Emails show former Sheriff David Clarke's tense and protracted process to retain master's degree
From June 15:
By Chris Massie, Nathan McDermott and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN
Updated 5:37 PM ET, Fri June 15, 2018
(CNN) -- Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke has retained his master's degree in security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School after a lengthy revision process to correct multiple instances of plagiarism in his thesis.
The revision process was initiated last year after CNN's KFile reported that sections of the controversial sheriff's 2013 paper, titled "Making U.S. security and privacy rights compatible," were lifted word for word from sources ranging from the ACLU to former President George W. Bush. In all the instances KFile found, Clarke credited sources with a footnote but did not indicate with quotation marks that he was using the language verbatim.
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Internal NPS documents and emails show that frustration began to mount among the parties involved as early as August 2017. ... That month, one school official, whose name is unknown because all school staff members' names were redacted from the documents CNN's KFile received, emailed another to say that Clarke believed he was "unfairly targeted and was never taught properly" how to cite sources. The official further recounted how Clarke had told him in a recent conversation that he did not understand why some of his revisions were inadequate and that the former sheriff said his eyes were "glazing over" at the official's attempt to explain.
In response, the other official appeared to scoff at Clarke's struggles, saying that "he could knock out the necessary revisions in a week of evenings if he stops trying to argue the case and just makes the changes." ... The official added, " (Clarke) has dined out quite a few times on the 'I was never taught this stuff' cant, and I'm about done with it. The implication is that twenty-odd of his classmates somehow received the wisdom through osmosis or implication." ... In December, following a review of another Clarke draft, officials wrote that "many of our comments were simply ignored" and that "some of his fixes are extremely superficial."
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There are many earlier threads at DU about this topic. See:
https://www.google.com/search?q=david+clarke+plagiarism&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com
I was surprised to see that Clarke is now located in Arlington, Virginia:
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exboyfil
(17,865 posts)would love to know he was not taught proper sourcing techniques.
woodsprite
(11,924 posts)There's always Owl: Purdue Online Writing Lab.
That was my go-to source when helping my kids with writing.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)It is funny that they run this writing lab instead of someone like my MS Engineering school Iowa which is better known for writing. My kids did use Owl as well. I always bought the recommended sourcing book for their classes. I have about five different ones from my time in school and my kid's time. It is money well spent. ALA, APA, Turabian (the one I used in high school), etc.
It sure sounds like his "thesis" was a real cut and paste job with no original content. Shame on the Naval Postgraduate School for accepting it to begin with. My friend's son just finished his Masters from there. I bet his thesis was top notch.
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)AZ8theist
(5,493 posts)Sounds like he went to the Kent Hovind School of Mail Order Degrees.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)I mean, it did wonders for Michael Cohen's career, and Cracker Jack box prize Sheriff Clarke seems to be cut from the same cloth.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)by attending Trump University.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)i can't stand him