I'm glad to hear that. I do fear though that the "jail population" in Los Angeles differs a lot from Oregon. Dealing Bloods and Crips, and the various Latino gangs here would probably drive a saint off his perch. But our problem is the deputies have formed their own gangs - which extend out to the station houses for patrol officers, and their gangs differ from the Bloods and Crips only in that sartorial choices and the fact they have the authority of the state on their side (which makes them worse).
You are spot on. As I said earlier, I live in a racially homogenous community. We don't have a gang problem per se (mostly what we had during my time were groups of white boys who played at being ghetto gangsters. What we do see are the drug cartels coming into the state and growing MJ, and mostly mid level drug runners/dealers, few of whom spend much time in physical custody.
The jail is a great more or less controlled environment for people to learn how to handle conflict, talk with people from different backgrounds, learn how to work within a rank structure, and to figure out if this line of work is for them. Our patrol division basically gets the cream of that crop, and as a field training officer (FTO) our jobs were really pretty easy.
My personal reach after almost 10 years of retirement: the Sheriff, his Chief Deputy with the rank of Captain, and the Police Services Division Captain were all guys who rode with me as explorer scouts in the early to mid 1990's. The PSD Lieutenant, more than half the sergeants, and 2/3 of the detectives are former recruits of mine. I finished my career as a contract deputy in Creswell, OR. The guy who took my place, and ultimately became the sergeant there was one of my recruits. He retires this week, and another on of my recently promoted recruits is taking his place. Mother Hen Rides Again!
Our jail was the first in Oregon to receive national accreditation for its operation. They still do a decent job, but farming out our food services and medical services to contracted companies has hurt the operations.
Getting food from the lowest bidder is always a shaky idea and medical services even more so but yours is the first I've ever heard of a jail being even mildly well regarded for its performance.
We haven’t ever had that issue in our county. The jail is a great learning environment, and our patrol training program was generally successful.
I'm glad to hear that. I do fear though that the "jail population" in Los Angeles differs a lot from Oregon. Dealing Bloods and Crips, and the various Latino gangs here would probably drive a saint off his perch. But our problem is the deputies have formed their own gangs - which extend out to the station houses for patrol officers, and their gangs differ from the Bloods and Crips only in that sartorial choices and the fact they have the authority of the state on their side (which makes them worse).
You are spot on. As I said earlier, I live in a racially homogenous community. We don't have a gang problem per se (mostly what we had during my time were groups of white boys who played at being ghetto gangsters. What we do see are the drug cartels coming into the state and growing MJ, and mostly mid level drug runners/dealers, few of whom spend much time in physical custody.
The jail is a great more or less controlled environment for people to learn how to handle conflict, talk with people from different backgrounds, learn how to work within a rank structure, and to figure out if this line of work is for them. Our patrol division basically gets the cream of that crop, and as a field training officer (FTO) our jobs were really pretty easy.
My personal reach after almost 10 years of retirement: the Sheriff, his Chief Deputy with the rank of Captain, and the Police Services Division Captain were all guys who rode with me as explorer scouts in the early to mid 1990's. The PSD Lieutenant, more than half the sergeants, and 2/3 of the detectives are former recruits of mine. I finished my career as a contract deputy in Creswell, OR. The guy who took my place, and ultimately became the sergeant there was one of my recruits. He retires this week, and another on of my recently promoted recruits is taking his place. Mother Hen Rides Again!
That's impressive, I wonder if they've ever had their program written up and circulated.
Our jail was the first in Oregon to receive national accreditation for its operation. They still do a decent job, but farming out our food services and medical services to contracted companies has hurt the operations.
Getting food from the lowest bidder is always a shaky idea and medical services even more so but yours is the first I've ever heard of a jail being even mildly well regarded for its performance.