I can’t get it to work….is there another link?

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And this is pretty much what they do now, only most cases never get the press that Bisard is getting.
And the vast, overwhelming majority of IMPD officers are ethical, dedicated, and honest.  They deserve as much support and encouragement as we give the military.

As bad as the mishandled vial of blood is (probably done by one or two low civilian property room staffers), my major concern is the MISSING $32,000,000 (the responsibility of the PSD)!!!  If I lost $32.00 of company money on my job, I’d be summarily fired!

oh stop whining!

So what you are saying is the FOP tactics were successful.

I just don’t know, TURK182.  As a citizen, I’m just spent.  It seems like we have just lost total control of our government.  All of the overwhelming evidence of Straub’s SHADY and INCOMPETENT tyranny and Ballard CANNOT do anything about it.  The way Straub treats (or mistreats) people, his exorbitant spending on his outside business associates, rising crime rates (if we ever get the real numbers) , his budgetary malfeasants and the mistrust of IMPD he has installed (or at very least has no plan to fix) in our community.  All of this while he is “learning to respect our city.”  He DOES NOT respect our city (he says our elected leaders are all liars conspiring against him).  As far as I know, he has not moved his family here or even registered to vote here (I hear he flies back to New York several times a month).  I would rather have a community leader, like a Public Safety Director, with a healthy connection to our community.  Straub being from the outside does not particularly bother me (if he would listen to the community and TRY to learn about us), if his desire is to become a positive member of our community and not just use us to siphon tax dollars and pad his resume.

Perhaps.

But too loud.

Sometimes, it’s process, not results.

And sometimes it’s both.

Ask around–everyday folk have no respect for the FOP, but plenty of respect for line patrol officers.

They went for the fence.  Overkill.  For about a decade or more.  It’s not an isolated incident.

I found it later las tnight.

You’re going to have to learn to distinguish between “whining” and real questions.  Or you’re going to have a pretty miserable life.

so, what you are saying is the FOP tactics worked for he ones paying for their service.

“… majority of IMPD officers… “, they are? Three times, count em, three times (that the public knows of so far) the blood samples have been mucked up.
#1 the actual draw itself
#2 the transport of the samples that same day. Remember the transporting officer stuck both vials in his pocket and stopped for lunch.
#3 this madness currently with the movement & improper storage of the 2nd vial.

I can’t accept there are that many goobers on IMPD’s payroll. If there are, lawyers & past OWI recipients sure have strong cause to have their convictions tossed out. What is then very plausable is this was fixed from the git-go.

As far as support for the miltary, my vertical smile. I did two decades pal, and have been spit on more than I can count. This country has ALWAYS brushed aside it’s veterans. Study what happened in DC at the end of WWI. Korea, VietNam & now the nonavailability of VA care for Gulf 1 & 2 vets, and those coming home from Afganistan.

Support & encouragement my butt.

Cry me a river ‘pal’.  You werent drafted, and you could have gotten out after one hitch but you re-upped more than once.  You want support and encouragement?  
Get a girdle that talks to you.

 Yes, I can grasp the concept. 

I can also grasp that those supervisors FAILED to properly train their subordinates, and drill home the necessity of standards of conduct that holding employment payed by the taxpayer requires for said taxpayers to TRUST them.

That’s not a difficult concept to wrap your little gray matter around… or is it?

I don’t get mad at the checkout clerk when they mess up…. I get mad at the idiot who hired & trained them.

 20yrs, 3 mo, 13 days… PCS assignments in Tactical & Strategic Reconnaissance units as a crewdog. The rest was a SAC HRP/PRP wrench-bender & Combat Crew member.  Over 50% of my total active time was TDY to overseas locations.   Ribbon rack, (and all devices), ends somewhere near the shoulder seam. Whoopie. Like it’s gonna get me a cup of coffee anywhere in the civilian world.  (In case you have not noticed, on this side of our society, folks do not care a hoot about the technicolor over the left breast.)

My opinions about the IMPD were formed when 2 1/2 years ago I was sitting on a bench with a couple of old fellas from the VA, just prior to the Veterans Day Parade & was told to “Move along or get your head busted, Tonto.” by those wonderful thin blue line fellers…

Mayor’s office never responded to my calls or letters. (Plural).

IMPD has now, with the latest Bisard foul-up, lost any and all respect from me, my family (several other Vets in there), and my adult children.

 You folks in IMPD have EARNED every bit of disrespect you are currently receiving.

Now self-correct.  If you don’t like the fact that 1% of your pals in blue set the tune for how all are viewed, fix it.  If you ain’t part of the solution, you are then a big part of the problem.

‘Till then, go whine elsewhere.

I’ll answer for him, Abdul.  FIRE ALL WHITES! They’re all racists!

 I attribute the spitting incidents to those in sever dislike of US Government policypolicy at that time.  Not to servicemembers screwing up.