You have a policing problem throughout Lewis County. Here are some examples from recent memory and the news:
An entire shift of Centralia’s police department decided to have their lunch instead of responding to a call. None of them are police officers any more.
Does anyone imagine these four officers reported to work just that day and decided to ignore a call for service for the first time?
Morton’s former Police Chief Roger Morningstar is an accused liar and sexual predator and, as a result, is no longer a police officer.
Your sheriff selectively refuses to enforce laws he doesn’t like. He calls citizens who disagree with him “sheep.” His department’s incompetence led to a known killer walking freely among you today, even when they know who the killer was and how he did it. His department was unable to detect a dead man in a burnt-out car. The salvage truck operator found the body.
Guards at Green Hill are routinely smuggling drugs to the prisoners.
These examples represent the law in Lewis County. None of these people worked in a vacuum. No doubt exists that other officers were perfectly aware of their behaviors and did nothing. Either these other officers were aware and did nothing or they were ignorant of what their colleagues were doing, when they should have known about it as leaders and colleagues. There can be no excuse from those who didn’t get caught. They either knew, or they should have known what their colleagues were doing. That makes these other officers either accomplices or incompetent.
These agencies will be quick to tell you the actions of these few don‘t represent their departments. Ridiculous. They all wear the same uniforms. There’s a price to be paid when you put on a uniform. You become the same as the others who do so. The very word uniform defines it. When you wear a uniform, you are only as good as the worst among those who wear that same uniform. Your police don’t understand this.
Back the blue until it happens to you.
Jesse Ohlson
Carthage, New York
