What were they thinking?
Posted: 28 Nov 2020 04:57
I would like to explain how the Mayor and City Council of Dallas oversee the safety of the citizens.
There is an enormous shortage of police officers in Dallas, that is well known. This presents a very serious safety issue to both the police officers and the citizens, this is well known.
Beginning with the new physical year, beginning October 1, 2020, the City Council of Dallas voted to reduce the funding for overtime pay to the Police Department, this was publicized and announced, this is well known.
So not paying officers for their overtime, instead they are given compensatory time at a rate of one and one half times the overtime. An example: If an officer works 2 hours overtime, he is given 3 hours compensatory time, which the officer can allow to accumulate to a full day or two or more full days.
Now myself being a person with common sense (I hope), it appears that this greatly affects the officer shortage that already exists. Am I wrong?
I am setting here listening to my police scanner on Dallas Police Channel 3, the channel for the Southeast area which includes South Dallas, Parkdale, Urbandale, Pleasant Grove and Kleberg.
It is 2:35 a.m. and the dispatcher is begging for Elements to take priority calls. This happens night after night. The problem all the Elements are already on Priority Calls.
When I was a rookie cop, being field trained at the Northeast Substation, we had a Shift Lieutenant that would often read from the Bible (he was kind of weird to say the least), but always closed with a prayer for the safety of all in attendance. He has long passed away, but I can only hope he is doing the same from Heaven.
Join me in praying for the safety of our First Responders, our Police Officers, Firefighters and Paramedics and this Virus Tragedy is only adding to the situation.
There is an enormous shortage of police officers in Dallas, that is well known. This presents a very serious safety issue to both the police officers and the citizens, this is well known.
Beginning with the new physical year, beginning October 1, 2020, the City Council of Dallas voted to reduce the funding for overtime pay to the Police Department, this was publicized and announced, this is well known.
So not paying officers for their overtime, instead they are given compensatory time at a rate of one and one half times the overtime. An example: If an officer works 2 hours overtime, he is given 3 hours compensatory time, which the officer can allow to accumulate to a full day or two or more full days.
Now myself being a person with common sense (I hope), it appears that this greatly affects the officer shortage that already exists. Am I wrong?
I am setting here listening to my police scanner on Dallas Police Channel 3, the channel for the Southeast area which includes South Dallas, Parkdale, Urbandale, Pleasant Grove and Kleberg.
It is 2:35 a.m. and the dispatcher is begging for Elements to take priority calls. This happens night after night. The problem all the Elements are already on Priority Calls.
When I was a rookie cop, being field trained at the Northeast Substation, we had a Shift Lieutenant that would often read from the Bible (he was kind of weird to say the least), but always closed with a prayer for the safety of all in attendance. He has long passed away, but I can only hope he is doing the same from Heaven.
Join me in praying for the safety of our First Responders, our Police Officers, Firefighters and Paramedics and this Virus Tragedy is only adding to the situation.