Bob Walsh
Stockton, CA
Male, 60
I worked for the California state system, starting as a Correctional Officer and retiring as a Lieutenant in 2005. I now write for the PacoVilla blog which is concerned with what could broadly be called The Correctional System.
That is truly unfortunate. I don't know if maybe he just misses the job or is projecting some of his habits and insecurities onto you guys. I admit I find is surprising after soemone has retired. I wish I could offer some helpful advice, but I can't. Sorry. I don't have the training or backgrtound to serve as a family counselor. That is the direction I would recommend. Good luck.
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Probably, though they might be uninterested in investing a full 14 weeks in someone who bails after only one week. Depends a lot on why he left and how hard up the department is for people. Presumably he already passed the background or he wouldn't have been in the academy.
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Generally speaking yes, depending on the exact reason why you left. If you wait too long they have to do a whole new background on you. (If you quit because you don't like shift work or you "don't like other people telling you what to do" you are probably SOL.) However they might decide you are not worth the trouble, though after investing all that academy training in you they might give it a go, again depending....
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Sorry. Question is so general it makes no sense to me. Good and bad? Male and Female? Smart and Stupid? Young or old?
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Couldn't really say. I have never been a street cop. It comes up fairly often in the prison setting, usually with female cops making the complaint, but we don't have to pull information out of the complainant under those circumstances.
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In my experience, neutral. Druggies still use in prison. Drugs are easy to get in prison. They are about 4X more expensive than on the street, but are still easy to get. A recent mainstream news report just released a report on that subject in fact. It said that, when tested in June of last year, 23% of the prisoners tested came up positive for illegal drugs and 30% of the sample refused to be tested, even though the sampling was anonymous and there was no way to connect the samples back to an individual person.
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If it hasn't changed since I was working, you need two years in grade before you can take the test for the next step up.
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