by CalWatchdog Staff | June 24, 2011 8:49 am
Steven Greenhut: Increasingly, we have become a two-tier society where those who enforce the laws are held to a much lower standard than the rest of us, which is the marking of an authoritarian society rather than a democratic one. I’ve seen it so many times in my years writing about government, as average Joes have the book thrown at them for nothing and dirty cops get every privilege and benefit of the doubt. The latest example comes from Anaheim and involves an ex-cop from Huntington Park.
Per the Orange County Register:
A retired Huntington Park police chief received “no favorable treatment” from city attorneys who dismissed indecent-exposure charges against him under a plea deal that kept him off sex-offender registries, a city spokeswoman said Thursday. Paul Lawrence Wadley, 56, had faced more than a dozen charges in connection with lewd photographs and public nudity. Instead, he pleaded guilty this week to two misdemeanor counts of loitering and one count of vehicle tampering.
Wadley, despite being a degenerate and a danger to the community, gets off with nothing. We wouldn’t want a fellow member of the Brotherhood to have to be on sex-offender registry, huh? I remember covering an outrageous case in Orange County, where the DA found that deputies had lied, destroyed evidence and internal investigators had coached witnesses to help protect fellow deputies accused of involvement in a brutal jail beating death. Despite the facts, no charges were filed. They rarely if ever are filed against cops and deputies who break the law or abuse their power. Even when an officer is caught on tape shooting to death someone in the back, he gets the lightest possible sentence and a wrist slap.
Police always whine about the liberal courts letting criminals off the hook. But this is most evident within their own ranks as unions and the gang mentality protect the worst actors within police departments or retirees from those departments. Even pervert ex-cops get a pass.
JUNE 24
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