Ethics

Cops All Week, Inmates on Weekends

By Ed Brayton

This is another appalling but entirely unsurprising story from the world of police corruption. Two cops in Roberta, Georgia are convicted of filling out false police reports and here's what happens:

Roberta Police Chief Jackie Cooper says Capt. Scott Moore and part-time Patrolman Floyd Berger serve time beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday morning until 4 p.m. Sunday evening. When Monday rolls around, Moore returns to work and Berger continues to work several days a week.

Their stay stems from an incident back in January of 2007 where Assistant District Attorney Neil Halvorson says the pair found cocaine on a man, but reported he had possession of marijuana, a lesser charge.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).