So I went out on the stoop this morning in the drizzle to get the local paper, and of the 5-7 headliners on Page 1, I found this:
Item One: in my own town, a report on the trial of a cop who allegedly hacked into the police computer system to get personal records (exam scores) of fellow officers. Even more disturbing, yesterday's testimony seemed to suggest that a mysterious individual in a trenchcoat, who can't be identified from the surveillance video, was also on station premises at the time of the hacking. (Defense trying to introduce "reasonable doubt" I suppose: but why are unidentifiable persons freely roaming the halls of the station???)
Item Two: two towns over, the selectmen are trying to decide the fate of an officer accused of dealing percocet. He allegedly also would trade drugs for sex: nice for his wife and kids, huh?
Item Three: two towns over in the other direction, an officer is on trial for accelerating (0-60 in something like 11 seconds, in an urbanized area) up into a parked car and killing its occupant. Defense is now alleging some sort of seizure - having given up on the equipment failure defense: "It wasn't my fault; the cruiser was defective." It surely wasn't his fiddling with the Very Large Orange Soda he had just put into the beverage holder that was the issue. (He was pissed off that it was all soda water and no syrup; I am resisting a Chief Wiggum joke here.)
Public trust indeed. Remind me not to call 911.
Posted by otto0114 at March 19, 2008 07:55 PM"No... ummm, this is 9-1-2...."
Posted by: The infamous B at March 25, 2008 12:15 PM