Protect Yourself, Join FOP

If you are not a member of the Wyoming Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #7, the local lodge, you should be. As long as you are a sworn member of a department in Southeast Wyoming, you are eligible.

By being a member, you can pay for and receive legal representation for anything that happens that is job related, be it civil, criminal, or administrative. Too bad you have to plan ahead that not only the bad guys are out there trying to do you, but that your own department (ala glick) will throw you over the side. Of course it depends on who you are as to what will happen or not happen to you. Unfortunately that is the way that it is. Just think what you would have to lay down for a lawyer in cash to start with payments to follow to represent you. Makes no sense to knuckle under just because you cannot afford legal protection when you need it, especially when you know that you are in the right.

It makes the cost of several hundred dollars a year (probably less than your car insurance) a really good deal. You know that if you did not back longshanks in the primary that they will be looking at you. Can't refute that, can you?

Good news, bad news. The good news is you can join FOP, just ask at work. The bad news is that unless you are a member in good standing (dues paid) and have enrolled/paid for legal protection, it will not be retroactive. Kind of like buying flood insurance while trying to bail out your basement. No coverage there either.

So join and document, document, document.