{"id":34186,"date":"2013-02-15T16:35:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T20:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34186"},"modified":"2013-02-15T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T20:43:44","slug":"police-drunk-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34186","title":{"rendered":"Police drunk on the job."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Police-Officer-Blood-alchol-levels-allowed..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Police-Officer-Blood-alchol-levels-allowed.-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Police-Officer-Blood-alchol-levels-allowed.-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Police-Officer-Blood-alchol-levels-allowed.-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Police-Officer-Blood-alchol-levels-allowed..jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well it looks like in certain areas of Chicago have been found Police officers under the influence of alcohol on the job. What makes it noteworthy is that according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/02\/15\/16974464-suburban-police-officers-allowed-to-work-half-drunk-chicago-investigation-reveals\">investigation <\/a> reported by NBC that would allow them to work under the influence. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many suburban departments actually have clauses in their union contracts which prevent any kind of discipline for officers with substantial amounts of alcohol in their systems &#8212; even those nearing the state definition of legally drunk, an investigation by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettergov.org\/license_to_swill\/\">Better<\/a> Government Association and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/investigations\/Many-Suburban-Cops-Allowed-To-Work-Half-Drunk-191296021.html\">NBC <\/a>Chicago reveals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I worry about it every day,&#8221; said Sam Pulia, the mayor of west suburban Westchester.<\/p>\n<p>Pulia, himself a former Westchester police officer, tried unsuccessfully to stop ratification of his department\u2019s union contract which only allows discipline against officers when they hit an alcohol level of .05.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So are the Police Unions allowing members to not be fire for drinking on the job? Will it take someone being killed before this changes? Why is this being tolerated? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely outrageous. These are collective bargaining agreements in which police unions have somehow forced police departments to allow high levels of alcohol in the bloodstreams of cops when they\u2019re on the job,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2013\/02\/15\/bga-some-suburban-cops-allowed-to-work-when-almost-drunk\/\">Shaw said.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the Unions want a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/cityhall\/18053865-418\/police-union-calls-for-12-percent-pay-hike-3000-stipend-to-live-in-city.html\">pay increase<\/a> then one of the thing that should be changed this policy now. Because who wants to explain a <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.cbslocal.com\/2013\/02\/13\/baltimore-police-trainee-remains-in-critical-condition-after-being-shot-in-training-exercise\/#.URx3QoACSyQ.facebook\">incident <\/a>like this because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TizrtoRZeZE\">they were buzzed<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it looks like in certain areas of Chicago have been found Police officers under the &hellip; <a title=\"Police drunk on the job.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34186\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police drunk on the job.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}