How Troubled Officers Move On To Other Police Departments
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Amanda Warren
Activist Post
Just as someone can omit employment incidents during a job interview to gain employment elsewhere, the same can happen with troubled cops who move onto other departments. But the issue goes way beyond that and can include some forms of collusion with those in control of hiring. Apparently, it’s such a widely known occurrence, that those cops are referred to within the profession as “gypsy cops.”
But how can this continue to happen when a questionable officer’s previous indiscretions were widely published and could be found in a simple online search? For instance, the officer I wrote about who bragged “Awesome” after unnecessarily shooting a pet dog to death – he had been previously let go for killing someone and giving false testimony. He has now killed at least one person and two dogs, but is still gainfully employed and defended by the new department that hired him.
A small town in Texas that is chock full of officers with a dark past is shedding light on a much bigger problem…
This news segment about officers in Jonestown, Texas, demonstrates the number of reasons “gypsy cops” are able to move on to other departments.
From KVUE News:
Records show nearly half of the seven-member Jonestown police department had resigned amid controversy or been fired from other departments before getting hired in Jonestown.
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The state relies on a form called the F-5 to track officers and why they leave a department. Those documents generally aren’t available to the public — and are typically only shared among departments.
But the investigation found that nothing prevents a police chief from giving an officer an honorable discharge on the form, even if the officer may have behaved dishonorably. Police chiefs sometimes do that to make a clean break from a troublesome officer.
In some situations, I think maybe they were having a hard time recruiting officers, maybe they were trying to meet diversity goals in a department or jurisdiction and they settle. But when they end up settling, they consistently pay for it.
Here’s one more reason fired officers can easily find work at other departments: “Bros Before Non-LEOS.”
Recent other articles by Amanda Warren
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- Officer Shoots Tied Dog After Playing With It, Lies About Attack
Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2014/05/how-troubled-officers-move-on-to-other.html
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