Let me make a long story really short. I've been a dispatcher at a smallish police department and was going to attend the academy and become a police officer in March. Here's what happened about 2 weeks ago:
- I'm dispatching, leave my terminal logged in like everyone else does
- Someone runs an out-of-state plate through my terminal that comes back to a missing person
- It's my name logged in, so they question me (and only me) about why it was run, and I have no idea
- They badger, harass and interrogate me for a week every day I work and call 2-3 times a day on my pass time
- D/Sgt. finally calls me in on pass time and interrogates me for an hour and a half, threatening me with FBI action, polygraphs, etc.
- Chief calls me in and tells me that they don't believe me and I should put in my two weeks' notice.
I mean sure, I technically quit, but I gotta believe that if and when anyone calls from another department he's going to tell them what happened or what they suspected me of, right? At the very least if they say "Is this person eligible for rehire?" Of course he's not going to say yes.
The part that ****es me off the most is that I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG. I had a job I enjoyed, I finally was achieving my goal of becoming a cop and it's all gone now because someone did something while my back was turned, I was taking a ****, I went out to get some air, or whatever I was doing that I wasn't at the computer. I got to take the fall for it.
Should I even bother trying to get on anywhere else?
- I'm dispatching, leave my terminal logged in like everyone else does
- Someone runs an out-of-state plate through my terminal that comes back to a missing person
- It's my name logged in, so they question me (and only me) about why it was run, and I have no idea
- They badger, harass and interrogate me for a week every day I work and call 2-3 times a day on my pass time
- D/Sgt. finally calls me in on pass time and interrogates me for an hour and a half, threatening me with FBI action, polygraphs, etc.
- Chief calls me in and tells me that they don't believe me and I should put in my two weeks' notice.
I mean sure, I technically quit, but I gotta believe that if and when anyone calls from another department he's going to tell them what happened or what they suspected me of, right? At the very least if they say "Is this person eligible for rehire?" Of course he's not going to say yes.

Should I even bother trying to get on anywhere else?
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