Say It Ain't So, Joe

So now the newer patrol lieutenant is putting in his retirement papers. Heading for greener pastures, no doubt.

So that raises a question or two.

Does the department go on with one patrol lieutenant (like Sheriff Allsop effectively did) or is there another additional lieutenant to be promoted to a job that one qualified person could handle? Will the promotion go to one of the politically correct sergeants that are well known for spending more time on the lot kissing up than doing their assigned job of supervising the street deputies?

Does this retirement have anything at all to do with an off duty incident involving said lieutenant? Ddg hears that it is better to be pissed off than pissed on.

Openings for Supervisors

So the promotions once again rear their ugly head. Will it be like last time when the sergeant (CB) that was promoted anointed was not even on the sergeant's list? Will there be a politically correct selection in the top three that longshanks will give his nod to and prevent a repeat of the last anointment?

Will any deputy even remotely qualified decide to put their hat into the ring, even though their chance of making sergeant will be between slim and none?

Replacing Gerry Luce (Personnel) (political appointee)  with a sergeant position is nothing new. Replacing Luce with someone that would actually do the job and return telephone calls would be something useful.

Twenty years means WHAT????

So now, once your twenty years are in, you are no doubt called up to a departmental gathering before your peers to be honored and given a reminder of your twenty years of service to Laramie County. Twenty years that included running towards the bad guys instead of away from them, time spent away from family because law enforcement does not take a holiday, and dealing with situations that every day people would not have the ability, courage or stomach to handle.

You are thanked for your service and spoken of well by the administration that puts on these gatherings.

NO, it doesn't happen that way unless you are connected. Seems as though a street deputy that recently got his twenty years in also got a notice to check in at the front desk. There he received an empty award box from a records clerk to commemorate his twenty years. longshanks and his staff must have been too busy to give the empty award box to the deputy in person. Talk about an embarrassing lack of leadership abilities, but in this administration, that is nothing new.