Huh?

While military service gives you points on some apps, it in no way, shape, or form gives you your choice of positions. The LE job market is tough for everyone. Don't be throwing out false hope unless you're in HR for a specific agency, and can say that's how it is for that agency.

With that said jobs open up more on the east and south sides. WILENET along with Wisc.jobs is a good way to track open vacancies. If all else fails, the DOC is hiring as a way to get back until something in LE opens.

Mike,

It's my understanding (at least it was 5 years ago) that in Waukesha Co. there were three conditions to get a sign-off.
1) Have a safe.
2) Have some sort of monitored alarm system (ADT, Brinks, etc.)
3) Allow a walk through inspection of your home or storage location.
I also assume that they run their own background check through the WI DOJ.

Is this still the case or has it ever been this way? I thought that I recalled seeing a post several months ago that stated that the Sheriff was not signing anymore.

I really hope this shit gets fixed, post haste. But I have a bad feeling that no one will touch this with a 10 foot pole.

I'm not a lawyer, but my idea was to use this to our advantage. I.e. "Our machinegun laws havent' been updated since the 70s! We need to change these laws to match current federal laws! It's for the children!"

To add to this, WI DOC and some jailer positions are accessible without a college degree, however all sworn positions in WI require at least 60 college credits. Some agencies will hire you on if you can get your 60 within a certain timeframe (Madison PD comes to mind), but I haven't seen that offered from most departments.

The nuclear power plants up north by Green Bay is nice pay and bennies for security work (if you can get in), and G4S hires out armed transportation officers in Milwaukee to move inmates around.

Regarding LE jobs:

Milwaukee County SO just laid off a LOT of deputies. Looks like everyone with less than 10 years is out. It's ugly over there.

Vet preference points are generally helpful, but I was hired without them. Of course, that was years ago.

Very few places are hiring without 60 college credits under your belt. I know Milwaukee PD will, and so will Madison, but they are the exception, and I strongly suspect you'd have to bring something extra to the table to get selected over everyone else that already has the credits.

A lot of departments––most medium and small departments, for sure––will prefer that you put yourself through the academy before they'll look at you. This shows you're serious, and it saves the employer 13 weeks of wages. Some departments will put the "right person" through the academy, but they're in the minority. Academy tuition is generally about $2,800, plus 13 weeks of your time. You need 60 credits to be accepted into an academy (if an employer isn't sending you).

A small minority of departments are requiring a bachelor's degree.

Good luck!

Thanks for all your responses,
I have an associates degree and am working on my bachelors at the moment, running out of GI bill though. I still have tuition assistance because I opted into the reserves after active duty and i can probably RST out at McCoy. This is still a year out, I am planing a trip up to see family this winter (might even get to see some snow again)

Idealy I would be up in door county by my grandmas far I might just get a summer place up there

StewartCustom, prebans is the resident authority on this (he is, IMHO, the most knowledgable Class 3 SOT around these parts), and he has is absolutely right. MGs are a special class in WI after a decision by BATFU and VanHollen a few years ago that has most MG transfers at a standstill. The trust/corporation route does not exempt a CLEO letter (which is different than the Form1/Form4 signoff to which you're referring) for MGs. There's a thread or two about this here in the HTF (probably archived).