I have heard that the Sheriff has hired PO’s with no domestic violence training/experience at all to handle a DV caseload. This is really a shame since DV offenders are some of the most dangerous offenders and should be monitored extreemly closely and held accountable for their crime. I am just hoping that the PO’s who took over the DV caseload will do a good job and make sure their clients are accoubntable and not let them slip through the cracks. People’s lives depend on this!

If it was so smooth why are they looking for PO’s again? This is the 3rd time the job opening has appeared on their website even though they only hired one PO from the old ACMPS. There were qualified experienced PO’s who lost their job and the Sheriff can’t seem to find enough people to fill the positions? Or maybe some have already quit? I doubt it is as smooth as they say.

EDITOR NOTE–Our sources say they were having problems finding people who could pass the background check. Don’t know if that’s true or not. Personnel matters are exempt from disclosure.

Flyhead,
Not everyone who was punished according to Idaho’s Draconian legal system is a “misfit”, I bet if we could look into your past you too (along with everyone else in this state) is guilty of at least one crime that warrants probation according to Idaho “Law”
so, carful with the labels there bub

Why would the Guardian ask the sherriff if it is smooth? Ask us, the probationers. It is ridiculous, herding us through like cattle, not even seeing a PO, but of course billed for no service. Weird the standards are so high, maybe it’s because so many deputies there have gotten themselves into criminal and unethical behavior.

EDITOR NOTE–Gosh Brian. I didn’t know there was a directory of current probationers addresses for me to tap! 🙂 You are all welcome to offer comments of your own experiences. The sheriff reads the site and of course you can offer contact info if there is something he needs to look into.

Brian-
any form of this state’s correctional system is nothing more than legalized terrorism. if they wanted things to run smoothly, then they would run smoothly, but they wouldn’t get as much money from the people being tortured. The “probationers” are looked upon as cattle, a form of income for the Bas!@*ds who wear badges, and idiots with black robes and little wooden hammers.

To Shame… where do you get your info about domestics being the “most dangerous” offenders much to the contrary the average domestic usually ends without injury to anyone involved… the media sensationalizes the worst incidences and the sheeple think that is the norm
Read this:
Official Incidents of Domestic Violence: Types, Injury, and Associations With Nonofficial Couple AggressionCapaldi, Deborah M, PhD; Shortt, Joann Wu, PhD; Kim, Hyounk PHD ; Wilson, Jane; Crosby, Lynn
; et al.Violence and Victims 24. 4 (2009):

Injuries. During the IPV incidents, a minority of the men and a majority of the women were injured. The prevalence of any injury and each type of injury is shown by gender in Table 3. The most common injuries reported included bruising, cuts, and scrapes, and the rates for these injuries were two to four times greater for the women than the men. There were some injuries, such as being knocked down and knocked unconscious, that occurred only for women. There were no cases of broken bones, and only two women received medical treatment. For example, one case involved a severe laceration to the woman’s foot when the man ran over it with his car when trying to leave the house during an argument.

Kinda proves that domestics do not cause nearly the amount of injuries that the public is led to believe. There are many more people injured in bar fights than domestics each year.
If domestics werent such a big money maker for the courts, probation, and counselors your would see a drastic reduction in the number of arrests and convictions

this isn’t pointed at you Kam…. but… told ya so…. this is just another step in old scarry gary’s setting up to take over… where is probation now? would love to go see how its run…

as far as the fire dept and raney go… if his office catches fire.. I would be willing to bet every fire truck in Boise would break down on the way… I know that sharon thinks good ole gary is a fine man.. I dont know how rick feels… I think I will “drive by”..lol.. tomorrow.. and see whats up

They all act like wanna be cops who know little about what they are doing. They could care less that we are missing work sitting in there forever just waiting to be called to the back with a bunch of other people. Comments from everyone I spoke too are bad. We are not being supervised, just paying money. I’m writing a letter to the judge asking for unsupervised. This is pathetic.

Well breeze if that is true the probationers must be loving it. No testing, no accountability, not much of a probation is it? Probation should have some accountability that goes along with it but, this sounds like the only accountability here is the accountability the sheriff’s accountants are taking. I’m not saying good ole Gary isn’t smart he is. He knows if he lowers recidivism rates he dries up a very lucrative money stream and that wouldn’t be good for his empire building aspirations. I wouldn’t brag too much about no testing if I were you, things might change and there goes your party time.

Thank you, So few on here are able to look past their own agenda’s and see the bigger picture. One of these days government’s large and small will discover that as well intentioned as they were, they in fact have done everyone criminal and victim alike an immeasurable disservice. This system is more concerned with taking its pound of flesh(cash)than either making the victim whole or doing one thing to reform the convicted.