The Dallas County Sheriff's Office Is Dumb As A Box Of Rocks

[bj229r]

Originally posted by Bronk
I'll bet you live in a small town.
 Most small town police become "traffic nazis". They have nothing better to do than hassle anyone breaking the smallest traffic infraction. So if you go 37 in a 35 be prepared for the ticket.

Edit: After you figure out their speed trap locations they start to fit the protect and serve criteria. Instead of the cite and harass.

Yah. Lived in Tampa for 20 years, where a dead body once prevented me from using an off-ramp....moved back to VA, more cops per capita than in a big city, but no crime to fight. Perhaps a bit in Roanoke, but certainly not out in the country

[FrodeMk3]

Originally posted by -Concho-
I was in Beaumont the day they re-opened it for the public after Rita.

We had 1000 out of 1500 uniformed Troops an untold ammount of U/C guys on station.  

Execpt for a few isolated events things went off with out a hitch.

There are a lot of "city cops" who aren't qualified to write a speeding ticket muchless be around when things get a little hairy, but please don't lump us all into one lot.

CC, I hear ya. It's just that bad press is like crap, It always floats' to the top.

The real debate of that whole thing, though, is that nothing should happen that causes' the bad press to begin with.

[bsdaddict]

Originally posted by Rich46yo
Do tell. And was this all 400,000 Texas cops or just a few?

                         Im sorry about your brother. But it wasn a LEO that killed him right?

of course it wasn't a LEO who killed him.  But it did take a concerted effort on the part of HPD, the Harris County Sheriff's office, the local constable and some rent-a-cops to bungle the investigation, and I'm naturally iunimpressed with the outcome.

[kilz]

texas going to watermelon since i lived there

[Curval]

Originally posted by Shamus
Well you do know that they are getting paid to do the paperwork anyway right?

shamus

No, the offer is being made as a competition to make as many DUI arrests as possible.  As a result:

1.  The offenders do not appear to need to be convicted, only arrested.
2,  As a result of 1. then to win you would need to make as manny arrests as possible
3.  All the additional arrests made in 2. would require ADDITIONAL paperwork and work in general for the officers.

Bottom line is they are being tempted to do a whole bunch of extra work....for $50.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by john9001
instead of 'protect and serve' they should put bounty hunter on their cars.

Its like I keep saying.
Cops are used less and less for actual police work.
And more and more as armed gunmen demanding your money as a source of revenue collection.

Its a legalised shakedown

Is this the cops fault?
nope.
They just follow the orders of their superiours

[Shamus]

Originally posted by Curval
No, the offer is being made as a competition to make as many DUI arrests as possible.  As a result:

1.  The offenders do not appear to need to be convicted, only arrested.
2,  As a result of 1. then to win you would need to make as manny arrests as possible
3.  All the additional arrests made in 2. would require ADDITIONAL paperwork and work in general for the officers.

Bottom line is they are being tempted to do a whole bunch of extra work....for $50.

Hmm, in Bermuda the leo's have to do paperwork on their own time? Over here they get paid to do that. we even pay them to appear in court if you can imagine.

shamus

[Curval]

Originally posted by Shamus
Hmm, in Bermuda the leo's have to do paperwork on their own time? Over here they get paid to do that. we even pay them to appear in court if you can imagine.

shamus

More work for $50 is the bottom line here Shamus.  I don't see why you have a hard time understanding that.  Yes they will get paid to do the work but not any more than they already are.  This incentive scheme is effectively asking cops to do more work for only a $50 incentive.

[Shamus]

Originally posted by Curval
More work for $50 is the bottom line here Shamus.  I don't see why you have a hard time understanding that.  Yes they will get paid to do the work but not any more than they already are.  This incentive scheme is effectively asking cops to do more work for only a $50 incentive.

Well Curval I don't think that is the bottom line, you need to brush up on the concept of overtime.

shamus