Sweet vindication
It really got me worked up when I first read about the New Orleans officer who was fired for not shooting at an armed suspect. I have always thought it was bad enough that we get fired and sued for using deadly force againt the bad guys no matter what the circumstance is.
The fear of being second guessed is so bad that most officers are more afraid of being sued than being killed in the line of duty. We are conditioned to be this way because of spineless management, naive liberals who have no idea what life is like outside the university, and the media. Now we are going to be fired for not taking a shot at a suspect? I figured it was about time to promote and take that desk job now.
Well it looks like that NOPD officer is getting his job back. I am not sure that I would want it at that agency anymore but I am glad that the right thing happened.
The New Orleans Civil Service Commission ordered the New Orleans Police Department this week to reinstate an officer fired last year for failing to react aggressively enough to a shooting.
Stephen Neveaux was cited in September for cowardice and neglect of duty, fired by the NOPD and called gutless by some colleagues. But after examining his appeal and studying testimony from a grievance hearing, the commission rendered its decision Thursday, granting Neveaux's appeal and ordering the department to restore all lost back wages and benefits.
Welcome back buddy but watch yourself. I bet management will be looking for another reason to discipline him down the road. They tend to be vindictive like that.
8 bits of radio chatter:
The best part is, now that he has his job back, he can resign with his dignity intact and find another department.
Agreed...the headhunters will be watching very carefully.
I'd also wager he's going to be "shopping" for a better department(and city).
Good luck to him!
I can't believe I followed your link to the ACLU *banging head on desk*. I clicked out of there quick, before my computer could turn Stupid on me. ;-)
I don't know enough about the case to judge whether he acted in "cowardice" or not. But I'll bet he doesn't last too long back at NOPD.
Time to find a better place to work. Now that he's not "fired" anymore he can go find another job.
Yeah, the big thing is now he gets to use a different answer to "have you ever been terminated or asked to resign" from a job, and/or "have you ever been terminated from a position with another law enforcement agency" on any future applications, without the fear of the polygraph comming up negative.
I don`t live in the US, but this ACLU thing... is that for real? I always figured it was some sort of internet hoax!
Polygraphs don't work reliably, they never have. The only thing they can do is guarantee that all the psychopathic people who have no anxiety to help them differentiate right from wrong will always get hired.
The polygraph doesn't detect lies, it detects stress under questioning. The basic assumption behind the polygraph is that people only feel stress under questioning when they're lying, which is stupid.
The most honest people always get anxious when questioned, which is what motivates them to tell the truth to alleviate the anxiety. It's literally their core sense of the difference between right and wrong. The harder a person tries to be as absolutely perfectly honest, the more anxiety they feel. That's why famously honest people like Mormons and Mennonites tend to fail polygraphs, especially when pressed for ever-more detailed depths of honesty. Their anxiety is literally fear of accidentally leaving something out.
Psychopaths don't feel anxious when lying, killing, robbing, raping, accepting bribes, or selling national secrets. They literally have no sense of right or wrong. In fact, many have no feelings whatsoever, which encourages them to do more and more bad things in the hope that they'll eventually feel something.
In short, the most honest people, the most desireable ones, will always be rejected, and the most dishonest ones will always pass with flying colors. So, the end result of using polygraphs is that they concentrate the most evil people in organizations that use them.
I agree, transfer definetly.
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