Crap I hate includes...
Mar. 10th, 2011 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearShitty journalism for the sake of sensationalism and relevance, and Channel 9 just did it in spades:
High-Profile Montgomery Cop Paid For Not Working | wusa9.com:
as for the initial acquittal, that isn't enough - the department needs to close all open items of concern because even with an acquittal there can still be a civil suit that the department will have to deal with...but that still doesn't mean the department has to keep this person on the payroll doing nothing while waiting for said civil lawsuit to finally arise. i wouldn't be surprised if they're not finding a conclusion to the investigation just as a stalling tactic because the civil case can't be filed until the investigation is considered 'done'.
but trying to pin this as being "because of collective bargaining" - that's baiting a story as being political when no politics were involved, and there was no reason to do that. VERY bad reporting, channel 9. ALL police departments have "paid leave while under investigation" policies. the fact that this particular department founded it as a result of a particular union bargain was utterly irrelevant to the situation. it was a blatantly biased fact, solely put in (and in the first paragraph) to evoke emotional reactions from those following the Wisconsin situation, and making civil service unions look bad for no reason other than sensationalism.
This type of yellow journalism was (I thought) passe 95 years ago.
(Update: and when somebody decides to defend the anti-union stance by citing Walker's "teacher's union's rules forced me to fire the teacher of the year" editorial in the Wall Street Journal, I almost am too sick to laugh at the ignorance...)
High-Profile Montgomery Cop Paid For Not Working | wusa9.com:
ROCKVILLE, Md. (WUSA) -- Bound by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with its police union, the Montgomery County Police Department continues to pay an officer who performs no duties after being charged and acquitted of perjury for making statements in a criminal trial that proved to be untrue.it isn't the paid leave of absence, it is the fact that the bureaucracy around actually conducting this "investigation" is taking a year and a half with no sign of actually even taking place, nevermind ending any time soon.
as for the initial acquittal, that isn't enough - the department needs to close all open items of concern because even with an acquittal there can still be a civil suit that the department will have to deal with...but that still doesn't mean the department has to keep this person on the payroll doing nothing while waiting for said civil lawsuit to finally arise. i wouldn't be surprised if they're not finding a conclusion to the investigation just as a stalling tactic because the civil case can't be filed until the investigation is considered 'done'.
but trying to pin this as being "because of collective bargaining" - that's baiting a story as being political when no politics were involved, and there was no reason to do that. VERY bad reporting, channel 9. ALL police departments have "paid leave while under investigation" policies. the fact that this particular department founded it as a result of a particular union bargain was utterly irrelevant to the situation. it was a blatantly biased fact, solely put in (and in the first paragraph) to evoke emotional reactions from those following the Wisconsin situation, and making civil service unions look bad for no reason other than sensationalism.
This type of yellow journalism was (I thought) passe 95 years ago.
(Update: and when somebody decides to defend the anti-union stance by citing Walker's "teacher's union's rules forced me to fire the teacher of the year" editorial in the Wall Street Journal, I almost am too sick to laugh at the ignorance...)
