This is a friend of mine from the Marine Corps

**Honu** · 04-25-10, 17:29

Ditto irishluck

AND my own thoughts are
their are bad apples in every bunch !!!
sadly I feel in general civilization as we know it is slipping a bit ?
their is less care about others and more about one selves these days then ever before I feel

was chatting with my dad about his Korea experience and he said it made him sick how some of his fellow airforce officers would buy these girls for $40 or so a month and keep them in a house for sex when they had families back home !
kinda shows throughout history their has been bad people that dont care about others

its just now with so many people on the earth the odds are they will get into more positions that we should be able to trust
when the town had a sheriff and a few deputies things were easier than with thousands of people on a force and when they are trying to get people more will slip through the cracks

I feel the same about these judges who let child molesters off on easy or no sentencing ! I really really feel they are sickos to and dont feel like hurting their fellow pedophile friends

I say throw him in prison in gen pop and let the others know who he is and let him go that way he deserves it !!!!

this is also why sadly these days I do not trust to many people anymore and will never trust them with my children its just not worth it ?

**bubabootie** · 04-25-10, 17:45

its never the ones you'd suspect.

I had a friend who came to iraq and got hurt (by an accident) and went home early. Then he got a job for the VA back home, and downloaded kiddie porn on his work computer. Yeah he's going to prison for 5 years. Never thought that'd happen.

**dookie1481** · 04-25-10, 19:43

Originally Posted by bubabootie

its never the ones you'd suspect.

I had a friend who came to iraq and got hurt (by an accident) and went home early. Then he got a job for the VA back home, and downloaded kiddie porn on his work computer. Yeah he's going to prison for 5 years. Never thought that'd happen.

Yeah I had another buddy in my unit who is doing time for making meth. He was an older guy, 35 or so (that's old for an infantryman), with a family and two kids. He apparently was running meth up in Idaho. Last guy I would have thought would do that.

Jay

**l3mon** · 04-25-10, 19:49

Save the court cost, a bullet is cheaper. And I say let the victim do it if she's up to it..

**ST911** · 04-25-10, 20:21

Originally Posted by rob_s

Once upon a time I was looking into an LE career and actually assumed that not having a military background would work against me, but several departments and agencies said they preferred it in some cases. it's been a long time and I don't remember which ones though.

You'll find agencies that prefer applicants with military service, and agencies that want to avoid them. There are some that may ecven prefer or be averse to particular branches of service. I think most are somewhere in the middle, evaluating applicants on their individual merits.

This can be found in a number of professions, too.

I contemplate an applicant's military service in the same way as anything else they may have done. What they do, specifically? How well did they do it? Did they show skill/career progression? Did they distinguish themselves in some way? How does what they did, and how they did it, benefit the agency/community/mission?

In the end, I do still believe that when two applicants weigh out the same, the one that stepped up to serve should get the nod.

**ZDL** · 04-25-10, 20:37

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**CoryCop25** · 04-25-10, 21:17

I may be a bit off track here so I will apologize in advance. My department along with MOST departments in my county are Civil Service. This means military preference. After you pass the written exam for police testing, you receive 10 points. If you pass the test and get awarded these points, you are then given what's called preference. This means that if you are within the top 3 candidates, they MUST hire the one with the military preference. For example, I tested for a department about 7 years ago and my friend, a Marine, took the test with me. After the written test, I scored number 3 out of about 50 applicants. He scored dead last. He was awarded points and it brought him to number 2. Along with being bumped to #2, he was also given preference and subsequently hired.
Another change in the police hiring process that I have seen in my short time as a police officer is that the physical agility requirements have really been changed. In order to be accepted into the police academy, you must now pass a rigorous agility test. This entry test is almost exactly the test that you had to pass to graduate the police academy when I was there. What this is doing is weeding out the bigger, more muscular but slower guys, like myself for thinner more wirey YOUNGER less matured kids. I was 175 pounds when I graduated the academy in 1998 and I am starting to see a lot of 130-150 pound really young rookies.
I guess what I am saying in a nutshell is that military or not, the frequency of police officers finding themselves in the papers for doing dumb sh$& is because the quality of mature officers is suffering.