labor firegeezer on 25 Jul 2008 07:35 am
A Lesson To Be Learned
SOMETIMES WE FORGET THAT IN THIS AGE of technology all of our words and deeds just might be recorded.
The Village of Stanford, Illinois budgets for a police chief and two part-time officers who are supplemented by the McLean County Sheriff’s deputies. Back in March, one of the town’s part-time officers - who had 13 yrs. on the job - stopped the Stanford mayor and wrote three traffic violations.
During this dashcam video you will hear the officer ( who is technically a sheriff’s deputy) telephone the police chief and gleefully tell him what’s going on. The chief answers, ”That’s fantastic!”
Well, it’s not so fantastic after all. In mid-May the Village Board put the police chief on administrative leave and suspended the deputy from performing any police work within the village. The remaining part-time officer was let go because there was nobody left to supervise him.
The officer involved with the traffic stop has been demoted to the county dispatch center on June 28. Last week the Board voted unanimously to fire the chief. Now the Village is without a police department and has to start over.
The Bloomington Pantagraph has the complete STORY.
