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Until recently, our tickets were still on stone tablets, filled out with chiseled hieroglyphics. Talk about "press hard" when the offender signed...

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I've done all kinds of things through the years...mini breaker/pry bars, pens with window breaker ends, bottle breachers with customized names. Other Sgts have done bail-out bags or t-shirts. I had a Chief who got everyone a bottle of liquor every year (he was a good chief). It's more about showing...

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Rookie numbers, CCCSD.

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Exactly. Illinois being pro-union, I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that Scotty worked under a contract. If he does, he's likely to find very similar wording in his regarding progressive discipline and termination. This is not, to my knowledge, a regional variance (outside of certain regions being unionized...

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Generally, a termination-level offense will require one of two things...1. a repeated violation of the same or similar policy, resulting in progressive discipline up to the level of termination, OR 2. a violation so heinous that it, in and of itself, justifies termination. This kind of wording has been...

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I've got the head of that mutant bastard on my hobby room wall!

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Not only will you be DQ'ed, you'll likely be drug out behind the station house and beaten by a mob of game wardens for your heinous offense!

Seriously, as long as you're honest and upfront about it, it's unlikely to be even a minor speedbump in the average hiring process. LEO candidates...

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Sheriff's offices are the only LE in my state that are permitted to hire under the age of 21. My local SO has hired one 18 year old that I can remember...it did not turn out well....

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The problems come when those in LE, especially those in administrative positions, fail to stand up to the political hurricane. If the choice is "political survival" over "what's right," you've made the wrong choice. There ARE, in fact, certain hills we should be willing to die on...