Snohomish County Sheriff Reviews

Salary is low as compared to other places

I moved from another state to work at the jail. I was out literally thousands of dollars to take this job. How long did it last? Not even two weeks. The second day of my second week I had a rare medication interaction. My high blood pressure medication interacted with my clonidine, a drug that decreases sweating. I nearly passed out on the floor in the jail, surrounded by inmates. I asked to be sent home because both drugs would be effective all day. After a harrowing drive home they called me to tell me to not bother coming back. Not a single problem had been brought up before that time. I was not as upset as I should have been. Because the night before I had watched as NINE deputies had beaten an 18 year old kid into submission because he refused to sit because he wanted to stand. I then watched them strap him into a restraint chair and state they were going to leave him in that chair all night long. My main field is actually psychiatric. I know for a fact that you cannot restrain someone that long BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL. Working in the psychiatric field you actually restrain people on a regular basis. You can only restrain someone LEGALLY for such a short period of time that it is counted in minutes, not hours. But who holds the cops on criminal charges when it's THEM breaking the law?!