OFFENSE

EMPLOYER’S PENALTY

RESULT ON APPEAL

DESCRIPTION

CASE NAME

Conduct Unbecoming, On Duty

3-Day Suspension

3-Day Suspension

Sergeant with 17 years of seniority organized a betting pool on the number of homicides that would occur in the city in one year, and called it the “Homeycide Pool” and not the “Homicide Pool.” Arbitrator was concerned about racial implications of the name of the pool.

City of Cleveland, LAIG 6835 (Griffin, 2009).

Dishonesty

Termination

Termination

Officer was untruthful in his description of his off-duty encounter with the father of his stepchild. Arbitrator quoted rule that “you lie, you die.”

City of Pharr, TX, 127 LA 1025 (Jennings, 2010).

Insubordination

1-Day Suspension

1-Day Suspension

Prosecutor assigned to juvenile court spent time sending text messages during court appearances. Given oral warning previously issued to prosecutor, her activities amounted to insubordination.

Wayne County, MI, 127 LA 874 (Daniel, 2010).