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Frustration in ranks of Queensland Police after roster 'trial' announced · The Slippery Slope

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  Right, Jay Fallon, thanks for listening to The Slippery Slope.
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  So last year I'd had a few suspicions that a few things
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  were going on. I thought that the podcast, The
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  Slippery Slope Podcast, was being restricted.
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  I had my suspicions about how and why this was going on.
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  I'd received a couple of communications which to me
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  seemed to suggest that I was being monitored, maybe not just
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  by YouTube but also by specific government agencies.
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  I suppose you want to you can call them and I thought this
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  might have been happening and a few things that happened with
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  specifically with YouTube, but also also with some of the well,
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  these things that go out on Spotify and that as well.
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  And I thought it must be they they must have shadow banned.
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  Obviously the podcast and they're putting restrictions on
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  how far out it's it's the reach is going.
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  And this was confirmed a few times I think when I had
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  episodes while I was getting communications from from main
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  ones from YouTube saying, hey, well we've looked at this
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  episode and it's no longer restricted.
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  The problem is no one had told me these episodes were
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  restricted in the 1st place. And this, this has happened 12/1
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  was 12 months. Another one was 18 months after
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  they were initially restricted. So basically I've done an
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  episode, YouTube had restricted the episode going out.
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  They hadn't bothered telling me and in, you know, 12 months, 18
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  months later, look at this, your your episode is now available
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  for the public. Everyone's led to go and watch
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  it. Obviously by then it's too late.
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  You know, if that having things restricted for that long and
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  this is going on over multiple episodes.
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  And I think it's I thought I think it is a lot more episodes
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  that have been restricted and they just not telling me and I'm
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  going to find out in the future. Hey, look, you know, we've we
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  finally released this episode. Look at this.
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  So this has been happening. I'd assumed going by some things
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  that I've heard and seen that there was some government, but
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  this was government agencies not to be too, you know, too vague
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  about things. But obviously there was there
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  was some government agencies, people in in government anyway,
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  somewhere watching or monitoring the slippery slope podcast to
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  some degree. And I think this is part of the
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  reason why I've had these restrictions restrictions going
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  on. So this was basically confirmed,
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  not on purpose. I found out kind of by accident
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  that's this is definitely happening and that the episodes
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  that the podcast is being monitored.
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  All these kinds of things help with pushing back against the
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  restrictions. But this is what's been going
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  on. So anyway, if you can't help, if
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  it's in your power at all, I guess I'm not not asking for
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  anything else, just likes, shares, comments, this kind of
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  thing. But unfortunately, this is the
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  way our society is gone where governments feel so well, how do
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  you say it? Governments, they don't want
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  openness. They don't want transparency and
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  they don't like people pushing back against the narrative that
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  they are pushing. They're putting out there.
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  So if you don't toe the line and if you're not and if you're
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  putting things, releasing it in social media and it might be
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  just simply just clapping back at some of the things that they
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  the narratives that they're putting out or even pointing out
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  some of the things that they're saying.
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  That's not really 100% true. Obviously they push back and
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  they, they push back in, you know what is now unfortunately
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  the legal way of doing things, but it's not which I suppose
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  governments have always done this anyway.
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  Governments and police, you know, they'll, they will use,
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  they weaponize, weaponize the law.
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  They weaponize the law against citizens who they don't agree
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  with and they feel are a threat to them and their power.
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  So in some small way, I suppose that's something to be there and
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  say, OK, well, at least I've been noticed.
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  I can be a little bit proud of, I suppose that someone's taken
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  it upon themselves to, to push back and to fight back.
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  And it might mean that maybe some of the things that I've
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  said that have really hit a nerve, struck a nerve.
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  Anyway, like I said, just like share comments, jump on check
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  out the the stuff should pretty much be the same on Spotify or
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  Apple Podcasts. Anyway, let's get to the main
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  thing I want to check out today. This has just come.
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  This is a story about QPS and it came out a couple of days ago.
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  A big share that to my old mate, the the trolley boy, little one
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  for for putting this out there for flicking this to me and
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  we'll have a listen to the story.
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  And I've just got a few thoughts that I wanted to share with you.
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  Frustration tonight in the ranks of Queensland police following a
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  decision to overhaul rosters on the Gold Coast. 9 News can
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  reveal a trial will begin in January combining all the coast
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  stations onto a single roster, but officers fear the new system
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  may worsen burnout. Overworked and overstretched.
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  100% police on the Gold Coast are feeling burnout.
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  The frustrations of some frontline police now growing
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  after management announced a roster overhaul on January 25.
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  All Gold Coast stations will move to this single roster after
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  officers were given seven options to vote on.
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  What we want to try and do is better line our rosters to
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  manage our demand so we can improve community safety but
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  allow our officers to be able to work a roster.
