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Officer Review
Officer's Comment
"Politics run deep here. Keep your head down and do your job."
Leadership
B+
Command explains decisions?
Usually
Concerns addressed or held against you?
Usually addressed
Command works nights/weekends?
Occasionally
Training focus or blame focus?
Depends
Optics or officer safety?
Equal focus
Command competent for critical incidents?
Uncertain
Competency
B+
Supervisor could do your job?
Probably
Trust supervisor's legal answers?
Usually trust
FTOs producing competent officers?
Mostly competent
FTO sergeant quality?
Just okay
Trust DT/firearms instructors?
Some of them
% of supervisors qualified?
41-60%
Fairness & Accountability
B+
Promotions based on merit?
Mostly merit
Incompetent officers promoted?
Sometimes
Discipline consistent regardless of rank?
Mostly
Accountability flows downhill only?
Mostly fair
Selectors competent?
Mostly
Officer Safety
B
Trust your backup's competency?
Mixed
Staffing ever feel unsafe?
Rarely
Pressured to go solo?
Sometimes
Injured officers supported?
Mostly supported
Supervisor incompetence endangered you?
A few times
Backup coming fast at 3am?
Somewhat confident
Morale & Retention
B+
Recommend this agency?
Yes, with minor caveats
Take this job again?
Maybe
Transfer laterally tomorrow?
Probably not
Still here in 3 years?
Probably
Workload & Mission Creep
B
Dispatched to non-police calls?
Sometimes
Expected to be MH/homeless/animal control?
Occasionally
Non-police calls delayed emergencies?
Occasionally
Overtime voluntary or voluntold?
Mixed
Command understands patrol reality?
Somewhat disconnected