tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post768837821337770775..comments2024-02-24T05:11:30.646-06:00Comments on The Director's Desk: Top posts of the yearTom Casadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-28501800618300008392009-01-01T02:00:00.000-06:002009-01-01T02:00:00.000-06:00Could we have a New Years eve count of the number ...Could we have a New Years eve count of the number of patrol cars that had chunks blown in the back seats?<BR/>Celebrating with too much booze can create some awesome art. Kind of like splatter paint. The fair used to have the disks that would spin and you could squirt paint on it to make great paintings.<BR/>Any cool designs would be interesting. I once hurled something on the fresh fallen snow that looked just like Abraham Lincoln. I know some Madoff investors who look twice at the stool, prior to flushing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-76192026765936988442008-12-31T09:03:00.000-06:002008-12-31T09:03:00.000-06:00Tom-Missed the one on the call box key. Still have...Tom-Missed the one on the call box key. Still have mine as well as my motor officer ring, another relic. My best to you and all the others with a number under 400.<BR/><BR/>JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-71087071275057158842008-12-31T07:33:00.000-06:002008-12-31T07:33:00.000-06:00Not at all, I just see the badge and the commissio...Not at all, I just see the badge and the commission, and one is as good as the another to me. Maybe it's from dealing the hair-trigger posters at the LJS ("you're blaming the victim" when you say they shouldn't have left their wallet in plain sight on the car seat), but after posting 6:25, I thought it necessary to flesh out the "quota-hire" term. LPD isn't desperate for qualified recruits, and actually have to turn away applicants that many other agencies would give their eye-teeth for, so they <I>don't</I> quota-hire, because they don't have to. You can meet diversity numbers without settling for second-best, because you have more than enough apps from top-notch applicants from both genders. That's a compliment to you and to your whole PD. Please take it as such.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-30606209744559196522008-12-31T06:58:00.000-06:002008-12-31T06:58:00.000-06:006:44-In my experience, whenever someone says somet...6:44-<BR/><BR/>In my experience, whenever someone says something like "I'm not saying...", they almost certainly <I>are</I>. If the conduct has nothing to do at all with gender, why even mention it, and why the need to defend yourself against the implication? I put that qualifier in the same category as:<BR/><BR/>"I'll be brief."<BR/>"Just one more thing:"<BR/>"I won't bore you with statistics."<BR/>"To make a long story short,"Tom Casadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03188041481309059441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-50492961458791389422008-12-31T06:44:00.000-06:002008-12-31T06:44:00.000-06:00As a CYA for the touchy and easily-offended, I'm n...As a CYA for the touchy and easily-offended, I'm not saying that all female officers are quota hires, and certainly not at LPD, where they receive more eminently-qualified applicants than there are academy slots. In fact, one of my favorite LPD Officers is #1582, to whom I wish a long and rewarding career 8^D.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225570644228196036.post-16592142071390836362008-12-31T06:25:00.000-06:002008-12-31T06:25:00.000-06:00Well, you can count on me at least for a comment o...Well, you can count on me at least for a comment on almost any home-invasion topic. CCW-related posts are always good for a comment too. I'd like to suggest a future post on LPD's employment screening practices, and specifically how you avoid hiring any loose cannons (pun intended) like <A HREF="http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10521822" REL="nofollow">this one</A>. You probably can't confirm or deny, but if she didn't also apply at LPD (and LSO, NSP, OPD, DSO, SSO, UNLPD, etc), I'll eat a bug. It looks like APD might have really been needing that quota-hire.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com