The Pros And Cons Of Off Duty Jobs

Some people think that off-duty jobs that officers take hazes the line between private and public policing, raising questions about accountability, officer decision-making, police/community relationships, (Stoughton 2016). together off-duty jobs add up to over 143,000 full-time sworn officers, that is about a fifth of all state and local officers in the U.S. and about 80% of law enforcement agencies allow officers to engage off-duty jobs, with tens of thousands of officers racking up millions of hours of off-duty (Stoughton 2016).
As this article points out officers provide many services while working off-duty jobs, directing traffic for church's parking lots to crowded nightclubs or road construction projects, uniformed off-duty police officers