Wii-playing Drug Cops Receive Slap on Wrist

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And tech news is actually tech-related and not based on what the editors like to write about. Done with Wii-Apple city.

See ya there.


Enjoy your one week ban.

"Some may feel that the punishment dealt doesn't match up with the irresponsibility demonstrated..."

Sure the actions were unprofessional, but it has no bearing on the investigation and raid. Someone is watching a little too much CSI.

Slap on the wrist? i thought those Wii controllers "strapped" on their wrist...

Zing!

Even worse, I bet the training hours will be paid. Even more tax payer money down the drain.

I think a letter of retraining is sufficient. It's not like these guys were taking evidence (money or drugs) for themselves, or planting evidence, or any other form of abuse of authority. They were just screwing around when they should have been working. It's not like any of us has never done that.

If you're rich (celebrities & non-celebrities), work for the government (municipal, provincial, federal; this includes police) you always get a slap on the wrist because you're above the law.

Still ... a week should suffice.

nelson_nel, quit being unhelpful ??

hahah this was in Lakeland, my home town. POLK COUNTY SHERIFF'S FAILLl

Wah! Sorry I'm not a pseudo-intellectual like yourself

Huh, I missed this story the first time, weird. However, this was an undercover drug raid, were the cops supposed to say "no thanks, I'd rather not play Wii bowling, can you instead lead me directly to you stash of illegal drugs *whisper*testing 1-2-3*whisper*"?

I think its more ridiculous that the article states the police never recovered the guys computer that the camera was connected to. Just think of how many suspects might have been photographed on that thing. And if the police never confiscated the computer, where did the picture come from? Was the criminal allowed to post this thing to facebook or something? What kind of police are these?

nelson_nel, why are you advertising another site? That is lame and defacing that site, if it's not already defaced.

Nelson, quit taking your horrible life out on others, it's a bad cologne. We can't help if your father never hugged you, just go ahead and off yourself, you'll be doing the world a favor with one less troll.


Ps. make me a sammich! (how's that for intellect?)

Legally those retraining hours have to be paid for. An employer of any kind cannot force an employee to work without pay. That's against federal law.

Honestly, having been in law enforcement, I think what they did was irresponsible and stupid. However, I'm glad to see there wasn't anything more serious than this. I don't think this is something I'd want to have someone fired over.

I'm sure the embarrassment of the publicity over this is going to be 90% of the punishment for these officers.

That is all they should receive. People also need to remember that these letters will cause the officers problems if they seek employment elsewhere. I doubt there is anyone that would want their livelihood taken away due to some moments of bad judgment.

Yes, the training hours will be paid; it is the law. Would YOU work for free? No, so do not try and pass your ridiculous "standards" onto others. Let me tell you a quick story.

When I was in law enforcement(about two years ago), I was working a murder-suicide. The group of us was collecting evidence and gather our notes, when someone said something funny and we all chuckled. Remember now, officers deal with constantly stressful situations and living in an environment like that takes a toll rather quickly.

Well, a reporter decided to break the containment line and observed us chuckling. It came out in the paper two days later and we were all given letters in our file and force into a "touchy-feely" class. It was all total bullshit and most of us relocated in different agencies or found different careers.

Respect law enforcement officers, they do a rather hard job. When they are working for 24 and 48 hours straight on a case, do not shit on them for taking break. Yeah, the raid might have lasted nine hours, but I can bet you that they spent double or triple that preparing just prior.

I bet that there are hardly any of you that could do that job a quarter as good as those officers.

Who among you haven't played solitaire or free cell at work cast the first stone. Not worth a letter and training or we would all be getting it at our jobs.

man....give them a break...they get **** pay... after going through training that rivals most Army camps, and see things everyday that we only see in movies, or nightmares...i say "LET THEM PLAY Wii DAMMIT"!!!!

jeez

These people put their lives at risk everyday. I don't care if they decided to have a little fun in a world that is mostly danger for them.

I don't care that it was on "taxpayers money" either, because law enforcement officers/first responders/etc. are underpaid to begin with.

I'd rather my tax money goes towards their existence rather than have it get handed out to people who happen to be in a lower income bracket because it's the "American" thing to do, that's for damn sure.

I think montezuma has it right here. There's no story here; a moment of careless loss of control, but no big deal. I do hope the "retraining" recognizes their need to be able to let off a little steam from time to time.

You are a pseudo-human being.

sudo Stay off of Toms.

I see nothing wrong with what they did.

Everyone's overlooking the most important thing- that the officers failed to notice that the guy's cam was on and recording. That's much more serious than playing a little Wii.

I live in Lakeland now, see what happens in this place?

^_^ Good ole polk county cops, gotta love 'em

next time you look at your checks and hate how much the state and feds remove, remember this case where we paid them to sit around and play video games and we paid for them to get retrained, which wont do shit.

They cops should be fired. The home owner certainly should sue. If there was any evidence found it will most likely be excluded as evidence at any trial. The problem is when you hire idiots and give them a gun and they stay idiots, only now they have a superiority complex. Bad police work is the reason why so many criminals go free in this country. Just follow the rules and do your job, its what EVERYONE ELSE DOES. No one forces a cop to join the dangerous profession, most do it because they WANT the gun and the power trip.

Most people don't have jobs that can get them shot for writing a simple ticket you idiot.

These cops blew of some steam, and quit acting like you never screwed off at work. Mr. goody goody good shoes. They did exactly what most every one else does had a little fun at work.

This is some bull shit ... I have known bosses that would fire employees for fuckigna round for an hour whil clocked in at work .. why the hell should these cops get any better treatment ?

I've never screwed around at work unless i was on my lunch break and even then i didnt screw around for an hour

Are you people kidding me?

If ANY of you were caught by your bosses playing a Wii while on a meeting with a client, or doing some other task that is costing the company thousands of dollars would ANY of you still have a job the next day?

But they are cops, so incompetence and unprofessionalism are waved away as "blowing off steam". And then one of these imbeciles screws something up major and everyone wonders why.

no they were not -layignthe game with teh busted criminal as part of teh "job" , theyw ere palyign teh game for an hour durring the hosue search that happened post-arrest.. meanign they were screwing around when they should have been getting thier job done

I'll not bitch when , i'm not the one paying them, if they want a break they can have it ater theya re finished working, i don't get paid for breaks at my job , so why sould my tax money pay for thier breaks ?




maybe big city cops actulaly stick it up for the little guy , but out here in teh boonies the cops arn't so noble. nearly 80% our police department has been busted 3 times for corruption (each time that percentage was fired , and then the enxt line of dirty coppswould jsut fill teh palce up) hell one of the guys i went to high school with became a dirty cop. a friend of mine car broke down , so he walked to town , well he was a little intoxicated , (but his wife was driving ) my ex high school aquaintance , arrested him for being publicly intxicated , harasing him the whole time trying to provoke himm to fight by telling him they were gonna go get blow jobs from his wife to give her a lift, meanwhile my friend's wife and thier infant child were stuck on the side of the road for hours.. so don't give me shit about teh nobility of cops because i just haven't ever seen in in the places i live.