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  It gives them a work life balance and allows them to have
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  less fatigue. But sources have told 9 News the
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  changes will rely on the Rapid Action and Patrol Unit to fill
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  station vacancies. Additionally, station inquiry
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  sections, which handle administrative tasks like
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  domestic violence paperwork, will be scrapped, potentially
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  leaving General Judy's officers with a greater load.
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  Will that not add to the load of officers and increase burnout?
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  So we think there'll be greater flexibility in allowing people
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  to do some of those functions across a broad spectrum of
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  policing. One officer telling 9 News the
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  feeling on the ground is that the roster reason going to work
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  and that A1 size fits all approach is strange, claims
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  senior management are defending. We're not taking rosters and
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  changing them a complete 180. We're just moving them slight
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  slightly so that we've got staff when the demand is and as we go
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  through the trial we'll identify issues and either address them
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  or have them included in the evaluation.
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  The shake up comes after the police service engaged rostering
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  experts with the trial to run for three months.
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  A similar system will also be tested in the North Brisbane
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  districts. I've got no doubt talking to
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  staff, the majority of the staff on the Gold Coast want to see
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  some change and I think if we can give that, we'll maintain
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  community safety a lot better. Bailey, Kenzie. 9 News.
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  Listen, I believe the main reason why we've got issues with
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  QPS and with with the police all over this nation in every state,
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  our governments, the people in leadership do not want
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  functional police. It it's suits their agenda to
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  have a police service or a police force that is suffering
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  from burnout, that is, that does have all this internal bickering
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  going on our I can only really talk about QBs as far as my
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  experience goes, but the the leadership team within
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  Queensland Police Service created an extremely adversarial
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  workplace environment. I'll go back to what happened
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  with the mandates. Police saw how easily it is to
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  lose your job, to be stood down without pay.
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  You're given a, you're given a man that you're given a
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  direction that you don't agree with.
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  You're made to partake, to participate in that direction
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  under threat of losing your job, under threat of losing your
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  income. And of course, of course you're
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  going to go along with that. You, what other choice do you
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  have, regardless of whether you think it's unlawful or not.
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  So they've created this environment that's made for a
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  very, very adversarial workplace environment.
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  Now we've and it's given rise to a lot more, I think people on
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  the ranks who are a bit more leaning towards dictators and
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  despots, OK. And you don't have police who
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  are willing to push back, to push back against the leadership
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  regarding the rostering changes the leadership team have caused
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  the issues have caused the burnouts because we've had so
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  many police, so many experienced officers leaving.
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  And yet they're not willing to deal with the issues at the top.
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  They're not willing to, to, to face the issue, the facts.
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  That is the leadership. That is the problem.
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  They need a complete overhaul in the leadership.
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  The reason why they won't have a complete overhaul in the
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  leadership is that this is what the government wants.
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  Regardless of whether it's Labour or Liberal, this is what
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  they want. They don't want a completely
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  fully functioning police service.
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  They don't want a police service that that questions the
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  government motives or pushes back against, against some of
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  the government legislation. They just want a police service
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  that will go along kowtow and just move along go along and and
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  and just just follow the directions of whatever
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  government is currently in order.
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  They don't want to police force a police service that pushes
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  back at all and this is called. This is given rise to a
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  dysfunctional and a burned out within the Queensland Police
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  service. We, we see the main reason for
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  the burnout is because of the lack of police officers,
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  regardless of whether they've, they've been able to bring their
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  recruiting up within the last 12 months, they shouldn't have been
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  in that position in the 1st place.
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  And they're only in that position because they pushed the
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  mandates, pushed so many police out there out of the service.
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  They created this adversarial workplace environment and they
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  are, they're paying the price for that environment that they
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  created. The way I see it is that
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  government doesn't want a properly functioning police
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  service. They want a police service that
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  just toes the line. So they're all, they're all very
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  willing to have police who are constantly in burnout, who are
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  constantly in fear of losing their jobs, who do not want to
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  push back too much because you know you'll be stood down.
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  They've caused this problem. That's not to say that I don't
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  think trialling, trialling the, the roster is a, is a bad thing
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  to do, but at the heart of it is the burnout, which is what
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  they've caused. But now as I've said before, you
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  know, they caused the problem and then they say, oh, but here
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  let us, let us now fix the problem that they caused.
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  But they don't want to admit that they caused the problem in
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  the 1st place. But I think this has all been
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  done on purpose anyway, because this is the type of officer that
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  they are chasing. They want they're chasing the
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  government's at large is chasing police officers that do not push
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  back too much and just toe the line for the government agenda.
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  That's my opinion. Let me know what you think.
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  I'm Jay Fallon. Thanks for listening to the
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  Slippery Slope.