MORGANTOWN - It’s a struggle of attrition. If 20 people sign up for police civil service testing, 10 might show up. Of that 10, five might pass the written and physical tests. Of that five, two might make it through the subsequent background checks, polygraph test and psychological ...
As the third Chicago Police Department officer to commit suicide in less than a month was laid to rest this past weekend, arguments and anger over the city’s overtaxed police force took on a new sense of urgency. The deaths understandably have inflamed long-simmering condemnation of the ...
That’s all officers ask for Last Sunday, The Dominion Post detailed the myriad complaints from Morgantown police officers against the City of Morgantown. Chief among the grievances was a series of policy changes that will cut officers’ pay: significantly less paid overtime and ...
by Jay Ambrose Suppose you’re in a battlefield with bad guys coming at you full force and you have the means of stopping them, but, while calling your own troops names, you pull them off the field, letting the bad guys have their murderous way. That’s not that far from what we’ve ...