It gets to the point where there is nowhere to turn in any state or any government.
"Police training sites see little use; Academies stay open during budget crisis" by Andrea Estes, Globe Staff | May 25, 2009
It is a training school without new trainees.
The state's Municipal Police Training Committee, which prepares police recruits from across the state for their new assignments, has not launched a single program for new officers in more than six months.
As the state's budget crisis has curtailed hiring by most local police departments, demand has dried up for the agency's 20-week basic training program that has been its mainstay. The schedule on the agency's website is blank.
Nevertheless, the training committee has continued to keep open its five academies (plus a sixth that doesn't offer basic training), with more than 25 full-time staffers and a budget of $2.9 million a year, leading some to question why the state is continuing to operate little-used academies.
Because wasting money is what they do best?
Public safety officials acknowledge the economy has put a virtual halt on the need for training new recruits. But they say the academies still serve an important role - training veteran officers, who must be recertified periodically in practices such as firearms use and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The academies also offer advanced training in specialized areas such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and narcotics investigations....
Michael Widmer, president of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, a nonprofit group that is funded by state businesses, said consolidating police training facilities makes sense, especially now.
"We're not going to be hiring many police for a long time," he said. "At a time when programs are being cut across all of state government, this appears to be an opportunity for savings with minimal consequences."
Said Senator Richard Tisei, a Republican of Wakefield: "Given that we're looking at everything else, we should probably look and see if there are any cost savings or consolidations that can take place here."
Some local police chiefs say they haven't used the state's facilities in years. In the rare instances a police officer position becomes available, towns covered by civil service must offer the job first to laid-off officers, who have already received basic training.
Others say they rarely send their officers to the committee's facilities, even for in-service programs, because they are too far from their headquarters and police departments have to pay overtime and mileage when officers attend....
The committee is considering consolidating the academies.
They have to form a committee for that?
Last summer, faced with a $600,000 budget gap, the panel approved a plan to close facilities in Boylston, Plymouth, and New Bedford. The plan was reversed after the Legislature appropriated additional funds, said Kurt Schwartz, the Executive Office of Public Safety's under secretary for law enforcement and fire services.
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.... "At any point during this struggle Officer Clarke was in grave danger of being pulled over the side of the building to his certain death."
Orsino and his partner had responded to the call Friday just as the victim jumped over the edge, he said in an interview last night. "You could look up and see they were hanging onto the guy, which is no easy task," he said.
Boston police and Tufts Medical officials would not provide the name of the jumper or information on his condition. Police said he was taken to the hospital for evaluation Friday night.
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Of course, when it comes to robbery, no one beats Boston's bobbies!
No wonder classes are closed at the academy!
As Boston police face cuts in their rank and file, Commissioner Edward F. Davis has beefed up his command staff, increasing the payroll by about 6 percent and adding positions that were handled by lower-paid officials, according to a Globe review....
They TRULY DO THINK it is THERE MONEY, not yours -- and they are supposed to PROTECT and SERVE?
According to a Globe review, the department will be paying $3.19 million in salaries to 22 superintendents and deputy superintendents - $173,000 more than earned by the previous 21-member command staff.
That's about $145k a head!
That money would have saved only a few of the department employees threatened with pink slips.
Of course, if it is YOU getting the SLIP, well, hey, DAVIS and HIS BUDDIES got a raise!! OVER THREE MILLION DOLLARS WORTH!
How many $60,000/year cops would that pay for, huh?
Just remember WHO SCREWED YA when it comes time to lay the lumber to the public, 'eh?
Mayor Thomas M. Menino has proposed cutting 67 police officers, 23 police cadets, and 12 civilians in his budget. City officials also have expressed hope that federal grants could save the officers’ jobs. But union officials said the command staff changes send the wrong message to a department demoralized by cuts to overtime and to districts hurting from a lack of supervisors patrolling the city’s toughest neighborhoods and beats.
