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ok, the whole cop - anti cop thing has died down.
I don't want to flare it up or cause anti cop sentiment, but dag nabbit I just can't help it.
so here it is, what do you think about this:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/...ed.WAGT?hpt=T2
GA department fires officer for getting pregnant
I'm curious what folks here think of this, especially the LEOs here.
I didn't even have to open this thread and I knew it had something to do with law enforcement.
Well, at least you're consistant.
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X2Originally Posted by SA Friday
how so?
have I bashed police in this thread?
one of the anti police arguments folks have is the "blue line", how police look out for their own.
it would appear from the video that they don't.
imagine she wasn't a street cop, that she just had a desk job. does that change your opinion?
Nobody said it was going to be a thread about you bashing cops, just knew it was going to be about Cops.
If the story is accurate then she'll probably win a big settlement. Women get pregnant. I don't believe policewomen have to take vows of chastity. One of my neighbors is an LEO and he's got a pile of kids.
At the same time, it is true she can't do a lot of police activities while in this condition. Wrestling with drunks is not a good idea.
I don't see it as a police issue but as an employment issue. It was dealt with really unskillfully. The updated video shows more. She's essentially disabled for awhile. If a male officer had broken his leg off duty should he be fired? There's such things as leave. The town might be broke and lacking resources but this seems like plain old dumb.
Steve
85% of LEO's give the rest of them a bad name.
Patrol and low ranking officers look out for their own. Officers are caught in a constant battle between their administrations and the public. Both don't like them and think they are a problem so the blue line has to look out for its own to protect each other at both ends.
I had a subject fight me once and he was tazed. There was an automatic use of force investigation launched by the department, not because the individual complained, but because they thought they should (I should point out that this is not mandatory). After everything was said and done I was cleared of the force issue but was in trouble for cussing. I said "fuck" three times during this fight and was given an official reprimand.
But I also should point out to answer your question without reading the article (so I am not fully educated here) is that if they fired here merely on being pregnant that is wrong and should be fought. I imagine there might be more but am not going to speculate on it just yet, having not read it.
I'm still not really sure how the whole "at will employment" thing in colorado works in cases like this... Had they terminated her for "no reason" would there be an issue? Or was she told that it was because she was pregnant"
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