Another Election Year

Welcome to 2014 with another election year upon us. Will anything change at 1910 Pioneer???? Think about longshanks looking down on you from one of the newer electronic billboards (sorry, Ddg should have warned before you got that mental image) being politically correct and telling you what a fine job he does. Does this remind you of anyone in DC?

Not likely time for a change as glick must be re-elected to fulfill his current fantasy dream of being el presidente of the National Sheriff's Association.That will give him another excuse (not that he needs one) to be gone from the office.

Who would run against him? Whoever it is would have a long rebuilding ahead. Who in their right mind would want to look at it? The amount of incompetence that has been "promoted" and now has a say in the future promotions is scary to say the least. Of course the current undersheriff and captain positions are appointed so they could leave without any fanfare. A new and actually competent sheriff could run the patrol side without an undersheriff. He would need one captain and one lieutenant that could actually do their job as was done before glick was elected. Remember when glick made a big deal about the prior administration being top heavy with less staff than he has now? "Pay no attention to the man behind the screen. Look, a shiny object." What does that make him, besides a hypocrite?

Dispatch, under the lack of leadership from crumpton (a longshanks' favorite), has continued to spiral downward and dropped to a new low. Yes, Ddg knows that his immediate bosses are the county commissioners, but he would not have been "appointed" there without glick. The dispatchers that want to do the job the right way are not allowed to do it. The general public, when they call in for assistance, get the proverbial twenty questions asked before being assisted. That seems to be the current policy, not the individual dispatchers choice. 

What of the short staffing on the street? Does a lack of experience and personnel on the street contribute to a PUBLIC and an officer safety problem? You bet it does. So how far up the chain of command do you go before you find someone that okays a short (lack of personnel on the street) schedule that they should not even consider in the first place. Someone again that was "promoted" beyond their knowledge and ability level and not able to fulfill their job functions. Someone that is obviously not being supervised.

By the way, once the administration tells you that you are fired (without the required hearing) in writing and then are told you are not really fired, can we have the county get ready to write a big check? Not to worry, it's a personnel matter that cannot be commented on. Look for another large taxpayer payout.

In the recent sergeant promotions, the deputies with the years of experience on the street did not test. They know that they would not get the slot because they are not in "favor" with the administration.

One sergeant who was appointed and now will be retiring, has come to realize that he is no longer "one of the in crowd."  When you swim with sharks, eventually you will get bit, right B? It was alright when you were doing the biting at command and it was not you getting bit, wasn't it?