Still No Feds
Still no feds in Berkeley County, but there should be.
So, what happens when a law enforcement agency with serious flaws appears to threaten an innocent citizen in an attempt to impede the reporting of negative information and demand previously published negative information be deleted? A bunch more people get pissed off and start talking. And they talk to us. That’s what happens when a law enforcement agency thinks they are above the law. This afternoon we were provided with two additional examples of problems within the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department.
The first example involves an unknown amount of money allegedly missing from the “buy” money used by the narcotics unit to make undercover purchases of drugs. Bad book keeping or outright theft? To their credit, once it was discovered money was missing an investigation was started and deputies were ordered to take polygraph tests. The guilty party was ultimately unidentified. We are not sure at this point whether he/she came forward and confessed or if a polygraph pointed to them. It doesn’t really matter. The thief was allowed to resign from the department. Allowing a law enforcement officer who has done something wrong to resign and not exposing the crime committed to the media and public allows the officer to take another LE job elsewhere in South Carolina. But, hey, with what BCSO pays who can blame the deputy for trying to supplement his salary?
In other news an unnamed lieutenant was supposed to be watching a prisoner at Trident Hospital. That lieutenant fell asleep and the prisoner walked right out of the hospital. We are told nurses had to awaken the lieutenant and point out the fact his prisoner was missing. The prisoner was later found at Charleston Southern University. Hey, he was recaptured. No harm, no foul. Right? Particularly if you can keep from having to tell the media about it. As we have seen, BCSO is extremely adept at keeping the media out of their “private” agency business. Or the media is simply not interested in digging into it.
We know there are some decent, hard working folks at BCSO who are just keeping their heads down and hoping to survive the eventual apocalypse. We feel bad for them. From what we have been told by those in other agencies, having worked at BCSO is like the kiss of death when applying for a job at another law enforcement agency. Even other agencies know the department is riddled with problems from the top down.
Stay tuned. Based on past experience we all know there is more to come.
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Hopefully the innocent citizen has taken it upon themselves to contact the feds…outside of Bubba County!
Hopefully the innocent citizen has taken it upon themselves to contact the feds…outside of Bubba County!
So what’s it going to take to get this agency straightened out? Apparently, no matter what we have done to date it isn’t getting the FEDERAL attention that it should. Should we all gather at the courthouse steps and protest 24/7 until something is brought in to start an investigation? We can peacefully protest. The jail will get full rather quickly if they arrest us. But they surely will get overwhelmed inside with the population explosion and no one to watch over us or feed us properly. If we call and demand they straighten up their act, will we be harrassed like the gentleman whose family has been threatened? I bet we would. I have written every so-called higher up whom I’m aware of. I will keep doing so. Why not? I have nothing else to do. This just makes my blood boil. Although it’s no new news to me. As a former newspaper employee I saw it first hand with problems with the BC Supervisor His Highness Jim Rozier. He was a tyrant who ran my boss into the ground every Monday night, making sure that what he published in that week’s newspaper met his approval. I saw it with BC Sheriff Ray Isgett. Same shit. “Let me see what you’ve written so I can delete what I don’t want published.” Blah blah blah blah.
So what’s it going to take to get this agency straightened out? Apparently, no matter what we have done to date it isn’t getting the FEDERAL attention that it should. Should we all gather at the courthouse steps and protest 24/7 until something is brought in to start an investigation? We can peacefully protest. The jail will get full rather quickly if they arrest us. But they surely will get overwhelmed inside with the population explosion and no one to watch over us or feed us properly. If we call and demand they straighten up their act, will we be harrassed like the gentleman whose family has been threatened? I bet we would. I have written every so-called higher up whom I’m aware of. I will keep doing so. Why not? I have nothing else to do. This just makes my blood boil. Although it’s no new news to me. As a former newspaper employee I saw it first hand with problems with the BC Supervisor His Highness Jim Rozier. He was a tyrant who ran my boss into the ground every Monday night, making sure that what he published in that week’s newspaper met his approval. I saw it with BC Sheriff Ray Isgett. Same shit. “Let me see what you’ve written so I can delete what I don’t want published.” Blah blah blah blah.