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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blitzfike" data-source="post: 2290802" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>My FTO never wore a seatbelt, as did most of the deputies in the department at that time. The rationale was the inability to quickly draw their weapon if attacked while in the vehicle. My view was that I was much more likely to be in a traffic accident than a gunfight while in the cruiser. I wore my seatbelt. We had to push for new tires and other maintenance that was costly, but if a vehicle was unsafe, we marked it as down and used one of the spares or another deputies vehicle. At different times when the money had been spent, we went on limited expense status and even cut down on patrol milage when we had to. I feel for any LEO who has to make do with equipment that is unsafe. The pay for what we did wasn't nearly enough, but most of us were doing what we were to make the county a better place. We worked for John and Jane Q Citizen.</p></blockquote><p></p>