The need for first responders in Maine isn't going away - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
The need for first responders in Maine isn't going away - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ |
- The need for first responders in Maine isn't going away - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ
- Research reveals Blasey Ford was 'heavy drinker' and 'aggressive with boys' in HS, but none of it was reported - BizPac Review
- FBI looking to recruit more female agents | News Headlines - KMOV.com
| The need for first responders in Maine isn't going away - NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ Posted: 09 Jul 2019 04:09 PM PDT  BANGOR, Maine — A simple Google search will pull up first responder jobs from Buxton to Fort Kent -- but no one seems to know why. "Newer people considering getting into the field are really weighing the benefits of getting into police work, especially for a career, versus the compensation," Bangor Police Sgt. Wade Betters said. "Years ago, there were three hundred people for one or two jobs. Now, we're lucky if we get seven or eight qualified applicants for several openings." The City of Bangor has multiple officer openings, and officials are doing their best to recruit qualified candidates. Betters says becoming a police officer is a lot of work. After recruiters find qualified applicants, those applicants have to sit before an oral board, pass a polygraph, pass an extensive background check, pass a fitness test, go through the police academy, and then participate in additional training with their new department. "So just to get hired is an uphill climb," Betters said. It takes about a year to fully on-board an officer. And with overtime and other things, some officers burn out and leave the police force. "Not a lot of people are as interested in going to the biggest and busiest departments anymore," Betters said. "Mostly, in my opinion, because a lot of the smaller departments offer the same compensation." Being a police officer is a lot of work -- and with a lot of work, comes a lot of responsibility. It's sometimes a responsibility that some don't want. "What could start out being a simple traffic stop could have a huge impact on someone's life," Officer Duncan Bowie said. Fire departments are no different. "The vacancies aren't the problem. The small application pool is what's the problem for us," Bangor Fire Chief Tom Higgins said. "I think that there are more careers offered today than there were years ago." Higgins says things have changed from the days of people leaving farms and wanting to pick up a career like firefighting. Now, there's technology and other career paths. Not only that, but the unemployment rate is low, which means fewer people are even looking for jobs. And some of those who are looking are students -- not all of which are interested in working for local agencies. They want to go federal. Husson University fifth-year student Jenny Cobb is currently interning with the United States Department of Homeland Security. "I get to help fill out evidence. I get to look through evidence. I mean, that's a lot of people's dreams in the (criminal justice) program to be able to just do that while you're in school," she said. Cobb has been approached by local agencies. "There's a few that really wanted me to apply for local. Unfortunately, local is not really where I'm thinking about right now," she said. And one of her professors, John Michaud, says students have options. "So it's not that they don't want to be first responders. It's that they have the opportunity to be first responders where they want to be," he said.  |
| Posted: 10 Jul 2019 05:45 AM PDT  Christine Blasey Ford, the left-wing professor who shot to fame in September 2018 after leveling 11th hour accusations that US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had groped her 36 years ago, was not the apolitical angel the left-wing media painted her to be, according to a new book. While researching their book "Justice on Trial," co-authors Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino spoke with numerous people close to Blasey Ford who say she was a heavy drinker who was loose with the boys back in high school. "[She was] a heavy drinker who was much more aggressive with boys than we were led to believe," Hemingway said on the Ingraham Angle. "Not only was she not asked about that, but you do not see media coverage of it." She added: "We had these presentations at the time the accusations were made that Blasey Ford was an apolitical person who by all accounts in the Washington Post was a veritable saint. We talked to people who know her, who were friends with her, who say that their recollection…was very much at odds with what that media presentation was. She was a highly political person." (Source: Ingraham Angle) Mollie Hemingway's co-author Carrie Severino noted that Blasey Ford scrubbed her social media before she leveled unsubstantiated, decades-old groping allegations against Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Severino says Blasey Ford's social media accounts were very left-wing, political and biased, and that's why she deleted all her social media before going public with her 36-year-old groping allegations against Kavanaugh. "It was very carefully done," Severino said. "[This is] someone who says, 'I don't want this to be public.' But the first person she called was the Washington Post tip line. It does not line up with the explanation we got. Instead of doing this in a confidential manner, it is being broken in the Washington Post. Hemingway suggested that Christine Blasey Ford's family didn't believe her groping allegations either because they didn't show up to her hearing in Washington and didn't really defend her in the press. "While everyone who was sitting behind Brett Kavanaugh was investigated within an inch of their life at his hearing, nobody noticed the fact that there weren't [any Blasey Ford] family members there," Hemingway said. In a sworn declaration to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Blasey Ford's former boyfriend — businessman Brian Merrick — said she once coached her "lifelong best friend" on how to pass a polygraph test when the friend was interviewing for jobs with the FBI and DOJ. This directly contradicts Ford's sworn testimony at her Senate hearing, when she claimed she never helped anyone prepare for a lie detector test.
This was relevant because Democrats repeatedly bragged that Christine Blasey Ford was credible because she passed a polygraph test. Polygraphs are inadmissible in court because they are unreliable, since even the biggest liars can be coached to pass them. In his sworn statement, Brian Merrick also said Blasey Ford never once mentioned Brett Kavanaugh or said she was a victim of sexual misconduct during the six years they dated, from 1992 to 1998. "During our time dating, Dr. Ford never brought up anything regarding her experience as a victim of sexual assault, harassment, or misconduct. Dr. Ford never mentioned Brett Kavanaugh," the letter states. Did we mention that Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford pocketed almost $1 million in GoFundMe donations? AOC hit with twin federal lawsuits by Democrat and Republican for 'cowardly' Twitter blocks  |
| FBI looking to recruit more female agents | News Headlines - KMOV.com Posted: 09 Jul 2019 04:01 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) - It's a tough job and not one for the faint of heart, but the FBI wants more women to consider joining the force. Special Agent Cindy Dockery said only 20 percent of all FBI agents are women. She's hoping to change that. "It takes someone who is willing to sometimes put in a long number of hours in a day," said Dockery. Dockery joined the FBI 16 years ago after completing a 6-month training process. To successfully become an agent, one must pass a written test, oral exam, polygraph and a physical fitness test. Dockery said most applicants don't pass the fitness test the first time around. It includes a 300-meter sprint, 1.5 mile run, and consecutive push-ups and sit-ups. Applicants are given five minutes to rest in between each exercise. "I think it helps when your adrenaline is flowing, you don't know what you're going to expect and if your body is in shape, it can handle that adrenaline better," said Dockery. The fitness test is taken once a year and if you don't pass, you're able to retake it. The FBI is holding a formal recruitment event to attract more women on July 24. If you're interested, you can find details here, then click on "Apply to Jobs" and search "Women's Symposium" to pre-register for the event.  |
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