The reality show "The Academy"

[aybyman]

How close is this to resembling the actual sheriff's academy?

What parts are similar and what parts are different? Are some of the recruits really as slow (both mentally and physically) as the TV show makes them seem?

[hill billy]

You do realize that is the ACTUAL class at the academy and not fiction, right? Sadly it's pretty close. The Dept has relaxed it's standards on women and minorities due to their consent decree that these are the champions they're graduating these days.

[bluestaterebel]

You do realize that is the ACTUAL class at the academy and not fiction, right? Sadly it's pretty close. The Dept has relaxed it's standards on women and minorities due to their consent decree that these are the champions they're graduating these days.

Since when does the LASD have a Consent Decree?

[hill billy]

Since when does the LASD have a Consent Decree?

Not sure how long it's been in effect. White males need not apply. I was told today by an LT in the know that very shortly they expect all female academy classes.

[bluestaterebel]

Not sure how long it's been in effect. White males need not apply. I was told today by an LT in the know that very shortly they expect all female academy classes.

LASD does not have a Consent Decree, LAPD does. I dont know about all female classes but there is an emphasis on hiring females. I know LAPD wants its police force to reflect its citizens. I think it does as it concerns to race but way low on gender.

[hill billy]

LASD's consent decree is right there on the front page of the sworn recruitment page.

Halfway down the page

http://www.lasd.org/recruitment/index-sworn.html

[Fire in the Hole]

I could throw in here as a former cadet of two big established LE Academies, and years later as a Staff DI. But perhaps my input has a little dust on it. So, I'll hold back so that someone with fresh knowledge can answer. But Let me tell you this. I think the LASO is head and shoulders above all other SO's in the country. LA County citizens don't realize how good they really have it until they move somewhere else. No, I am not an LASO Deputy.

As far as some of the cadets appearing a bit on the slow or even dumb side. The staff has but a few short weeks to take a bunch of people from all walks of life, every religion including athesists, straights, gays, the gamet of our entire socialial-economic strata, the bold, the timid, single children, or big mormon families, GED's to Ph.D.'s, world class atheletes to couch potatos, conservatives and liberals, veterans to peace activists, rich and poor, the prim and proper to the sweat hogs, and form them into a cohesive team unit where no chain is stronger than it's weakest link. Strip them of their clothing and replace it with a single uniform. Stress them in physical and mental breaking points. Demand them to perform well while injured, cold, wet, exhausted and hungry. Make them punctual at 0600 despite their commute and have them recite the correct legal answer while being beaked in the forehead by "The Hat", feeling the spray of saliva from the DI's mouth, as your brain scrools down through your memory banks to not only remember the perfect answer, but recite it flawlessly without stammering, stuttering, or crying. Have a TV news crew inches from you, taping and recording every word and jesture you make for posterity. As you compose yourself and deliver the answer, imagine a throng of people standing around you in a circle taunting you with words like: "You must think you're better than us. We'll sue you. You wouldn't say that if you couldn't hide behind that badge, I pay your salary. How come you're not at a doughnut shop? Haven't you made your quotta today Pig? Couldn't you get a real job? You deserve to be fired and put in jail." Then come the water baloons filled with urine and feces lobbed at you.

Now consider a 30 year career of similiar events. And wonder why there is such a high attrition rate. Why is there such a high divorce rate. Why is alcoholism so prevalent? Why is there such a high suicide rate?

Beats me.

[bluestaterebel]

LASD's consent decree is right there on the front page of the sworn recruitment page.

Halfway down the page

http://www.lasd.org/recruitment/index-sworn.html

I guess they do have a consent decree as it pertains to the hiring of women, but it looks like it has been in effect for 20 years.

Its a bad time to get hired right now, but i would still recommend LAPD. God bless the guys in green but they got to do several years (up to 5) working the jails after they graduate. and then they have to go back to the academy to get retrained to work the streets. And when they do go into the streets as 3-5 year veterans they get treated like rookies.

Join the LAPD and you could be working the streets of South Central the day after you graduate. Unless youre scared that is. In that case we'll put you in the Valley.

[hill billy]

Its a bad time to get hired right now, but i would still recommend LAPD. God bless the guys in green but they got to do several years (up to 5) working the jails after they graduate.

Not correct, exactly. If you want to be in the AV, you can be out in a few months. In any case, it is a very bad time to be a white male trying to become a deputy. Sadly, they make up the bulk of the candidates, and so many guys who would be good deputies are getting bumped by fat chicks who can't pass many portions of the testing requirements.

[bluestaterebel]

Not correct, exactly. If you want to be in the AV, you can be out in a few months. In any case, it is a very bad time to be a white male trying to become a deputy. Sadly, they make up the bulk of the candidates, and so many guys who would be good deputies are getting bumped by fat chicks who can't pass many portions of the testing requirements.

Antelope Valley? nah, real cops work Century or Lennox, even East L.A.

[hill billy]

Antelope Valley? nah, real cops work Century or Lennox, even East L.A.

Right. You know that the AV is one of the busiest and most productive divisions for LASD, right?

Real cops don't have to proclaim that their patrol area is what makes them a "real" cop on an internetz forumz.

[bluestaterebel]

Right. You know that the AV is one of the busiest and most productive divisions for LASD, right?

Real cops don't have to proclaim that their patrol area is what makes them a "real" cop on an internetz forumz.

When you pin a badge on, then you can talk sheeat. its what we do, you'll see

[eviioiive]

someone on this forum was on the show....

[retired]

When you pin a badge on, then you can talk sheeat. its what we do, you'll see

That is the absolute truth and some more than others, right.

In my day it was Firestone, Lennox and then Lynwood when we took them over.

[bluestaterebel]

That is the absolute truth and some more than others, right.

In my day it was Firestone, Lennox and then Lynwood when we took them over.

Yeah, I dont doubt that Antelope Valley may be busy, but I'll be sure to ask Homicide where they spend most of their time.