And once in a while, the same thing happens to bad cops, too. But I have yet to see it happen to a *judge* who deserved it.

But good people don’t thrive in systems with bad incentives. You either attract bad actors, turn good actors into bad ones, or the good actors drop out, leaving you only with the bad ones.

THIS – it says so succinctly what I’ve tried to tell people for a long time. No insidious plan is required, no conspiracy… just set up a system with bad incentives, and over time, the incentives WILL be followed!

Durham County District Attorney Tracey Cline filed a notice of appeal Friday after a Superior Court judge ordered her to be removed from office for her inflammatory public criticisms of another judge in recent months.
Cline’s top assistant prosecutor, Jim Dornfried, has filed to run against Hudson, which could potentially set up another battle.
Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez, who testified on Cline’s behalf, did not have a comment about her removal. However, a Durham police spokeswoman said the department will continue to work with the DA’s office “as they have been during this time.”

Isn’t this the same argument that von Hayek made in “The Road to Serfdom” chapter, “Why the worst get on top?”

Currently they are showing a Leon Stanback as DA. Let’s see how Leon fares.

This woman has no conscience, no morals and no compassion. A fitting successor to Mike Nifong.

It should be required reading for all cops and prosecutors… oh, wait… only if cops war smart enough to read and comprehend it…

The writings cover more than 600 pages and would reveal deep anger – directed toward a judge.”

This just about wraps up my diagnose that “The Bioch is crazy”.

The above is the best description I have ever seen as to what has happened to Law Enforcement/ the IRS/ the CIA/ etc.

Nobody with a shred of talent or human decency would stay at those places. The only people who stay are life’s losers, the dregs of humanity with no hope for better employement. So the dregs of our society have been given guns, badges, authority to kill and immunity when they do.

Protect & Serve (Themselves!) makes more sense now, doesn’t it?

Reminds me of the famous quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

“Men, in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good.”

I’d like a citation for that, especially since “public choice theory” sounds like a high-falutin’ label to stick onto an aphorism that is so obvious it makes your eyeballs bleed.

Hits the nail on the head. I’ve long thought this and this is the first time I’ve seen it articulated so succinctly. Conservatives _worship_ the law enforcement community.

*ANY* .gov employee is > serf, as evidenced by mountains of preferential treatment (“professional courtesy”). The latest one being that New Orleans story about the parking tickets being dismissed because the “rules were unclear”.

This is all morally wrong.