APPENDIX F: Law Enforcement Issues for Roundtable Discussion
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Manpower
Funding
Too much competing overtime
Lack of prosecution for drug impaired drivers
Technology is a deterrent
Body cameras – as a positive and negative Lack of leadership or leadership prioritization
Toxicology – resources and equipment, chemists, backlog
9. Succession (experienced officers go onto day shift and newer inexperienced officers get night) 10. Legalizing or defunding sobriety checkpoints 11. Retooling jobs and focusing on terror training and shooter training over other priorities; has eclipsed traffic enforcement; disbanded traffic units in order to provide a School Resource Officer in every school after FL shooting 12. Lack of community support produces lack of motivation; de‐policing so they don’t get “in trouble” 13. Mission creep (the gradual shifting of law enforcement priorities/manpower away from traffic enforcement to address other needs) 14. Relying on non‐LE personnel, i.e. hospitals not wanting to do blood draws 15. Police say too much work ‐ motivation or lessened work ethic 16. Younger officers might hold similar public perception about the issues 17. Downfall of DUI unit is that officers defer responsibility to the units 18. Lack of experience; officers haven’t been trained 19. Officers live 1‐2 hours out and don’t want to come into court on their day off 20. Inexperienced prosecutors, lack of training 21. Education for Judges to understand the science around DREs 22. Connect training from Academy into field training officer 23. How to utilize state funding to improve Dui processing 24. Fear, have to be hand‐held the first few years 25. Scheduling – offices aren’t often out when the drunks are 26. Officer fatigue 27. Legislative support (ex: can’t do a blood draw) 28. Lack of consistent data in order to get legislative support 29. Lack of impairing thresholds for other drugs (defining impairment that works with prosecution) 30. Streamlining reports 31. DWI is a violent crime but seen as a traffic offense 32. Have to understand the entire system to know how we can be successful in our silo 33. Unfunded mandates from legislature; have to rob Peter to pay Paul to satisfy their agenda 34. Unintended consequences of well‐intended legislation
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