PRESS RELEASE:
The City of Bishop is currently accepting applications for the position of Police Officer (Lateral) Salary: $4944-$6104 per month.
Excellent benefit package. For applications and further information please contact: Pam Galvin, Bishop Police Department, 207 W. Line, Bishop, CA 93514, (760) 873-5823.
Email: [email protected]. Applications must be received in this office by 5pm, 9-10-12.
I know I was one of the leaders throwing stones at the local PD here, but I have been upset ever since Mr. Caldwell (now our city administrator) closed the state board park and blamed it on someone seeing a supposed drug deal near the state board park. I have… Read more »
Well I support the PD where they deserve it, but they are not always the best as you say Kate. I don’t say it is every officer because it is not. but there are some that feel they need to ride herd on the kids in town like a bunch… Read more »
I don’t understand why everyone cant just support our local Law Enforcement, I think they do there job and do it well. There is obviously problems at the skate park. You think they like running around harassing kids, that’s just stupid. To sit there and say they are to many… Read more »
Just an observation Wayne, not a dig … but the LP skate park as i have seen, is in an area that is pretty much in the open, where as the Bishop skate park is in the middle of the city park, and out of site pretty much .. so… Read more »
Jeangenie- I agree with you that we have a huge law enforcement per capita and I believe many of our locals are forced into our legal system at alarming rates . I will never agree with the heavy handed way our public officials have made every kid that hangs out… Read more »
Trouble, I just brought up a fee if the city complains they can’t afford a full-time monitor. It would have to be cheaper then a full time cop. I agree it should be free. Benett and Wayne, I am only suggesting that if the skatepark were supervised, they wouldn’t need… Read more »
I’m not complaining. Skateboards are not my thing.
BK
Sorry Benett,
didn’t mean to include you as a complainer, Just to address your comment about law enforcement being called out to the Park a lot, all the more reason to have people out there keeping an eye on things and enforcing code.
JeanGenie….The way you describe what you’d like,a “monitor” would be a citizen….not able to enforce laws…..all a monitor could do is call law enforcement when problems came up.And chances are a monitor would be something like a George Zimmerman “wanna-be” cop….which could bring on a whole new set of problems.
JeanGenie…hit the submit too soon…One more example to what I had to say..and why a monitor would not work..If I were in the park and someone came up to me asking if I had a dollar or spare change to give them (which has happened),and I were to reach into… Read more »
Wayne, Not talking about a “citizen” (do you mean volunteer?). Talking about a city employee. The city has a right to employ park maintenence people, also park “rangers”. If I am cutting firewood, riding a snowmobile, etc. the forest service has a right to approach me and make sure I… Read more »
Just FYI, before the City temporarily shut down the skate park, a parent had called the police to report
witnessing a drug deal and was very concerned.
Benett
Hey benett I fixed your comment for you;
a parent had called the police to report
witnessing a “alleged” drug deal and was very concerned.
Why have cops patrolling the skate park anyway? Why not hire a few monitors (like lifeguards at the pool) much cheaper. It shouldn’t really be a law enforcement issue anyway. Using law enforcement just makes the situation worse by making the “outlaws” feel tough and more at odds with the… Read more »
Police also respond to citizen complaints and concerns. They got enough of them re: the skate park that they felt
some action was required. Just something to consider.
Benett Kessler
JeanGenie…..The two times I left my dog at the Bishop vet and went to the park to kill some time,I was suprised,to say the least,at things I saw going on at the skatepark….the things that stood out the most was the vile language being used,the trash everywhere,and obvious drug use… Read more »
Wayne- was the kid doing a 360 off a ramp, smoking a joint and selling it all at once. Give me a break. No, give the innocent skateboarding kid up here the same break you gave your Lone Pine kids a break.
Inyo resident, I think your percentage is a little high, the percentage of the problem is usually totally the opposite as you claim. It is true there is a lot of crap at the skate park as with many other places and things, not only for kids but for adults.… Read more »
Come on 1234- I don’t get to blog about want adds for bored cops very often.
Trouble, there are the good kids at the skatepark that deserve to be there and enjoy the ammenities from the park. But unfortunatelly about 90% of the kids that hang out in the park are young adults, who don’t work, don’t go to school and sit at the park all… Read more »
InyoRes.- This will be my last blog on this article. I didn’t really mean to piss off all of our police officers, just wanted to make a point that I hope the police will take it easy on some of our bored youth running around here. There is so little… Read more »
Bob, it doesn’t take all day to sit here and read and post things here, so that seems to be all you know of it, I guess? I post more that Trouble does, and I am only on here in the evening, sometimes late night.
1234- your likely correct in some sense, but I clearly don’t take blog comments as sensitive as you. Sorry Darling.
This is a great oppertunity for somone.
I have had nothing but positive experiences dealing with Bishop P.D.
Their profesionalism is top notch.
have never HAD TROUBLE or a ticket until I came here. They are almost all related and , if you are related to them, you can get out of anything, Gosh then we have the DA. Please, I used to tell my kids that all cops will help you, just… Read more »
Trouble,
Somehow I don’t think you could pass the rigorous training and background investigation that a qualified law enforcement officer has been through. Give it a shot!
@1234
“Somehow I don’t think you could pass the rigorous training and background investigation that a qualified law enforcement officer has been through”.
Why then do I see so many cops in such poor physical shape??
The ad is for LATERALS ONLY. That means you have to be (already) employed as a police officer elsewhere and be P.O.S.T. certified. That way, Bishop PD doesn’t have to wait 6 months (minimum) for a recruit to graduate from an academy, to put a new officer on the street.… Read more »
Yeah Rick .. no guarantee we will get a good officer lateraling in either. Just roll the dice, and hope we get a good officer.
1234,
Not everybody likes or wants a job where they get to abuse and push people around. (No offense to the 40% or so cops around here that are actually concerned about making the world a better safer place.)
Hey at least they are doing something to earn a pay check and not sitting on their butts in front of their computer waiting for a new post to pop up on sierra wave. Come to think of it Trouble, you should be a wealthy man cause that is all… Read more »
That’s tellin’ ’em Bob.
We don’t want this blog to turn into an extension of The Rush Limbaugh Show or other mean-spirited types of “entertainment” or cheap therapy.
Bob- fyi I work hard, pay my bills and don’t like how the police and parks and rec. people treat our kids at the stake board park. Sorry you don’t like the way I express my self. But I will continue to do so until Sierrawave cuts me off.
Be nice to Trouble .. He has nothing else to do. He retired at 50 and is collecting a very sizable Public Pension.
Taxifornia- you clearly don’t know anything about me.Keep guessing, i’ll let you know when your getting warm.
Why are the elected officials so indolent as to ignore the gigantic drain on the county by having the county seat in such an obscure place as Bridgeport?
Bridgeport generates next to nothing economically for the county yet accepts all the trappings from the Mono County taxpayer.
What prompts the “Beast of Many Names” to make up those derogatory fantasies about people? I wonder if he really believes them?
I’m livid because Silicon Valley doesn’t set up shop here. Why? Because that’s my field of expertise, and I need the work. Oh, and by the way, those in the service sector are still stupid to work at such crappy jobs! Idea for Ken Warner: Why not apply your technical… Read more »
trouble,,, it was just a joke
lol
$6104.00 to guard the skateboard park. Where do I apply?
Crime is quite low in Bishop, do we really need to hire another police officer.