“We need more help on the streets, rather than in headquarters,’’ said Lieutenant Joseph G. Gillespie, president of the Boston Police Superior Officers Federation. “It’s getting unsafe out there.’’
Davis said the changes in his command staff will make the department more efficient, maintain racial diversity in the upper ranks, and accomplish his goal of improving community policing, a philosophy that prioritizes preventing crime. But if financial pressures on the department intensify, he said he will reconsider demoting more commanders....
I don't know how THROWING MORE MONEY AWAY while the STATE is ALLEGEDLY BLEEDING and the REST of us are told to PAY MORE TAXES (for this?) while TIGHTENING OUR BELTS!!!!
As for the changes at the academy, Davis said he needs top brass there to implement new training programs, including a computer program that will allow officers to take courses and tests in their own districts, rather than use overtime to go to the academy for classes and exams.
“We’re investing heavily in training,’’ Davis said. Menino “made it clear when I first got here that one of his mandates was to better the training we offer to our officers,’’ he said.
Command staff officials have made some sacrifices. Davis, like other department heads across the city, took a 3 percent pay cut this year. And deputy superintendents and superintendents, like other union members, did not get a raise this year....
Oh, HOW HARSH!!!
And now watch him PLEAD POVERTY when it comes to the HORSES!
"Mounted police cut tough call, Davis says; Disbanding unit will save $700,000" by Matt Collette, Globe Correspondent | June 24, 2009
Boston’s police commissioner defended yesterday his plan to dismantle the department’s mounted unit, which has emerged as a symbol of the deep cuts the city is being forced to make in next year’s budget.
“Just like an umpire in baseball, you might not like every call,’’ Commissioner Edward F. Davis said at a Boston City Council hearing. “But that’s the decision we made. I had to choose between animals and people, and I chose people.’’
To the tune of $3 MILLION BUCKS!! So what would it have cost to save the horses?
Eliminating the mounted unit will save the department an estimated $700,000 annually, he said. The City Council still has to approve the budget.
“On July 1, I have no money to feed these horses,’’ Davis said.
Well, I KNOW WHERE YOU COULD FIND $3 MILLION BUCKS, Ed!
The mounted unit, the nation’s first, was founded in 1873....
Tradition, history -- those only matter when sending people to war on lies.
The horses will be sent to the New York City Police Department, the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department, and private organizations. Davis said the contracts, which had not been finalized by yesterday, will include provisions to bring the horses back if the city’s finances improve.
The sergeant and nine officers in the mounted unit will be given new assignments in the city. The mounted unit’s patrols will be taken over by police officers on bicycles, Davis said.
Oh, I'm sure the cops are going to LOVE THAT!!!
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You KNOW BIKES MAKE YOU IMPOTENT, right?
I KNOW from FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE!!!!
Get BACK on that HORSE, copper!
CHICAGO - As hundreds of jobs in Chicago’s police department go unfilled, officers who once patrolled the streets with partners are riding alone in what some cops bitterly call “rolling coffins.’’
In a Pennsylvania town that disbanded its three-member police force, Anita Gricar worries that officers from the neighboring town won’t come fast enough if she calls for help. She also misses the comfort that came from having officers who knew everyone and everything about Versailles, Pa., population 1,700....
No, Johnny Flatfoot doesn't work her anymore.
This is what the nation’s economic crisis looks like in law enforcement. As tax revenue shrivels, police agencies that for years were bulletproof when it came to funding are tightening their belts. Some worry that criminals will take advantage of the situation.
Politicians are already doing their "work."
“There are consequences for every cut that is made. With the recession, people out of work, criminal offenses are going to go up . . . immediately,’’ said Steve Dye, an assistant police chief in Garland, Texas, and an International Association of Chiefs of Police official.
How many officers are losing their jobs and how many positions are going unfilled is unclear. But one after another, departments are telling the International Association of Chiefs of Police that officers are being laid off or taking furloughs, positions are being left vacant, and police forces are closing or consolidating. “I’ve been in law enforcement for 25 years and if you would have talked about laying off policemen, people would not have believed you,’’ Dye said.
