The Boys in Blue are getting a tan:
The business of recruiting has become so competitive that law enforcement agencies like the Houston Police Department have no choice but to get creative.
The department wants to hire an advertising agency to oversee its recruiting efforts, but getting creative in HPD’s case also means leaving the country. Two officers are currently in Puerto Rico on a scouting mission for potential cadets.
The officers will return home Friday. Another trip is already in the works.
Lovely. Apparently Chief Hurtt isn’t the only one who likes to get some sunshine. If the Puerto Rico trip doesn’t turn up any promising young cadets, I suggest sending recruiters to the Swiss Alps, the French Riviera, or maybe Grand Cayman.
While the HPD brass are dispatching cops to, um, patrol the beaches, here’s what’s going on in Houston:
A man was shot in the head and killed in north Houston on Wednesday night.
In a separate incident, the Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division also is investigating a fatal shooting around midnight Wednesday in northeast Houston.
Good work, Chief!
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Did we expect less from hurt? The man has no ties to out community. He is out of town more than brown
Why can’t Chief Hurtt recruit in Arizona when he goes there on weekends thereby “killing two birds with one stone”. We’re probably paying for his trip back there anyway or maybe Chief Hurtt knows those officers don’t meet the “fine” standards of our current officers.
HPD might try something inventive like…..providing liveable wages and cutting the political BS that ties law enforcer’s hands.
#3 - right on! Why spend the money on traveling to other cities when they could spend it on better pay and benefits. Perhaps we could even spend it on additional training for current officers so they could feel more confident about being a HPD officer and do a better job. Mayor White needs to examine these alternatives to flying around the country and ad agency dollars at taxpayer’s expense.
Puerto Rico,
You lovely island . . .
Island of tropical breezes.
Always the pineapples growing,
Always the coffee blossoms blowing . . .
…………
I like the shores of America!
Comfort is yours in America!
Knobs on the doors in America,
Wall-to-wall floors in America!
Gee officer Krupke….. you say you’re hiring?
How about offering citizenship to those who serve, similar to the military? HPD can promise not to call ICE if they become a cadet and graduate.
Oh wait, they already don’t call ICE…scratch that.
Why don’t they raise the pay for returning veterans? Currently they pay extra for college hours, but not for military service. EVERY single Field Training Officer I knew had more respect and gave higher marks to former military than to college grads. College grads whine and file complaints on each other. Vets tend to learn how to adapt and follow orders without whining. College grads whine…. A LOT! Vets also have more experience with weapons safety and proficency (yes, even sailors). But the incentive pay is for college grads. A degree in underwater basket weaving from the Possum Trot Community College is more important to HPD bean counters. They tend to look down on and see military as uneducated, a typical liberal viewpoint.
Gulp. Trying to find officers to hire out of Puerto Rico. Ay, caramba. Pleaso don’t.
Also, since when is travelling to Puerto Rico leaving the country? If it is meant leaving the continent, then, OK. Otherwise, it is NOT leaving the country.
I think the management of the Houston police are crazy, ill-informed and pulling a fast-one on the people of Houston.
I’m originally from classic-conservative, suburban New York state town. I moved to Puerto Rico 7 years ago out of college (unbeknowest of what I was getting into).
All of my experience shows that Puerto Rican police are 100% un-educated, non-sensical, lazy, corrupt and just plain the lowest quality police force throughout the U.S.
Most aren’t even college educated. And if you review the quality of Puerto Rico’s public education, you’d think-twice about the decision to recruit from this Island.
The experiences I have had in Puerto Rico with the police are scary. I would not wish the low-quality, poor demeanor of the Puerto Rican police-person on even my worst enemy.
The people of Houston would be much better served if the recruiters went to the Swiss Alps. It would cost less too, if you include the fact that most police do not speak English (training) and their laziness costs much more in quality of life to the region being served because crime and corruption will begin to outpace growth, and finally there is an exodus (as is happening with Puerto Rico’s educated middle and upper class who are moving to the higher quality of life areas of Florida and other warm-climate regions of the U.S.).
You get what you pay for…
#9 I was born and raised in PR. I would not say 100% but over 80%. The “brain drain” has been going on for a long, long time. The profesionals that move to Florida move to Northern Florida so as not to go back to the same environment they fled, in Southern Florida. The even smarter ones moved to Texas.
BTW, a good friend of mine’s (he was 1 year ahead of me) older brother was a peace officer, who was shot in the head point blank, while off-duty and responded to a burglary.
About # 9’s comment,…Jaime, What say you?
Sorry, we posted at the same time.
I listened to Dan’s interview with Cheif Hurtt.
ALl I can say is that I hope that Dan will not “grow” in office and oppose the BS that was mentioned.
Especially, granting Peace Officers (or is Police Officers) jurisdiction over truancy. We home school and I know a couple of families that had a hell of a time because some “concern” soul made a CPS case where non existed. Throw in the Police and things get ugly even faster.
Dan, please do not “grow” in office and oppose all of the proposed issues raised in your program.
Jaime,
I am sure that you are one of the home schoolers that actually does it right. However, there are so many people that “home-school” when actually they are too lazy to get their kids up and to school. You see them hanging out at the malls, etc. during education hours. The concerned citizen was probably just worried that your kids fell into this scenario.
#14 Do you know any home schoolers? By your statement I have to say that you do not have a clue. But please corect me if I am wrong.
BTW, some of the hell that “concerned” people have put a couple families I know had nothing to do with the issues you raised.
And another BTW. We have been HS for aover 12 years.
corect -> correct
aover -> over
It is my typing, not my spelling.
Another family I know: He works as a salesman, she works at night (elderly / special needs child, I cannot remember). Their hours are not the same as a typical family. They make it work. Are we going to now make them justify their existence?
dc girl- ahh going to the mall during school hours is not against the law. :0 Homeschoolers do choose their own hours and have more free time some days. I think you may be confused with playing hookie!
I couldn’t listen to much of that interview, I kept getting nauseated trying to listen to his reasonings. I think he made a couple of fair points, but overall he’s doing lousy job.
I concur, spend the money on boosting the salaries and hire locals. I don’t know maybe you go far away so the recruits won’t know the whole story about how system will hang you out to dry here now.
This post is to clarify some information from the article above. It seems the author is not familiar with the political status of Puerto Rico.
First of all The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is not a country it is however a Commonwealth of the United States. So when you’re standing on Puerto Rican soil you’re standing on USA soil. This is why Jaime says that you’re not leaving the US country when you go to PR to recruit.
Any person born in Puerto Rico is a citizen of the United States from the day he or she is born. There was a comment above about granting US citizenship. But as you have learned now, there is no need for that.
This is all very important now that the nation is talking about illegal immigration. When you talk of immigration you better remove Puerto Ricans from that list if you don’t want to look like an uneducated fool.
Dates: 1898 PR became part of the US
1917 ALL Puerto Ricans became citizens of the US
1952 PR became a Commonwealth
Puerto Rico was ceded to the US as a result of the Spanish-American War. Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship in 1917. Popularly-elected governors have served since 1948. In 1952, a constitution was enacted providing for internal self government. In plebiscites held in 1967, 1993, and 1998, voters chose not to alter the existing political status.