Indiana

Frank?s Follies

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

There is another story of another IMPD officer getting in trouble.  This story is on the heals of another IMPD officer who got in trouble and three other IMPD officers who got in trouble.  And they are not to be confused with the former Public Safety Advisor turned Marion County Sheriff employee who is also in trouble. 

While it is important to know that these handful of bad apples are not representative of the other 2,000 or so men and women of law enforcement who go to work everyday to protect us and keep our streets safe, they do give cops a bad name.  Of course it doesn’t help that all this bad news comes at one time. 

While the officers are ultimately responsible for their actions, you can’t ignore another individual who also bears some responsibility for this, Sheriff Frank Anderson.  When Anderson ran IMPD, the department ended its polygraph practices, which some top officials in the department tell me could have been a deterrent to some of this behavior.  Anderson was also in charge when another one of these officers was reportedly kicked out of the Police Academy and rehired under IMPD.  And it was Anderson who hired Jerry McCorry.

It was Anderson’s leadership that set the atomosphere that allowed this type of bahavior to grow and now Mayor Greg Ballard is cleaning up his mess and cleansing the air he left behind.   

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on July 03, 2008 (boomark / email).