Friday, August 08, 2014

"You commoners better qualify, or else! But I

am too important and busy to actually shoot this icky gun I carry."
Department rules require all police officers who carry guns to pass shooting range tests every six months. Fong said in a statement this week that "the duties of a police chief are demanding and time-consuming. I acknowledge that I have not scheduled time for firearms re-qualifications. This will be addressed for future re-qualifications."
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Cohen noted that in the last five years, "scores of officers" have been disciplined and even denied pay raises and promotion for the same infraction the chief has committed.
Allowing those under her to be disciplined while she was skipping target practice herself amounted to an "arrogant, ethical and moral failure" on the chief's part, Cohen said.
The primary story in this is "The Chief felt herself too busy to be bothered with the qualifications required", but please take note of ..."scores of officers" have been disciplined and even denied pay raises and promotion for the same infraction the chief has committed.

One of the standard lines is "Only cops are trained and qualified enough to carry a gun", yet here, in Frisco, we have 'scores' of officers disciplined for either skipping or failing qualifications...

1 comment:

markm said...

In a department as big as the SFPD, the chief and several echelons under her are paper-pushers, not working cops. Any law-abiding citizen is far more likely to _need_ a gun than the chief. It would be quite all right if she didn't carry at all - but if she is going to carry, she should put in her range time.