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Police Details and the Boston Police Union,prada
By now, you've heard about the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association (BPPA), its labor dispute with the city, and the implications for the DNC. If not, please read my previous rants, er, posts on the subject here, here, here, here, here,MCM 店舗, here,http://bromak.co.uk/General/diorsale.html, here,chloe, and here.
I went over to the BPPA site to see their upcoming protest schedule. I found no scheduled future protests (yet), but once again saw something I didn't fully process until today. Conference of Mayors, which ended yesterday.
Paid details are private uses of uniformed police. They are mandated at construction sites on public roads and are optional for other events like big parties or outdoor fundraisers where the presence of an officer is thought to be helpful for traffic or safety. The detail officer's pay comes from the utility or the contractor or party host, who usually lets the city handle the billing and actually writes the check to the city, which of course charges a fee for the administration of the detail.
Here's the thing: paid details are the lifeblood of a union cop. Probably even closer to a cop's heart than the Quinn Bill, paid details are the benefit cops most fear losing. Periodically, some new state representative or public policy advocate will suggest doing away with the paid detail in favor of some other,MCM 店舗, more efficient, method of protecting work sites. Before being run out of town or otherwise gently persuaded to withdraw the proposal, most of these reformers are told the error of their ways. You don't challenge police unions if you want to get re-elected.
When such reform proposals come up, cops trot out their standard arguments in favor of the details. Chief among the arguments is the assertion that public safety is enhanced by the details. Paid details mean more uniformed cops on the street than would otherwise be out in public. Once in a while, a detail cop will intervene in a crime or help at an accident that occurs nearby his detail. In those instances, the union will trumpet the public good created by the detail: "Thank God Officer Kelly was standing by that Verizon truck when the drunk driver knocked over the stop sign. Otherwise, he might never have been caught."
The claim of enhanced public safety due to details is mostly bogus. And details themselves are a complete waste of everyone's money. When was the last time you saw a benefit to having a cop at a work site? Often, they just sit in their cars and read the paper. Or pace about and chat with the workers. Hell, I don't blame them. I've worked details. They're boring. Really stupifyingly, mind-killingly, zeal-crushingly boring. But cops love them. That's how they pay for their boats.
So when Thomas Nee,ディオール 財布, president of the BPPA, tells his guys to stay home from the details, it's probably a good thing overall. But he can't have it both ways,MCM バッグ. After all, union members claim they will not do anything to endanger public safety.
Either details are good for public safety, in which case the refusal to work them is detrimental, or they're not. I think not. But the union thinks they are.
By its own position, then, the BPPA is endangering public safety in this selfish, greedy, labor dispute.
Every detail cop I ever see is chatting either with the workers (grousing about each others union woes I assume) or chatting on their cell phone (calling the marina to see when their boat can be put inthe water) I can recall the last time I actually saw a detail cop directing traffic or in hot pursuit of some wayward criminal who happened by the detail. must be nice to be able to earn an extra 20,GUCCI 財布,000 - 40,http://thecrewingcompany.com/jpprada.html,000 for dressing up in your uniform and hanging around.
All a crock of poop poo is what it is,http://bidsolutions.co.uk/mcmjp.html.
Exhibit A folks. First our right wing brother goes to the illegal alien argument. I going to have some fun with him and ask him to define "Non sequitor".
Then he gives us the argument that its all ok because private companies pay for the detail slugs. We have the highest utility rates in the nation and this bobo can put two and two together.
Any of you ever seen a detail slug make an arrest? We certainly driven past these slugs often enough. Ever seen one move.
Then we have the flagman argument. Bobo doesn seem to understand that a critical element of the problem is that neither flagman nor detail slugs are needed at 85% of these jobs. Of course we might be willing to compromise in those situations where a flagman is truly needed and use a cop but these slugs want their welfare checks and want to go to great lengths to convince us that they are deserving.
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