LAPD Hiring Freeze?

[Protect-N-Serve]

I know the council was voting on this. Did it end up passing to initiate a hiring freeze on LAPD?

[Berlioz]

They will continue to hire up 480 officers a year to cover attrition only.

[mtxpro752]

And they stated that as high ranking officers, commander and above retire, they will not immediately promote to fill the position but reassign their duties to the remaining command staff. This is to prevent from having to pay people more $$ with a promotion, just make the command staff do more work for the same $.

It will eventually trickle down to the lower ranks and promotion will be slower as less people will be moving up the ranks.

[RNM]

We should have done that with Obama until we could find someone qualified.

[Kieth M.]

This is to prevent from having to pay people more $$ with a promotion, just make the command staff do more work for the same $.

Excuse me while I LOL for a while...:D:D:D

I'm done now.

Puuuuuuh-leeeeeez....LAPD Captains and on up, do very little wood-chopping and water-carrying. They leave it to their staff of paper-shuffling, sniffling, supplicants to do all the research, typing, and the heavy-lifting. They could all take a month off, maybe two, and return to find a huge pile on their desk....pre-read and sorted into two piles: (1) sign and approve, and (2) kickback w/attached notes for needed corrections.

The exeptions, to what I just said, are few and far between, but they include and are not limited to: Dennis Cremins, John Sherman, and Bob Green.

[Berlioz]

Worked for Cremins, awesome captain!! Green on the other hand...never personally met him or worked for him but from what I hear, he's making life at 77th miserable.

[mtxpro752]

Hey I'm not saying that that they work, just that's what the dept has said. There are a few really hard working Captains out there, a few.

[doc_holiday]

Excuse me while I LOL for a while...:D:D:D

I'm done now.

Puuuuuuh-leeeeeez....LAPD Captains and on up, do very little wood-chopping and water-carrying. They leave it to their staff of paper-shuffling, sniffling, supplicants to do all the research, typing, and the heavy-lifting. They could all take a month off, maybe two, and return to find a huge pile on their desk....pre-read and sorted into two piles: (1) sign and approve, and (2) kickback w/attached notes for needed corrections.

The exeptions, to what I just said, are few and far between, but they include and are not limited to: Dennis Cremins, John Sherman, and Bob Green. True to an extent. Most of the Captains are *** kissers to the Chief and are frankly afraid of them. I think most of the good command staff left or were forced out.

[Kieth M.]

True to an extent. Most of the Captains are *** kissers to the Chief and are frankly afraid of them. I think most of the good command staff left or were forced out.

If you're speaking of Bernie's inner-circle, we're going to have to agree to disagree. But in the five years I served under Bratton (after five years of Parks, et al.), no one ever said they missed Dave G., Maurice M., Michael B., Margeret Y., Julius D., the twin tools of tedium known as Dr. Debbi G. & Dr. Robin G., and the rest of that 'lights on, but no one's home' crew.

[doc_holiday]

If you're speaking of Bernie's inner-circle, we're going to have to agree to disagree. But in the five years I served under Bratton (after five years of Parks, et al.), no one ever said they missed Dave G., Maurice M., Michael B., Margeret Y., Julius D., and the rest of that crew. I agree that Parks' inner circle was no better but there WERE good captains out there. Bratton's people are scared, Parks' inner circle were incompetent. Not many people had the guts to stand up to Parks but he didn't really punish people for dissent the way Bratton did/does.

[LA Copper]

I agree that Parks' inner circle was no better but there WERE good captains out there. Bratton's people are scared, Parks' inner circle were incompetent. Not many people had the guts to stand up to Parks but he didn't really punish people for dissent the way Bratton did/does.

I disagree. Park's was famous for "punishing" command staff for not getting things done the way he wanted, i.e., Boards of Rights outcomes. After talking to many command staff folks in the last few years, just about all of them have said that Bratton is easier (though not easy) to work for than Parks.