The arrogant ruling class of California (in this case, the CA prison guards’ labor union) thinks we taxpayers owe them subsidies even when they go play and gamble (and scheme against us) in Las Vegas.
2.5 minutes long.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN3aNvsi__k
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Attacking Public Safety via the hit on Prison Guards is expected…Having carried a badge for 30 years I am loving it….You asked for it ,soon youll get it. The pending release of 30,000 inmates into our communities…….
Now lets gut the Police force by oh say 50 percent…….Now call a cop when you need help….I recall when i would rappell down a cliff at the glider path at night…What is hilarious is that I would risk my life to save a kid I never knew…too funny.
Back to Public Safety. Does the public still want me to rappell down cliffs at age 55? Should I be on the fireline at age 55 in order to save a home?? Rider,if i were drowning in 12 surf off boomers in La Jolla would you peel off your skivvies and save me????
Lets get real,Public Safety Officers as with the Military are a special breed……We are a Tribe, and we are special…..We are charged with protecting your family as well as our country…….We have taken a Sacred Oath…….acctuarials prove….We die sooner and have a High rate of suicide,and Post stress trauma…….upon our early retirements…………
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John, your smug screed is welcome here. It’s good to hear from our self-anointed “heroes.”
No one wants you performing athletic feats at age 55 — any more than we want you out in the trenches defending our country at that age. But where is it written that when you retire, you’re useless, lack any employable skills and are no longer obligated to work for a living?
Our career military can retire as early as age 37 — most retire in their 40’s. Do they then live the life of Riley, no longer working for a living? No, they get a job, because their modest military pension is not enough to live on — nor should it be. No one expects otherwise — including our military.
But somehow you self-important public safety employees have such inflated opinions of yourselves that you think you are better than our military. You’re not. Not hardly! And you are not comparable.
Indeed, your risks compared to our front line military — while very real — are laughable small compared to our soldiers facing hostiles. And then you guys whine because you sometimes have to work holidays (getting overtime or comp time) — while the military deploys for many months at a time.
Obviously you don’t see the connection between our overpaid prison guards and our overcrowded prisons — our cost per prisoner is FAR higher than the rest of the nation precisely because we overpay and over/early pension these high school graduates. Because of the prohibitive cost, we have to let too many convicts go early.
Same problem for police and ff protection. You folks cost so much we can’t afford enough of you. Your excessive compensation puts us in greater danger.
You think you are so special when you used to “rappel down a cliff at night” to save a stranger. Or fight a fire. But that’s your JOB. No altruism there. You make that point clear when you infer that you wouldn’t save a kid if your pay was dramatically cut.
BTW, rappelling is fun to boot. People climb mountains for just that reason.
You think we owe you big bucks for just doing your job — because is it occasionally risky. Tell that to the 72% of America’s firefighters who are volunteers. THEY are America’s REAL public safety heroes.
The last part of your chest-beating nonsense degenerates into outright dishonesty. You do NOT die earlier than the general population. That’s BS put out by police and ff unions. Check with CalPERS for the real numbers. No difference in mortality experience between modern police/ff retirees and the general govt work force. If you died off as often as the unions claim, we’d have no pension problem!
Sacred Oath??? A wave of crime and misbehavior in our SDPD, and the protective blue wall of silence closes around the miscreants. Some oath!
You should be embarrassed. But, of course, you’re not.
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Just an FYI. Tonight I’ve received a string of post 11 PM extremely obscene and vaguely threatening phone calls from a yelling (and yellow) government employee (probably drunk) — likely resulting from the above post. Sadly, I suspect it was either a cop or firefighter — he indicated he was a protector of the public. I chose not to listen after the gist of his “message” was clear, and just let him talk to an empty phone.
We ARE facing some thugs as opponents. Don’t be fooled by spiffy uniforms, shiny badges and yellow raincoats.
Of course, most of our protectors are NOT thugs — most think of themselves as good and decent people. In many ways, doubtless they are — as demonstrated by that poignant incident of the doomed SDPD police officer buying cookies for the kid at McDonald’s shortly before his tragic execution.
But I suspect these decent protectors will cover for the thugs. Doubtless this evening’s phone fool will brag about his calls at work tomorrow, confident that no co-worker will “rat him out.” It’s a safe bet he’s right.
Taxpayers expense? I am a Correctional Officer working at PBSP. I went to the CCPOA convention. Did taxpayers pay my way? NO. I earn a living and I paid my own way as did many others. CCPOA helps offset the cost for delegates. All union members use their own money. I am a family woman, wife, mother, grandmother, sister. I am the face of our union. Normal, honest, taxpayer. Am I unusual in my profession? NO. We’re simply a large group of men and women who chose to take a job for the state in which we provide a service keeping criminals fed, housed, clothed, and in which we carry out the task of getting criminals to yard, group, medical appointments, and anything else the state laws provides for them. Rest assured, taxpayers, we met in Las Vegas on our own dime.
Ms. Shriver:
Did you watch the video? Are you saying that $350,000 of public monies was not used for convention attendance?
I did watch the video. It is my understanding that the time used comes from a timebank that we as officers donate so that union business can be conducted on our behalf. I’m aware of activist release time and that some of it is used by all chapters.This I believe is also from a donated timebank. I do not claim to be an expert on this subject. That being said, of all the attendees only ten per chapter are using any of the timebank hours. All others attend at their own expence. The time off they use is either their RDO’s, vacation or swaps.