Would someone on DU please explain to me how

[CC27]

Star Member malaise (128,393 posts)

Would 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??

What does him being wealthy have anything to do with it? 

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026504168

[Mr Mannn]

Hey he bagged his thug limit and is mounting the head in his home.
Buy your license and you can bag a thug too. But no poaching now!

[franksolich]

Can someone on DU explain why the malice primitive, part of the 1% down there in Jamaica, never talks about conditions in her own country?

[franksolich]

Generally, people are aware that Jamaica is rife with poverty, racism, elitism, crime, corruption, and enormous socio-economic disparities between the 1% and the bottom-most 99% down there.

I suspect the malice primitive comments upon our events as a means of avoiding the blunt fact that, as part of the 1% down there, she's part of their problems.

[Gina]

Such arrangements are not unheard of, in Oklahoma or elsewhere. In Michigan, for example, some small town police departments, strapped for cash, have hired volunteer cops to help fight crime. Sometimes the hires pay for their uniform and gun.

"In this state and many others, you have to have a license to practice law, to practice medicine, to cut hair and do nails, yet this subsection of my industry exists almost unchecked," said Dave LaMontaine, president of the Deputy Sheriffs Association of Michigan.

He added, "In some places, it's pay to play."

The hiring of volunteer reserve sheriff's officers dates back to the days of the Wild West, when sheriffs sought help from citizens enforcing the law, experts said.

In the modern versions, reserves must complete some sort of training, depending on the state and agency where they work. In some states, reserves can carry guns, and additional training earns them the ability to work closely with police officers. Certain categories of California deputies can patrol areas on their own, Police Foundation President Jim Bueermann said.

Jonathan Thompson, deputy executive director of the National Sheriffs' Association, said the hiring of reserve officers has increased since 9/11, with fears of terror attacks that could strain local departments. With a generation of baby-boomer officers retiring, there is a large pool of former officers to recruit from, he said.