Posted on 06/22/2015 6:35:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There are plenty of police forces in the safer counties surrounding Baltimore city. There are likely to be sufficient defections to nearly cripple the department. They’ll soon be recruiting new officers from the pool of their favorite unregistered voting base, recently incarcerated thugs.
He’s been in the position for 3 years? So what has he done since then? This rhetoric he’s spewing is only as a result of Freddie Gray. It’s more than likely that the Union has contractual agreements in place that require the State to provide a specific amount of training for each officer on a yearly basis. If they haven’t been following the department’s policies, then that should have been reflected on their periodic evaluations, which I’m sure are also required based on contractual agreements, or Civil Service Law. If he plans on targeting certain officers, and he doesn’t have the paper trail to support his allegations against them, he isn’t going to be very successful. You can’t all of a sudden claim someone isn’t doing the job properly and can them, if you don’t have documentation to support it.
If I were a municipal police officer, I would be seriously thinking about getting out of the cities and getting a job in a nice small town like Mayberry RFD. Policing anywhere except a town where folks know and trust each other is going to become a huge risk for law enforcement officers.
Maybe the pay is less, but you arguably run less risk of getting killed, or being set up by your own employer to be the scapegoat for some political correctness grievance about law enforcement.
Batts has bats in his belfry. The community doesn’t write the policing policy, but this moron is letting them.
Same thing with the Border Patrol officers. I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to have to go into work every day, and not be allowed to do the job you were trained for.
This sounds like a failure of management. How many supervisors are going to get pink slips?
The author Stephen Hunter has a book entitled Soft Target. The main character is a former Marine sniper who happens to be in a large shopping mall when a bunch of terrorist attack and seal of the building. Outside, the police chief, a devotee of “progressive policing” issues multiple stand down orders while trying to engage the terrorists in dialogue to see what they really want. In the meantime, said terrorists kill a few innocents.
Marine sniper manages to get hold of a rifle after killing a terrorist and with the aid of a rogue cop on the roof, manage to wrest control of the situation through targeted attrition of the terrorists.
Police chief ends up with a huge promotion for his utter failure and cowardice.
Every time Batts opens his mouth, I think of this book. Soft Target.
I live 30 miles north of Baltimore and just took a new position where I work mainly from home, rarely setting foot in the cesspool.
I believe your version is correct.
Affirmative Action and/or the Peter principal is on display in Baltimore.
I wouldn’t wait for this affirmative action moron to fire me - I would already be gone.
Democrats created every single ghetto in America.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Me thinks the Police Commissioner is BATTSHIT CRAZY.
All who agree applaud or raise your hands.
[Video of movie audience applauding, please, someone]
A kinder, gentler police! Yes, that will solve Baltimore’s problems!
A few police dept leaders trying to save face after letting their city burn down or hundreds of front line cops? I’m going to believe the latter.
The community demanded a police force that leaves them alone. They did. How did that work out for the homicide rate last month?
outdated, outmoded views of policing do not match the standards the community expects and demands
Code Words for some black people are unhappy .........
It can be argued that the transformation to third world hell holes has already occurred
the populations have reverted to third world mindset because they are simply unable to exist in the modern world. this process of feralization is being aided and abetted by this police commissioner who lacks the will to resist political influence and enforce the law.
Freedom requires responsibility that this vast section of the population can not muster
BATTS SHOULD CAPITALIZE ON HIS ABILITY TO SEE EVENTS BEFORE THEY HAPPEN....he shoudl open a palm reading studio
what is this guy but a political puppet player trying to keep his job...
they are doing everything possible to appease the local and imported thugs
THIS FARCE IS BEING CHOREOGRAPHED BY THE WHITE HOUSE THE THUG IN CHIEF.... THE GREAT DIVIDER.... HE WANT A NATIONAL POLICE FORCE (HIS BROWN SHIRTS)
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