A slap in the face - Anonymous employee Denton County Sheriff Employee Review

The supervisors and upper brass could care less about their officers. They are more concerned on how they look, then how they do their job. In the jail/booking department, they supervisors are out to get any new officers in the position. They training officers will wright bad reviews about the new officer and the sargents and lieutenants will tell you to your face that the review might not be the truth but they have to take their word for it because they have rank. Very unprofessional and just wrong. Women supervisors don't like it when they get a new female officer and will make things hard on them on purpose to try to make them want to quit. Their procedures for the offices are not always the safest or smartest ideas or methods. The people you work with might not back you up and that is very bad. This is a volatile environment and you need people who are able and willing to help you in a situation since you only have your hands to defend yourself. Only the supervisors carry pepper spray, that is stupid because they are not always there when something happens. All officers should be issued pepper spray. Just because you have rank doesn't mean you are given a way to defend yourself. All officers should be supplied with a means to defend themselves. In the lobby there should be 2 officers to a shift not 1, especially on night shift. You need a back up officer with you so you don't have to wait for someone to come up from the back to help you. Also they have pods set up with 30 inmates to 1 officer, that is stupid. They need to have at lest 2 or 3 officers in each pod. 1 officer could easily be attacked or killed before back up reached them. They need to spend more time on quality training and each new officer should go to jail school first not just be stuck in a pod or put into a position and now know what to do or how to defend themselves. New officer could be working with inmates for up to 6 months before receiving any training on how to defend themselves or how to talk and deal with inmates.