• Fucked up news: Traumatized Newtown Officers Low on Sick Days. Soon will go without paycheck.
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[QUOTE=faze;38999149]Try seeing 20 dead kids shot at close range and see how you react.[/QUOTE] I'd want to know how many cops actually saw the dead bodies, and WHY they saw the dead bodies. In other words, were they all cops who had to see the bodies because they were first on the scene, or are these including cops who showed up later and wanted to see the craziness for themselves. Also, when a cop has to scrape up some kid's body off the highway after a car crash, do they get special trauma support that these Newtown cops want? It seems to me that cops, every day across this country, see crazy and depressing things but don't biatch about needing days off. I mean, if they are traumatized that much maybe this job isn't for them. Those cops must realize they have years of crime scenes yet to come.
[QUOTE=Ponder;39001401]You don't know how the real world works, do you[/QUOTE] I believe that you should never try to do a job that you can't handle.
I would venture a guess that seeing 20 children and six adults that had been executed with multiple gunshots at close range is a fair bit more traumatic that most incidents. I'm sure a good number of these officers were as prepared as any person could be to respond to shootings, stabbings, rapes, and other similar horrors that people seem to enjoy visiting upon one another. I'm sure some of them have experienced some awful things and overcome the trauma. The Connecticut shooting is an event that is far, far, far out of the ordinary, at least I hope can say it is. I doubt most officers expect to respond to a mass shooting, let alone one where the majority of the victims are under the age of 10. I also sincerely doubt that the policies regarding sick leave and personal days were drafted up with specifically this in mind. Policies like this need to be reexamined in order to consider granting an exception when extremely unusual circumstances are present.
[QUOTE=Kasuga Ayumu;39001549]I believe that you should never try to do a job that you can't handle.[/QUOTE] True enough, but dealing with a mass-shooting (of children, no less) on the scale of what happened in Conneticut is hardly in a police officer's job description
Tough shit. You don't work you don't get paid, and being traumatized is a shitty excuse.
[QUOTE=fr1kin;39001819]Tough shit. You don't work you don't get paid, and being traumatized is a shitty excuse.[/QUOTE] It's getting easier to spot the pre-adolescents on Facepunch, you know?
[QUOTE=archangel125;39001968]It's getting easier to spot the pre-adolescents on Facepunch, you know?[/QUOTE] That guy has been making a few shitty heartless posts around here recently. Nothing to see here, just some idgit trying to stir stuff up... On topic, that's pretty horrible, but unless they want to keep their job/money, they're going to have to go back eventually. They have my sympathy, but they're only going to make their time and lives worse by not going back to work and not getting paid anymore.
It's tragic, I get it. They should get some psychiatric counseling and get over it eventually, and return to work or quit their jobs. Also, I don't care about some people's Irak experiences and drama, and this isn't the thread to cry about it.
[QUOTE=Kasuga Ayumu;39000327]You see a lot of fucked up things as a police officer. Suicides, rape/murder victims, babies dismembered in car crashes, 15 month old corpses. They shouldn't have taken the job if they weren't able to handle this.[/QUOTE] It's one thing to sit at home watching Dagestan Massacre or some shit thinking you're tough, it's another thing to be there and actually see it for yourself Armchair badasses that think they are desensitized to violence because they've been on the Internet for a while haven't even come close to scraping the surface
Newtown still needs a police force for protection. A police force is something a town can't go without.
[QUOTE=W00tbeer1;38999846]Chill. I'm talking about the money aspect. We can't just pay police officers to time off to recover which could take months to years. It would be a huge economic burden to everybody. They need to work during their recovery process. You're taking it as a personal offense to war veterans.[/QUOTE] what r humann natur why cant work aftur no need waste money
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