http://nowholdon.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/kkk-trooper-given-badge-back/ A New York Cops Perspective On Law and Police topical subjects Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:47:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://nowholdon.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/kkk-trooper-given-badge-back/#comment-185 father tony Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:51:05 +0000 http://nowholdon.wordpress.com/?p=299#comment-185 I haven't read all your links, but I am hesitant to agree with the firing of a public official because of something (legal) he may do on his own time. However, I do think that if he has a responsibility to make his private life be in synch with his job-life, that responsibility ought to be made clear as a condition of hiring. Also, if an use of public resources (including office email or time) was involved in the transmission of the offensive photo from one officer to the other, he should be fired. I remember sitting in a sauna at a YMCA in Springfield, MA, and having to listen to a local cop spew the most frightening homophobic words in casual conversation. I wondered how such a stupid man could possibly discharge his duty as a policeman, but I came away blaming the people who hired him for having made a mistake. I haven’t read all your links, but I am hesitant to agree with the firing of a public official because of something (legal) he may do on his own time. However, I do think that if he has a responsibility to make his private life be in synch with his job-life, that responsibility ought to be made clear as a condition of hiring. Also, if an use of public resources (including office email or time) was involved in the transmission of the offensive photo from one officer to the other, he should be fired.
I remember sitting in a sauna at a YMCA in Springfield, MA, and having to listen to a local cop spew the most frightening homophobic words in casual conversation. I wondered how such a stupid man could possibly discharge his duty as a policeman, but I came away blaming the people who hired him for having made a mistake.

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