{"id":38967,"date":"2013-12-22T09:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T14:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38967"},"modified":"2013-12-22T09:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T14:16:58","slug":"nj-cops-suspended-for-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38967","title":{"rendered":"NJ cops suspended for military service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.insider.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=2959016835001&#038;w=500&#038;h=300\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.insider.foxnews.com\">video.insider.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Several of you have sent us links to this <a href=\"http:\/\/foxnewsinsider.com\/2013\/12\/21\/new-jersey-cops-suspended-serving-their-country\">Fox News<\/a> article about two Iraq War veterans &#038; cops who were suspended from their police jobs for allegedly misusing military leave time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They\u2019re being suspended without pay and could lose their jobs for allegedly misusing military leave time. An attorney for both men says they\u2019re upstanding cops and did everything by the book. The police union claims the cops are being targeted by their department to discourage other cops from joining the reserves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/news\/236776841_Attorney__Bloomfield_officers_may_lose_job_over_military_leave_allegations.html?page=1\">North Jersey.com<\/a>, they were both members of the Air Force Reserve;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The days in question &#8211; 15 for McCracken and 29 for Cartagena &#8211; go back to 2007 and 2008. McCracken used the days for traveling to a military base, while Cartagena used his days for medical treatments of combat injuries, Elston said.<\/p>\n<p>Elston said the police department makes it sound like the two were lounging on the beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These men are highly decorated Iraq War veterans, who have served our country overseas, have been overseas at least twice each, and have served our country with honor and distinction, as well as the Bloomfield Township Police Department,&#8221; she said. &#8220;The township is saying that now, four or five years after these occurrences, that they should not have been paid for the traveling to comply for the military order or for being treated on base.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their chief isn&#8217;t talking to the media at this point, so all we have is the officers&#8217; side of the story. <a href=\"http:\/\/bloomfield.patch.com\/groups\/police-and-fire\/p\/in-press-conference-cops-suspended-over-military-service-make-their-case\">The Bloomfield Patch<\/a> reports;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The time period in question occurred in 2008 and 2009 and involves both their overseas deployment and weekend training, Elston said. She said at that time, Bloomfield did not have a policy concerning military absences. Elston said a policy was later put in place and is now being retroactively applied.<\/p>\n<p>During the press presentation, Elston said she had audio recordings of Bloomfield police investigators saying they didn\u2019t have a set policy in place.<\/p>\n<p>McCracken said the Essex County Prosecutor&#8217;s office had investigated their military leave claims earlier this year and did not find credible evidence that they had falsified their claims of military time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the latest video at video.insider.foxnews.com Several of you have sent us links to this Fox &hellip; <a title=\"NJ cops suspended for military service?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38967\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NJ cops suspended for military service?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reserve-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38967","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}