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Lying, stealing, other misconduct don't prevent police promotions under civil service code

At the Austin Statesman today, Tony Plohetski published a story about the results of arbitration in Austin ("In punishment disputes, police, fire officials fared well," Jan. 17) when police and fire employees are fired or denied promotions under the state civil service code. Combining the two groups, writes Plohetski, "When Austin police officers and firefighters have disputed their punishment and taken their cases to outside arbitration, employees have lost that battle more frequently than not, an American-Statesman review of city records shows."However, looking solely at police officers, "Arbitrators have upheld 10 of the 23 police disciplinary cases that officers have appealed since Acevedo came to Austin in July 2007." So the chief's disciplinary decisions were upheld just 43% of times officers appealed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 17, 2011 (boomark / email).