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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWould someone on DU please explain to me how
donating vehicles and cash to a police department allows a 70 plus year old wealthy man to play cop and shoot a citizen dead.
Seriously something is fugging wrong with this Oklahoma story
Who sanctioned this crazy policy??
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Completely insane. should be illegal.
malaise
(269,237 posts)Support the sheriff and be a live militia man with impunity
cali
(114,904 posts)MineralMan
(146,339 posts)This one certainly should not have been doing so.
Becoming a cop through donations makes no sense at all. Giving a wannabe cop a gun also makes no sense.
Someone's job should end. I nominate the guy who hired him and armed him.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)A guy I work with is a volunteer for the sheriff's office and he most certainly does carry a gun, makes arrests, and does everything the full time officers do. He's a former full time LEO and has the same qualifications as the full time deputies.
MineralMan
(146,339 posts)did not have those qualifications. None of the auxiliary cops around here carry firearms.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)The news outlet reported that he's a reserve officer.
http://news.yahoo.com/video-released-showing-killing-black-oklahoma-suspect-202659435.html
MineralMan
(146,339 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)malaise
(269,237 posts)He should be charged.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Open season for all those they hate
marym625
(17,997 posts)And evidently, this is not unusual. Lawrence O'Donnell stated it happens all over the country and many of them have weapons.
brewens
(13,634 posts)out there armed and playing cop. He wouldn't probably be itching to be tazing or shooting someone but you never know. He's always been a wanna be cop and he's a real pain in the ass. He's never made the PD but is some kind of sheriffs auxilliary which is a glorified rent-a-cop thing for that county and he works for a local security company on the side.
One time he came into an after hours training session wearing his security boy costume and we knew he was just trying to impress this HR woman from our HQ. He claimed he had to work a shift at some event after we were done with the training and one of the gals popped off and said it was probably a bachelorette party! That got a good laugh. I would have loved to have challenged him and put $100 bucks on his not being able to show me any kind of proof he had hours with those guys that night. Not a chance.
He tells some people he's a police officer but I know he has never made a single dime as an actual cop on duty.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)You don't have to donate anything to do so other than time, and you have to meet whatever the necessary qualifications are.
2naSalit
(86,875 posts)"volunteer" carrying a gun? A vigilante white supremacist (most likely) who pays to play cop.
That's what many of our previously laws and rules were supposed to prevent. And then again, it is Oklahoma.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)This is his column from today's Pittsburgh Post Gazette
April 14, 2015
By Tony Norman / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In Tulsa, Okla., thousands of dollars in donations to the sheriffs department earned Bob Bates a 73-year-old reserve sheriff a gun, a Taser and actual police powers, minus the burden of having to be competent.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/tony-norman/2015/04/14/Tony-Norman-It-s-crazy-to-let-the-rich-play-at-policing/stories/201504140072