You know it would be funny

if it wasn't so stupid. Ddg knows it takes a bit to surpass some of the bright ideas that longshanks has come up with, but this one is worthy of a true Darwin finalist candidate.

Take newly hired deputies without street experience, allow them to negotiate their starting salary, and let them make more at a starting salary than the certified deputies that have been on the street for some time or are training them. Really?????

Why would that get experienced deputies upset? All is well, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain who is playing fast and loose with taxpayer money. It's in the budget.

After all, the personnel position is now run by one of the captains. No supervision there. There's not much of a step to a re-elected bumbler that only looks forward to being president of the National Sheriff's Association. Maybe a real sheriff could tell glick that is not how to run a department. No, just buy him another beer.

So now the glickster starts putting out the information that the county commissioners will be approached and see if they will give more taxpayer money for pay increases for the deputies that are now paid less than new hires due to longshanks' action. Ddg is sure that information alone will quell the disgruntled opinions being expressed and keep employees happy, happy, happy.

Look at more deputies that will be looking at leaving, not to mention those that have already left just to get away from the toxic employment that has continued to occur at the Laramie County Sheriff's Department. Remember, every time an experienced deputy (either jail or street) leaves, so does the training (taxpayer dollars) that has been put into them and the law enforcement experience that has accumulated. Some other department gets a well trained and happy to be gone deputy. It should make you (as a taxpayer) wonder why some current employees that are actively looking for law enforcement jobs elsewhere get sent to these high end training schools at taxpayer expense.

Look at the shortages of deputies on the street and in the jail. How many extra overtime hours for patrol/jail is the management up to this month in an attempt to keep a bare minimum number of deputies on the job? Does anyone in management ever consider what too many shift hours for too long a time does to the people who work for you?

Burnout, officer safety, the list can go on. Watch the downward spiral continue. Just forget about the mentality in charge.