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From the Files of “Stuff You Can’t Make Up”
Thursday, September 29th, 2011So a couple weeks ago I noted that seven police officers in Houston had been lightly disciplined for covering up for a fellow officer when he crashed into a school bus with a DWI over twice the legal limit, including covering up the empties on the off-duty cop’s floorboard. The cop himself was fired. But the cops who covered up for him got off with some light discipline. They remain on the force.
And then there’s this:
Assistant Chief Daniel Perales was the highest ranking in the group.
HPD Chief McClelland told Perales, “You failed to ensure that a comprehensive and timely investigation was conducted into the allegations that alcohol may have been a factor in Sgt. Trejo’s accident.”
Just two weeks after being disciplined for not properly investigating that DWI accident, we’ve learned Chief Perales is getting a new job. He’ll now be in charge of traffic enforcement for HPD and the DWI task force.
Well sure. He complimented him on properly protecting a fellow cop from harm, then promoted him.
Isn’t that what Police Leadership is all about?
See? You can make up a lot, but not the shit that cops do IRL.
On the bright side, at least the DWI officer was fired. That’s more discipline than I would’ve expected.
WTF?
Oh, the surprise!
I would never have believed that such a thing would happen.
I mean, we just know that the HPD would never tolerate a slacker or someone who plays favorites.
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ps: This website needs a sarcasm font.
What’s wrong with “slacker” cops? Prof. Walter Block had a great take on “cooping” cops in “Defending the Undefendable.”
Don’t assume this was a promotion. In many departments traffic enforcement is the worst possible assignment. Many cops consider it beneath their dignity.
OTOH, some cops have no dignity to be beneath.
DWI Taskforce = suggesting good DUI checkpoint locations. I wonder what accomplishments the other taskforce members have under their belts.
@9 DH: I don’t know, but the cop in charge of vice always seems to have a smile on his face and the drug enforcement Czar always seems to have Doritos breath.
(OT: Did anyone notice the inventor of Doritos died last week at the age of 97? Bongs on my campus have been burbling at half-mast ever since)
Google for “Houston DWI Taskforce.”
http://www.dui.com/dui-library/texas/news/worst-cop-best-paid
http://stoptexasdrunkdriving.com/2011/03/the-houston-police-anti-dwi-task-force-and-madd-working-together/
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100108-dwi-lawyer-billoard
http://www.houstondwilawblog.com/tags/dwi-arrests/
Is there any professional group left that has ethics and integrity?
Doritos (the nacho cheese variety, anyway) got ruined in the late ’80s / early ’90s when the company made them “nacho cheesier”, and then got even worse several years ago when they made them spicier for some reason.
/turning into an old fart
I thought that was the marine unit.
This seems like the right place to link this: http://www.cracked.com/blog/dick-whiskey-drunk-cop-comic/
Government: where failure is its own reward.
DWI and traffic is one the worst jobs for cops. You actually have to produce numbers, since DWI and traffic is a revenue stream for most departments.
So you have to deal with MADD, who is constantly screaming for more DWI arrests, even though there are fewer drunks on the road.
You have to deal with cops who bust innocent drivers for DWI to make their numbers, and you are just waiting for one of those cops to arrest someone with political or financial juice to make your life miserable.
You have cops beating down your door to score DWI overtime, and its always the cops who just bought a boat or are going through a divorce, so they really need the money.
You have the federal govt handing you gobs of money for overtime DWI wolf packs, and all federal paperwork is a bitch.
One of your major responsibilities: whenever a fellow cop has a traffic accident, you have to make sure the report exonerates the cops and blames someone else, even if its a single car accident or the cop was DWI and hits a school bus.
Well, since Perales has experience falsifying reports, he is just the man for the job.