Freedom of Speech (except for LEOs)

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'A year or two time served'. LoL you make it sound like a stint in the pen. Reckon I did 27 years hard time then....

Are you a tribal member? That will get you waaaayy more traction than attending a BIA academy.

I hate to always be peeing...

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It's a beautiful thing, is it not, to not be concerned about an opinion....

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"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

-Albert Einstein

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I'm a big fan of the 1st Amendment. I like being able to opine freely without fear of the Stasi kicking in my door and taking me to a re-education camp. Freedom of speech is uniquely American in its roots, and doesn't exist in most places around the world (an example this week was the journalist in...

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RE: Co-workers. Work co-workers are like summer camp friends...

At summer camp, you made best friends for life. Every day was filled with adventure and camaraderie. Every night was campfires and twinkling stars.

On the last day, you hugged your new BFFs and said you'd write...

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Hiring 30 total, which is a lot, but need to fill the spots from all the people who quit in disgust or retire the first day of eligibility....

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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

-Malcolm Forbes

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Dude.... it's the city of Detroit. Not exactly a well oiled machine we're talking.

It's good preparation for the dysfunction you'll be immersed in someday. Bombed out neighborhoods with roaming packs of rotts and pitbulls on one side of the street and wild haired addicts screaming at the...

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HIV rate for Glynn County is above national average so don't go muddaubbing in local honey holes.

If you stay off-campus, keep nothing of value in your hotel room. Many a laptop has been stolen from those fleabags.

They can call them palmetto bugs all they want- they're still...

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I'm gonna hold judgement because I don't have all the facts. Here's why....

I've been through five academies (at all levels of govt) and there were tests that cheating was not allowed and there were tests that, well, let's just say the lines weren't so clear.....

Examples:...

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Well, either you know the reason and are playing dumb right now, or you have blinders on and can't acknowledge (or accept) what the issue was....

My recommendation? Move on. The world is full of freight managers who wanted to be fighter pilots and bricklayers who wanted to be baseball players....

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Next time you have a day off, put on a suit and tie and your stiffest shoes. Then at midnight, go stand in your hallway between the kitchen and the garage. Stand there until 10am, and give yourself breaks every other hour. No looking at your phone or any other distractions. Repeat the next night and...

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You don't try to reticulate.... what does that even mean?


I thought I knew some big words but even I had to look it up. From Miriam Webster:

1 : resembling a net or network especially : having veins, fibers, or lines crossing a

leaf. 2 : being or involving

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Ya know, when I look back on my 27 year run, I knew certain things going in. Like the job was dangerous, and that it required dedication, and bad people do bad things.

What caught me totally off guard were the institutional dynamics, like how some people get crapped on because someone...

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So I am familiar with a situation and I figured I parse through it in case others have seen it....

It involves a grossly unfit manager, the type who sows chaos and destroys everything he touches. Subordinates are treated like cowsh*t under his shoe. Important partnerships and inter-agency...

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I spent 27 years on the job, 2/3 of that as an 1811. Your 1811 experience? You have some apps in...

I know what I know and I know this: education is a good thing but means next to nothing when the blood and teeth on the ground is your own or your partners.

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Even if the case gets tossed later in court, at least the situation was made safe at time of stop....

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I'm no hiring official but if I were, and two applications were on my desk where one had a PhD w/no experience and the other had a BA with five years experience, I would take the low BA guy every time.......

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1. Some states give full police powers to federal agents, some give none, and some give limited authority (i.e.- emergency situations, mutual aid, warrant service, etc.).

2. Regardless of the authority, sometimes agents find themselves in situations where action must be taken.
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Oh, I've definitely crossed that line. Les Stroud would play lost in the woods for a couple of days, eat some bugs and moss, and play harmonica before returning to the Holiday Inn. I'm stocking up on anti-biotics and buying precious metals and thinking through what-ifs, like what if some weird Chinese...