Police finding it hard to fill vacancies

[redstar2000]

Originally posted by Washington Post
Police finding it hard to fill vacancies

Police departments around the country are contending with a shortage of officers and trying to lure new applicants with signing bonuses, eased standards, house down payments and extra vacation time.

From this seaside Southern California city to Washington's suburbs, more than 80 percent of the nation's 17,000 law enforcement agencies, big and small, have vacancies that many can't fill, police officials estimate.

"People are not as equipped or as inclined to be police officers as in the past," said Barbara Raymond, who has researched the police shortage for Rand Corp. "There's more drug use, there's a more sedentary lifestyle. People are more in debt and overweight."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12029579/

Or perhaps inspite of all the pro-pig propaganda on the dummyvision, people don't see becoming a ruling class mercenary as a "fun way" to spend one's life.

Oddly enough, the churches can't find enough people who want to be clergymen either. :lol:

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[Atlas Swallowed]

Thats surprising with all the right wing idiots around you would think they would want to drive around with a gun and abuse power. It is a perfect job for a bully. As for clergymen did not know thier was a shortage of pedophiles, thats a good thing.

[Tungsten]

Atlas Swallowed

It is a perfect job for a bully.
When are you joining up?

[VonClausewitz]

All government services find it hard to find workers, at least in this country, because the private sector offers better pay and fancy retirement funds basically. There aren't too many people that base their choice of work on their politics I don't think.

Churches will have a shortage of clergymen - there was a bit of a surge in church building during the 18th-19th centuries, when everyone got even more religious. This surge calmed, and the whole thing is now in a general decline, so thus too many churches. Methinks an over-abundance of actual institutions is the problem, as the important posts will be filled.

[red team]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 06:26 PM
Atlas Swallowed

It is a perfect job for a bully.
When are you joining up?
:lol: :lol: :lol: That's extremely, ironically funny coming from someone like you who advocates punishment for "plunder" as indicated by your sig.

It's ironic because nobody wants to defend your plunder.

[Atlas Swallowed]

Originally posted by [email protected] 27 2006, 06:26 PM
Atlas Swallowed

It is a perfect job for a bully.
When are you joining up?
Cute, if I were a bully I would take the cowards way out and support the system. Bullies oppose those weaker than themselves not more powerful. I should have added idiots also so you would feel included, sorry :( I would suggest you join the local force but mommy would not want junior in harms way.

[Tungsten]

red team

It's ironic because nobody wants to defend your plunder.
I don't advocate plunder of any variety.
Atlas Swallowed

Cute, if I were a bully I would take the cowards way out and support the system.
You support a system that's even more force-driven than the one we have at the moment.

[cyu]

You support a system that's even more force-driven than the one we have at the moment.

In what way? Is not force applied to evict employees from their workplaces if they decide to run it democratically?

[Jaden]

Or maybe it's also because people don't want to get shot just because they pulled someone over for speeding, or have to babysit highschool kids. There was a funeral today for a police officer who pull over a car for speeding and when he got to the window he got shot in the face. And recently in my town, more and more policemen are being used to watch the rich High school kids so they don't ditch. Waste of a police force ... but then again expected.

[violencia.Proletariat]

Waste of a police force ... but then again expected

Actually if they are baby sitting rich kids its a very good thing. There wont be as many out on the streets beating poor people!

[timbaly]

In New York there seems to be no shortage at all despite the last recruited class taking a severe entry level pay cut. Their salary was lowered to about $25,000 not including overtime. For the risk involved with the job I am surprised that people are still willing to do it in such high numbers. There seems to be no worries about filling in the eight hundred new positions for next year.

[red team]

What did you expect?

New York has the greatest concentration of billionaires and multi-millionaires in the world.

New York is also the most unequal city in America with huge swaths of the population living in poverty.

and as Light Bulb Filament quotes in his sig.:

Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.

When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.

It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder. - Frederic Bastiat


Welcome to police state America! :o

[Atlas Swallowed]

Originally posted by [email protected] 28 2006, 06:58 PM
You support a system that's even more force-driven than the one we have at the moment.
No conception of Anarchism, aye. The only force would directed at your wealthy masters, puppy dog not innocent people in other countries who are getting the shit blown out of them.

[Atlas Swallowed]

Originally posted by [email protected] 29 2006, 02:22 AM
Or maybe it's also because people don't want to get shot just because they pulled someone over for speeding, or have to babysit highschool kids. There was a funeral today for a police officer who pull over a car for speeding and when he got to the window he got shot in the face.
A young piggy was about to shoot me in the face when he pulled me over for an inspection sticker in Endicott NY a few years ago. I was trying to get my wallet out of my back pocket but it was stuck. He pulled out his pistol, aimed it at my head and yelled "What the hell are you doing". I started laughing and explained to him I was trying to get my wallet and besides a handgun would not fit up my ass. He put his gun away when I pulled out my wallet was still irate probably because I did not fear him and did not take him seriously. You carry weapons and harass people expect to be shot at. Fuck the pigs.

[Tungsten]

red team

Welcome to police state America&#33;<<
How does that justify and neccesitate a police state?
Atlas Swallowed

No conception of Anarchism, aye. The only force would directed at your wealthy masters,
No conception of anarchism, then?