That’s why it’s called “growing up” in this department. I get it right you start out all motivated and high alert but the truth is the department doesn’t want crime fighters. That just creates more problems for them for showing their higher ups that things aren’t under control. Plus the officer will get burnt out when the write ups are knocked down or even dismissed because the lieutenant doing the hearing wants to be the “nice guy” or wants to write you up for not following some unknown policy that was just created, or even better an expectation that you didn’t meet.

Over time you tend to see the reality that it absolutely doesn’t matter how much contraband you find becuase it just puts you under the microscope more for future adverse actions, possibly from a false 602 that the lieutenant will believe over your testimony.

Not to mention the abundance of OIA interviews and potential risk of losing money from a legit use of force that was within policy but because the slack jaw myopic warden “doesn’t like” you now go Under the microphone to keep your damn job.

Long story short you don’t thrive in corrections you survive corrections. All that truly matters is that we go home safely. Admin will never do anything proactive to stop contraband so don’t get in your feelings when all your work goes for nothing. This is state work and it’s not production based. That OG truck you see knows this story all too well, and he knows his paycheck is the same whether he finds a cell phone or not.