Comments on: Dancing The Cop Shuffle https://boiseguardian.com/2005/07/29/dancing-the-cop-shuffle/ A different slant on the news. Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tam https://boiseguardian.com/2005/07/29/dancing-the-cop-shuffle/#comment-80 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:33:01 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/wp/?p=68#comment-80 The system you refer to was known was the Dual Career Ladder. Something conceived during Union negotiations many years ago; Chief Carvino, I believe. It was supposed to be accompanied by behaviorally anchored standards which officers had to maintain (a sure level of proficiency in each skill area). The standards were never developed and the system ended up money for nothing or “pay for breathing” as one good friend referred to it. (Then Lt.) Tibbs was in charge of the development of the Dual Career Ladder, which he tended to develop around a certain detective who never aspired to a supervisory position but certainly MUST have been worth more pay than a regular detective.

Chief Masterson is a wise man indeed if he saw through this ruse of pay for everything from foreign languages to blood spatter analysis. Good for him and good for the City for allowing him to move forward with disbanding some of the pet programs developed in a day when gladhanding was more valued than preventing and solving crimes.

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