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packman

(16,296 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 12:42 PM Dec 2014

The revolving door of cop firing/hiring

We all know that bad politicians get into that revolving door and come out as a lobbyist and military officers get sucked up into corporate offices.

BUT, what about bad cops? Where do they go after being suspended or fired? Well, apparently right back into law enforcement.

From the article about the revolving door of the law enforcement industry:

"From Florida, here's the story of a well-traveled officer who might just be "the most crooked cop in America."

[Major Joseph] Floyd joined the Crestview Police Department in the Florida Panhandle in 2007 after a brief stint with the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office. Unbeknownst to his new colleagues at the time of his hiring, Floyd had a rap sheet that stretched back more than a decade. Over the course of eight years, Floyd was terminated, forced to resign, or quit three police departments while under investigation for insubordination, lying, and falsifying records. Before becoming a cop, Floyd had been arrested for battery, disorderly conduct, and assaulting a law enforcement officer.
The article at Reason details some of Floyd's past misconduct, which includes having subordinates tase unresisting suspects, planting evidence, striking suspects with rifles and referring to female officers as "department whores." Charming. And yet, apparently still employable"

And Crestview is just up the road from where I live - scary.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141115/19131329162/other-government-revolving-door-sheriffs-departments-state-troopers-provide-new-homes-bad-cops.shtml

FOLLOW UP NOTE- Floyd was indicted and convicted of running a criminal enterprise with the Street Unit of the Crestview PD . If you Google his name , the shit he was involved in is unbelievable.

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/local/top-stories-of-2012-scandal-rocked-crestview-police-department-1.70510

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The revolving door of cop firing/hiring (Original Post) packman Dec 2014 OP
If we cared enough to police the police's self-policing... Orsino Dec 2014 #1

Orsino

(37,428 posts)
1. If we cared enough to police the police's self-policing...
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 01:23 PM
Dec 2014

...the door wouldn't revolve. But we don't budget for keeping cops honest.

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