9 Departments and Multiple Infractions for One New Jersey Police Officer

[SummerMadness]

9 Departments and Multiple Infractions for One New Jersey Police Officer

He left one department after failing to meet its standards. At another, he racked up disciplinary infractions. He was fired from a third, yet succeeded in getting hired at another.

By the time the officer, Ryan Dubiel, 31, began patrolling the streets of this small town last year, he was at his ninth police department, and had a history of troubling social media posts and a pattern of arrests that resulted in the injury of the suspect. He succeeded in getting hired in part because New Jersey remains one of only five states that cannot revoke a police officer’s accreditation over misconduct. It also has no central database tracking police malfeasance and, until recently, had stringent rules preventing the disclosure of disciplinary records between agencies.

 

[seeking.IAM]

Here is yet another and possibly related problem. Lawyers have HR departments so scared of being sued that past employers no longer give bad news about their former employee, but are restricted to confirming only dates of employment. So bad apples get passed on to others. As an employer, it frustrates me.