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Deputies being threatened and harassed to harass the public in the name of numbers. Supervisors threatened with write ups unless they threatened and wrote up deputies for low numbers. Quotas? Minimum numbers? For what? Brass promotions? An even bigger budget that does not end up as raises for us or more deputies? Raises for command staff? All while taking routine call they cared nothing about?
Did you work a mentally exhausting natural death call alone and have to console multiple grieving family members? Did count. Only stats counted. Where were your ten traffic stops? Did you work a draining convoluted child abuse call at a day care with multiple child witnesses and never ending report? Didn’t count. Where are your traffic stops and arrests? How about a delayed rape call? Didn’t count. 383’s, 388’s, 220’s, 680’s, none counted as you doing your job. Seemed nothing we did counted unless it involved arrests or traffic stops. Which set a bad presidency for rookies because they only took calls that ended up in arrests or did warrants or traffic stops for drug arrests all day leaving REAL CALLS neglected.
Can anyone explain what the hell that was? It was a major conflict of interest and a serious stressor on deputies. We had squads with only four deputies and they demanded we run razor units leaving us even more short handed. Proactive BS over taking calls which should never happen. Calls always come first.
The stats era that lasted about a year. It drove away many newer deputies. On my platoon alone, 5 deputies resigned within one month because of the toxicity. It started when Hannaford became patrol colonel and It ended after the cheating scandal. I assumed it was him but some districts were not hit as hard. Which leads me to believe it was a major or a few majors clawing for that colonel position.
Was that all 5 districts?
Things are calmer now, but it still happened. These leaders think that treating us like garbage and pushing us past the point of which we can handle makes it all ok after it stops. It still happened. Many deputies were driven away. The HCSO not only failed to retain those deputies but it pushed them away.
Just because it’s over, doesn’t mean the person or persons that caused it, shouldn’t be called out.
Nothing wrong with proactive policing but CALLS come first. If you want BOTH, then DOUBLE our amount of deputies on these streets. Have enough deputies to handle the never ending calls along with their associated reports, then the proactivity happens.
Quality or quantity. You can’t have both. Your method of overriding this by threatening and bullying causes a decline of deputy mental health and a failure to retain them.
I would really like to know the origin of that year of hell. It really affected a lot of people working at the HCSO.
Did you work a mentally exhausting natural death call alone and have to console multiple grieving family members? Did count. Only stats counted. Where were your ten traffic stops? Did you work a draining convoluted child abuse call at a day care with multiple child witnesses and never ending report? Didn’t count. Where are your traffic stops and arrests? How about a delayed rape call? Didn’t count. 383’s, 388’s, 220’s, 680’s, none counted as you doing your job. Seemed nothing we did counted unless it involved arrests or traffic stops. Which set a bad presidency for rookies because they only took calls that ended up in arrests or did warrants or traffic stops for drug arrests all day leaving REAL CALLS neglected.
Can anyone explain what the hell that was? It was a major conflict of interest and a serious stressor on deputies. We had squads with only four deputies and they demanded we run razor units leaving us even more short handed. Proactive BS over taking calls which should never happen. Calls always come first.
The stats era that lasted about a year. It drove away many newer deputies. On my platoon alone, 5 deputies resigned within one month because of the toxicity. It started when Hannaford became patrol colonel and It ended after the cheating scandal. I assumed it was him but some districts were not hit as hard. Which leads me to believe it was a major or a few majors clawing for that colonel position.
Was that all 5 districts?
Things are calmer now, but it still happened. These leaders think that treating us like garbage and pushing us past the point of which we can handle makes it all ok after it stops. It still happened. Many deputies were driven away. The HCSO not only failed to retain those deputies but it pushed them away.
Just because it’s over, doesn’t mean the person or persons that caused it, shouldn’t be called out.
Nothing wrong with proactive policing but CALLS come first. If you want BOTH, then DOUBLE our amount of deputies on these streets. Have enough deputies to handle the never ending calls along with their associated reports, then the proactivity happens.
Quality or quantity. You can’t have both. Your method of overriding this by threatening and bullying causes a decline of deputy mental health and a failure to retain them.
I would really like to know the origin of that year of hell. It really affected a lot of people working at the HCSO.