DEFENDTHISHOUSE
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Just curious, but if I'm a mailman, meter reader, HVAC repairman or visitor came on my property and my dog runs up on them, can they shoot my dog and suffer the same consequences as a cop?
Just curious, but if I'm a mailman, meter reader, HVAC repairman or visitor came on my property and my dog runs up on them, can they shoot my dog and suffer the same consequences as a cop?
All of this has forced Dallas Police CHief Renee Hall to consider more creative recruiting strategies.
The recruitment shortage thats occurred as a result in some areas is forcing police departments to develop creative strategies for luring millennial recruits to the force. In January, Hall plans to roll out a program that will give a total of four to six days off for officers that recruit someone who is hired and graduates from the academy.
According to Fox 4, both the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue are struggling to find people who want to protect and serve. Both chiefs told city council members that recruiting millennials has proven challenging.
"We have nights, weekends and holidays not attractive to millennials who want all days off and to be the chief in six months, Chief Hall said. We recognize that is a challenge."
"The other challenge they're job hopping every five years, added Dallas Fire Chief David Coatney.
Meanwhile, the opioid crisis has rendered hundreds of thousands of young men and women ineligible for law-enforcement service.
Additionally, Hall plans to start recruiting Dallas ISD students and hiring them as public service officers until they can be peace officers at age 19-and-a-half. She says it is within her power as chief to hire applicants who would currently not qualify because they admit to infractions like minor drug use.
"We recognize that when you're 17 and you do something silly or stupid, you're a different person when you're 24, she said.
Reuters found more than 1,000 cases of people who died after being shocked by Tasers used by police in America. A quarter of the people who died were suffering from a mental health breakdown or neurological disorder, Reuters reports, and in nine of every 10 incidents, the deceased was unarmed. More than 100 of the [1,000+] fatal encounters began with a 911 call for help during a medical emergency.
Still fighting the good fight, Tim. I'd ask you to explain your statement but we all know you aren't going to present anything of substance. Just trolling as per usual.
Nah. Like watching a bunch of kids all torn up over a weed arrest. The thing is, I dont have to present anything of substance. I've lived it. I know what goes on outside of the comfort of my home. Those news reports you see every night are real, its not x box. It gets ugly out there and it isn't getting better.
Build more prisons and fill em up.
Yep, you have admitted time and time again your bias is so overwhelming you are incapable of ever seeing anything the police do as wrong and/or overzealous. You just claimed this little traffic stop which got a miniscule amount of weed off the street is helping the community more than anything else anyone here has done.. ever.
If any of us ever volunteered to feed the homeless, I'd say that is doing for more for the community than "busting" someone for a few grams.
So, like I said. Keep up the good fight, bootlicker.