I didn't even know the SJPD worked during regular time.
Posted on 08/26/2016 10:06:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Some SJPD cops are working so much overtime, they're forced to stay in RVs at department headquarters
The officer shortage at the San Jose Police Department is hitting a critical point as officers say they're forced to work so much overtime that some are camping out in the parking lot.
It's beginning to look like an RV park next to police headquarters. Inside the motor homes, officers are just trying to get what little sleep they can.
"You don't know when you're a San Jose police officer when you're going home," said James Gonzales, vice president of the San Jose Police Officers Association. "You don't know when your day off is going to be because we have mandatory overtime."
That can mean 17-hour days, Gonzales said, and for some of the men and women who commute from the Central Valley, it's safer to just sleep near work than drive home after a long shift.
"Quite frankly, it's embarrassing," Gonzales said. "But a lot of them don't have a choice because they can't get home before they're required to come back to work." San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said he was stunned to hear about the police campers.
"This is a very sad sign of the times," he said.
Liccardo said next week, the City Council will consider an item that would bypass state labor laws and put 47 officers now in investigations back on patrol to relieve tired colleagues.
"To enable the police chief to be able to deploy more officers out into the neighborhoods for patrol," Liccardo said. "Which is a critical Band-aid we need in place." Both Gonzales and Liccardo are pushing for Measure F this November, claiming it would cure the staffing crisis.
Hey, no problemo. Just do what the mayor of San Jose did when Trump held a rally there. Tell the cops to forget law enforcement and stay home.
Maybe is what is needed is another Trump rally so the SJ cops can take some time off and not do their job.
Well pay back time, this is the City that stood down at the Trump Rally and so many People were injured by allll the illegals running things.
I didn't even know the SJPD worked during regular time.
Too bad, it's what ya get when ya kneel to a Mexican Mayor and Prog Brass.
This cannot last for much longer before the fatique starts to affect their decision making and response time. These officers are only human. It’s not their fault that there aren’t enough cops to properly keep control. A similar event occurred when Donald Rumsfeld kept sending military personal back for repeated tours in Afghanistan, because there was a small pool of qualified people available.
Who would that Mexican mayor be?
Jose Much Gracias?
They’re accenting how tough this is on the officers but perhaps some of them are very happy about the overtime pay and the resultant effect on their pensions.
Sounds like someone (cough, cough police union) is trying to stoke the fires to get their pensions boosted! (Measure F) See: http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_30277115/san-jose-another-legal-challenge-against-replacing-measure
That overtime is extremely lucrative.
How can they afford RVs? Aren’t they expensive?
Yes. Very.
They also require power, water and septic. Kinda curious where all that's coming from in that police HQ parking lot. d:^)
What a load of BS. I bet it’s all overtime. Cops making two hundred grand a year NOT protecting citizens. Yeah, makes me wanna call them heroes.
“Measure F” is not going to solve their staffing problem. Moving detectives back to patrol is a “Band-Aid” as they’ve already acknowledged. It is re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Their problems are two fold. One, they don’t have enough people, hence the OT. Two, the people they do have commute 100 miles to work because, lavishly compensated as they are, they still can’t afford housing anywhere near San Jose proper where a three bedroom bungalow costs a million bucks.
Sorry to the Freepers left in Cali (all three of you) but that state is paving the way to Venezuela. The sooner it collapses the less damage it will do to the rest of us.
You guys realize that this is a scam. PD LOVE OVERTIME. Especially if they can bump up their pay before they retire. Cmon, you really think these clowns are “suffering”. They are laughing all the way to the bank hoping to get a “knee” or “back” injury.
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