The cuts come as police departments are being asked to take on more responsibilities, such as investigating domestic terrorism, said John Firman, director of research for the police chiefs association.
Well, BLOW the WHISTLE on the FALSE-FLAG CRAP, then!!
NYC COPS KNOW 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB!
The GOVERNMENT told 'em the AIR WAS SAFE, remember?
There is some help on the way, in the form of federal stimulus money, but the need may far outstrip the aid. For example, the $1 billion that the Justice Department’s Community Oriented Policing Services received to hire officers nationwide is less than one-eighth of the money agencies requested, said Fred Wilson, director of operations at the National Sheriffs’ Association.
They never tire of pimping the government to the rescue story.
Btw, WHERE is that EFFIN' MONEY?
They PASSED the DAMN THING FOUR MONTHS AGO!!!!
In the Southern California community of El Monte, dominated by huge car dealerships, the police department laid off 17 of its 148 officers as three of the dealerships went under and sales at the others plummeted, reducing the town’s tax revenue.
In Chicago, with a police force of about 13,000, the number of vacancies has climbed to more than 400 since January 2008 because the department is not hiring to keep up with the number of officers who leave. The city could be down 800 officers by the end of the year, said Mark Donahue, president of the police union.
Well, less tyranny isn't so bad.
The danger of one-person squad cars was seen last summer in Chicago when Officer Richard Francis, riding alone, responded to a disturbance involving a mentally ill woman. During a struggle, the woman allegedly grabbed Francis’s gun and killed the 27-year veteran.
Oh, so THE AUTHORTIES and STATE OFFICIALS don't really CARE about YOU, do they, flatfoot!? Then COME ON OVER, folks, because WE NEED YA!!
Also, more officers are being attacked on the streets, and police say that is because they can no longer flood the scene with officers when they respond to a call. The number of incidents of battery against a police officer in Chicago rose from 2,677 to 3,158 between 2007 and 2008, according to department statistics.
What about the POLICE TASERINGS and BEATINGS, MSM?
Also see: AmeriKa's Police State in Action
Killers of Carol Ann Gotbaum Go Free
Boston Police Whitewash Woodman Murder
Chicago officer gets probation for beating bartender
Wow!! ONE-SIDED THERE, pro-police state MSM!
In Broward County, Fla., Sheriff Al Lamberti worries that attacks by inmates on deputies and each other will increase because he must lay off 68 of his 1,500 jail deputies. In addition, 100 civilians are being laid off at the county’s jails, which house about 5,000 people.
In addition, he has eliminated jail programs that, among other things, help inmates overcome addiction and stop beating their kids. “We are at the point where we are literally out of options,’’ Lamberti said. “I never thought in a million years this would happen.’’
Look, the crying poverty is getting to me. I don't know about the other states, but we got plenty of money here if you know where to look.
Pigs at the State Trough
A Slow Saturday Special: Statehouse Slush Fund
Hollywood S***s on Massachusetts
Biotech Giveaway Was Borrowed Money
Massachusetts Residents Taken For a Ride
How many times I gotta put 'em up?
In El Monte, layoffs forced the department to shut down programs such as one in which officers served as mentors to young people likely to get into trouble.
“Now we’re going to be responding when a kid slaps his mom instead of having him in a program where they can teach him to respect his parents,’’ said Lieutenant Charles Carlson.
I learned respect from my mom when I did something like that. She wailed my ass and it never happened again. Maybe that's why older generations are better behaved than today's loudmouth, world-owes-them-a-living, Zionist-brainwashed s**heads!
In Kansas City, Mo., only 45 police officer jobs have gone unfilled, but there is a very real possibility that the 31 cadets scheduled to graduate in August will be laid off before they can even start work. “And we may not be able to have another academy class until 2011,’’ said Major David Zimmerman.
Hey, THAT'S US: Graduating to Unemployment
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