POLICE Magazine

Watch What You Post

Social networking sites are great for meeting new people and having some fun, but don’t let that fun kill your career.

by Dean Scoville

via POLICE Magazine.

Snippet of Article.

Cops, like any other members of a high-stress profession, like to joke around about what happens at work. Many of these jokes would be considered crude or insensitive, perhaps even slanderous, by people who don’t work as police officers. But as long as the public doesn’t hear these jokes then the attitude of most administrators is no harm, no foul.

Unfortunately, such cop jokes are now being voiced in public. A generation ago, when cops wanted to blow off steam, they met some place private, had a few beers, and nobody outside the circle knew what was said or done.