A couple of days ago, I noticed on my visitor page that someone from the Newport Beach Police Departments IP address got my this blog by typing in Google:"daily pilot newport beach police morale."
And I didn't think much of it, until seeing this article in the Orange County Register.
Serious morale problems' reported within NBPD
Interesting huh?
I've written about it before (here and here), and in speaking with members of the Newport Beach Police Union, as well as with Retired NBPD personnel, it's no secret that there's a morale problem.
Let's think about this for a moment.
Our Newport Beach City Council recently approved a "Wonderful" raise in pay and benefits for our Police Officers, in the name of keeping our Public Safety priceless in Newport Beach.
But I was told, and shown articles, indicated that we were losing Newport Beach's finest, not to just the higher paying Anaheim and Huntington Beach Police Departments, but we had lost some who went BACK to the Los Angeles Police Department and BACK to work in the Orange County Jails for the Orange County Sheriff's Department...
For less pay.
This is the perfect example in business that just because you pay more, it doesn't mean people will stay, especially if morale sucks.
Money doesn't buy happiness?
And I think someone within the Newport Beach Police Department (at least someone using the NBPD's IP address) knew this type of article was coming.
They just thought the Daily Pilot was going to write about it first.
Update - It appears as though I missed Barbara Venezia's great opinion piece about this exact topic on this from this past Saturday in the Daily Pilot. Must have been confused by the Pilot's new format...
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