The grass can be greener

[NolongerHCSO]

Sup yall, long time lurker, first time poster. I spent years at HCSO and ended up leaving for another agency. I’m here to say the grass can and most likely greener than HCSO. I still have plenty of friends there and I really didn’t think it would get worse….for patrol.
Yes I said patrol. One of the worst things at that agency is how little they care about patrol. How bad it is staffed, no incentive to stay on it, the constant supervisor shuffles gives 0 stability (amongst other issues with this), it’s used as a punishment which leads to disgruntled employees, the constant pressure to do x50s/800s/700s so their numbers stay high and the list could go on.
I’m just here to say, as someone who left for greener pastures, the grass is def greener. Despite what all the supervisors will tell ya there. Good luck to those still there fighting to good fight on patrol.

 

[Hugo Stiglitz]

I have personally learned a lot from pre-certs and friends I have made at this agency that have resigned and went on to other agencies. Hearing about how other agencies do things really opened my eyes. This is over a period of many years. People that have never met each other all saying the same things about how top heavy we are, how short handed the streets are, and how deputies do way too much especially for the pay. Brass refuses to listen to why people leave. They also do not like when pre-certs speak up. For a long time, this agency did not take pre-certs because “they asked too many questions and had bad habits”. They write off deputies that resign as “not having the heart to work here” or whatever BS they come up with and refuse to listen to them. I still talk with many ex HCSO deputies and they still carry resentment and and anger towards the HCSO. Even though they are long gone to new agencies. Why? What causes this?

I get a kick out of hearing how other agencies handle natural deaths, homeless calls, addiction calls, mental health calls, and so on. How their cities and counties have mediation services or dedicated mental health response systems. It seems other states, cities, counties have systems in place for many issues and do what they can to unload their law enforcement officers, whereas here, it seems they dump everything on their deputies. Something has to give. No agency is perfect, but the HCSO seems like an expensive fancy looking agency that still operates as if it was 30 years ago.