Why no mention of his bac? That's important information the public has a right to know... especially in this situation with him intoxicated while "working."

Bet it wasn't the first time.

Please make an example of him.

Please get quality, professional help and GET SOBER!

In a different online article:

"A legal blood draw was taken around 5:30 p.m., which showed Burney had a blood alcohol concentration of .086, which is above the legal limit, according to the affidavit."

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/12/state-trooper-charged-with-dui-after-arriving-to-work-smelling-of-alcohol-police.html

I’ve seen this movie before when cops are DUI here in PA. The cop will get ARD, and he’ll be “fired” and then reinstated by an “arbitrator” with back pay. There will essentially be no consequences.

and there's always getting hired by small towns to look forward to. our chief got canned by PA for racism and I guess we got a good deal.

Yup. Here’s an example from a town I used to live in: https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/west-lampeter-cop-charged-with-dui-after-crash-found-staggering-next-to-his-vehicle-police/article_7d6d00c4-2ebe-11e4-81fb-0017a43b2370.html

The cop got ARD and is still on the force.

Now I'm waiting for this to get appealed and the US supreme court to conjure up a new thing called "qualified sobriety" that says police are sober all the time, no matter if they are drunk or not.

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Everyone loves unions until they see what unions do.

If you are drunk on the job, as a teacher, you will not get fired - you will get suspensed and sent to rehab.

Why? Because alcoholism is a disease. Why should it be different for any other class of union members?

Yea, damn unions for seeing us as human instead of as tools to be abused by megalithic corporations, damn them to hell.

All he has to do now is move to another part of the state where he can continue being a state trooper like nothing happened, well until he does it again so he has to move again. Talk about job security!

The simple answer is, cops wield tremendous, immediately life-changing or ending power over people in a way that no other profession does. Sure, alcoholism is a disease, and being a police officer who’s an alcoholic is dangerous to the public at large, the alcoholic cop, and also to public perceptions. I’d say a cop caught drunk on the job requires consequences, including but not limited to loss of employment as a cop for several years at least. Not just a slap on the wrist.

That is absolutely not true about a teacher not being fired. I know teachers who have been fired and they were union members.

If you are in a treatment program for alcoholism through the employee assistance program, their are hoops the district must jump through before firing a teacher that has been suspended with pay for drinking. At least in my state.

This guy musta been really drunk to not earn a free Uber home from the arresting officer...

Just a few days ago I reported on another officer who wasn't even that clever. He worked for two depts. in Dauphin Co. at once and submitted timecards for the same hours in both. So while some people get in trouble doing things they should not be doing (or even doing extra work like harassing people, like one that called a coworker asking for him to reveal a source, so he "could show him a good time"), others are getting in trouble for doing too little! Seriously, as a reporter, I work with some truly nice people who are members of the police but lately I am seeing these officers (especially newer hirers) just doing some really dumb stuff! https://dailyvoice.com/pennsylvania/dauphin/news/ex-police-officer-in-two-pa-boroughs-took-98k-stole-guns-from-evidence-locker-authorities/850666/

Good point, and a nice far-out preliminary hearing so he can go enjoy the holiday season.

Rubbish.

A teacher who is drunk on the job will be escorted off campus right then and there. Unless they do a due process challenge to their removal, or resign, unpaid leave is what they face pending school board approval of their firing.

Not hoops. Due process. But the District need not pay the salary while waiting the couple of weeks for the due process to work its way to the logical conclusion. That is how it is in PA, which is what this subreddit is.

This instance is not the first where a recent PSP Academy grad has been bounced for a grotesque error in judgment. Has been going on for a long, long time.

But frankly, were I a PSP trooper assigned to Lewis Run, I'd probably be driven to drink, too.

Consequences are greater for truck drivers, for good reason, they should be in this case too.

He knew enough to refuse the blooddraw?

> Why should it be different for any other class of union members?

Because if a teacher is drunk on the job, they don't have the risk of shooting and killing someone

We all have made our share of mistakes you don't know what happened to him to push him to go have a drink while on duty let's not just throw him out under the bus until we recognize what our officers face on a daily basis and they are also human like us. Our Pennsylvania state troopers are examples of what troopers of other states should model after it's very rare to hear our troopers involved on racial profiling or being bias and every day they're out there going over and beyond the line of duty for us all stop judging them on one incident

You could’ve just said “I’m a badge bunny,” bud.

You can refuse the breath test but they can get a warrant for the blood draw.

You think they would bother to get a warrant against one of their own? Hilarious.

Well I am just shocked. I am sure nothing like this has ever happened before. 🙄

(When I was young, my dad drank a lot with local cops in central PA. One of them crashed his cruiser on the way home. One of the drinking buddies owned a body shop. They fixed up the cruiser overnight, so the cop was never caught.)

Don't need a warrant to remove him from the ranks.

You forgot to include the "/s" Folks now think you are serious.

Megalithic corporations? Large stones?

Surprised the police union didn't find a random motorist to pin this on...saying the cop had beer thrown into his mouth while saving lives

It’s listed in other articles.

This guy is operating on 2 fettermans

For anyone thinking 0.086 is “barely over the limit”, keep in mind that was his limit when he got tested. He had time to sober up between getting caught and getting a blood draw and he STILL failed.

1 fetterman was enough lol