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Dallas News: Keystone Kops don't need SWAT teams

Over the holidays, I'd missed a notable Dallas News editorial published Christmas Day criticizing Metroplex-area constables for wasting resources on redundant, unnecessary and inadequate SWAT teams instead of focusing on their core duties. Opined the News:: Those who would compare our local "constables gone wild" with the Keystone Kops risk the grave disservice of insulting real Keystone Kops everywhere. Danny Defenbaugh, the former FBI agent conducting a civil investigation into Precinct 1 Constable Derick Evans and Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes, has filed complaints with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel that they violated federal campaign laws. Specifically, employees say the two constables threatened and intimidated them into working on their re-election campaigns...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).