply don't like.
>
>Apparently they can all be better cops than the ones currently employed too.

I have no doubt I could and would be.