As someone who just left with 11 years as a Detention Deputy, I completely agree. That's actually one of the reasons why I left... And not to step on any toes, but I feel the same way about the military (hence law enforcement being labeled as para-military). I do believe that the majority are patriotic, but it's hard to respect the position when you know that it's ran like a business under the guise of working for the people. As a field training officer, I tried to institute change that would've undoubtedly helped inmates as well as staff, but no one in leadership cared. I now know that they didn't care because the majority of the decisions were only made to keep the big contracts coming in and to increase command staff's wages 10 to 15k every year.
As someone who just left with 11 years as a Detention Deputy, I completely agree. That's actually one of the reasons why I left... And not to step on any toes, but I feel the same way about the military (hence law enforcement being labeled as para-military). I do believe that the majority are patriotic, but it's hard to respect the position when you know that it's ran like a business under the guise of working for the people. As a field training officer, I tried to institute change that would've undoubtedly helped inmates as well as staff, but no one in leadership cared. I now know that they didn't care because the majority of the decisions were only made to keep the big contracts coming in and to increase command staff's wages 10 to 15k every year.