Here's the story, I work for a property management firm in the loss prevention and safety department. I oversee security and safety threats around apartment complexes. It's an unarmed job (EEEK) but at 20/hr I don't complain much. Until now. I have had several LEO's and a US Marshall tell me that it's dangerous and they wouldn't work there without being armed, and that my team should carry weapons. The policy set by corporate states no weapons of any kind, it's a non-confrontational, hands off job. My conundrum: (and I know someone will say something smarta$$) I carry 99% of the time, the 1% that I don't is when I'm in the shower( smarta$$ comments, here they come...lol).
Anyways, with this policy, and the fact that they want me to start working into the evenings at complexes where in two weeks time there were 2 rapes, 3 agg assaults with guns, and 20 breakins, I decided that I was going to follow the LAW and cc my .45 in my glovebox.
Today, I come in to work, thwart some Hispanic males in a stolen car from stealing another already stolen car, stop an urban fella from casing a new move in, and start my reports. The same LPD officers that were there to investigate the car today came back. I thought we were having a meeting about said incident with my bosses boss. They sit me down and this pencil pushing F&%^, who by the way was a COP FOR 15 YEARS and in this line of work for 20, tells me I'm fired because I keep a legally owned AND registered firearm in my vehicle, and that I also refused to work nights because I couldn't carry. I never told him that I wouldn't work, I merely informed him that myself, my team, and several LEOs, including the cops that were present, told me we should carry.
I then proceeded to tell him of the new Emergency Powers and Parking Lots Act that went into effect July 1st, 2010. He told me it didn't matter because this was private property. I looked at the cops, one of whom was a Lieutenant, and asked him if he knew of the law. He replied " I know a lot of laws."
Long story short, they broke the law, and I'm now a jobless, highly decorated veteran who is going through a divorce and dealing with a house and a kid. And the 1500 is this week, fml.
So I ask you guys: what can I do and who do I talk to about this matter. Thank you for reading through this whole mess. I needed to vent, and any help would be heavily appreciated.
Vic
Anyways, with this policy, and the fact that they want me to start working into the evenings at complexes where in two weeks time there were 2 rapes, 3 agg assaults with guns, and 20 breakins, I decided that I was going to follow the LAW and cc my .45 in my glovebox.
Today, I come in to work, thwart some Hispanic males in a stolen car from stealing another already stolen car, stop an urban fella from casing a new move in, and start my reports. The same LPD officers that were there to investigate the car today came back. I thought we were having a meeting about said incident with my bosses boss. They sit me down and this pencil pushing F&%^, who by the way was a COP FOR 15 YEARS and in this line of work for 20, tells me I'm fired because I keep a legally owned AND registered firearm in my vehicle, and that I also refused to work nights because I couldn't carry. I never told him that I wouldn't work, I merely informed him that myself, my team, and several LEOs, including the cops that were present, told me we should carry.
I then proceeded to tell him of the new Emergency Powers and Parking Lots Act that went into effect July 1st, 2010. He told me it didn't matter because this was private property. I looked at the cops, one of whom was a Lieutenant, and asked him if he knew of the law. He replied " I know a lot of laws."
Long story short, they broke the law, and I'm now a jobless, highly decorated veteran who is going through a divorce and dealing with a house and a kid. And the 1500 is this week, fml.
So I ask you guys: what can I do and who do I talk to about this matter. Thank you for reading through this whole mess. I needed to vent, and any help would be heavily appreciated.
Vic
