Reply to Will DC eve go back to being somewhat tough on crime?

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Will DC eve go back to being somewhat tough on crime?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly.  What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage.  I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months.  We could pay a premium to attract them.[/quote]

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers[/quote]

No one wants to be a cop, or at least not the quality of applicant you had 20 years ago.

As a former Atlanta Police Department officer said, “You’re a split second away from death or indictment.”

Police work can be messy. Unfortunately, with the internet and smart phones, if a cop kills someone with a gun, we immediately see an elementary school photo of the criminal and learn about his dreams to attend Harvard.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics