Half of sheriff’s office indicted on charges, including abuse of a corpse, authorities say

What’s that about abuse of a corpse? Because that sounds like necrophelia, but I’m to scared to read the article and find out it’s necrophelia

Thumb and Thumber

That one dude looks like a chipmunk. Bro’s cheeks are twice the diameter as the top of his head.

Looks like "fat head syndrome" from steroid abuse.

It's steroid abuse, in case anyone wonders why cops all look like that.

I know phrenology is made up nonsense but jfc, those guys make it hard

Fetal alcohol syndrome

They look like D*** Tracy characters.

Kind of exactly how you’d think they’d look.

Bro why you gotta talk shit about thumbs like that?

This is the truest thing I’ve heard all day

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Two thumbs and two big toes

Huh I didn’t know there were different flavours, mine always tastes like my ass

Longest "other call" in history.

Bro wanted a memento an changed his mind in the end.

Nothing more powerful in rural America than a county sheriff who never leaves their home county.

Not living in America, it is amazing to me that a Sheriff doesnt even need previous law enforcement experience or training. They just have to win a popularity contest. That's crazy. I always thought it was far fetched when I was growing up and shows or movies would have corrupt sherrifs of small towns doing dodgy stuff.  But it isnt a crazy plot point. It wouldn't even be strange to hear that it had happened.

I mean... wasnt it one of peoples whole confused insistence with abolishing the police and replacing them with a community elected force during the last protest era, which they had to be constantly reminded > thats just a f****** sheriff and they too are prone to all sorts of shenanigans.

That part of CO has some feral people in it

that made me laugh, it was only half so it could not be.

I was assuming it was Rankin county, MS.

Wow, that is a lot of fetal alcohol syndrome in the mugshots.

I guessed Mississippi at first

Especially some of them seem to be related.

They shut down the whole police department where I was working on a pot farm in rural Oklahoma. The Tryon Police Department. Chief was embezzling. All sorts of crime and corruption. I’m pretty sure the police chief’s wife worked in the town hall/library and was helping with the theft. The nearby Tribal Police had to take over policing the entire area. Edit: I’m at work and just thought about it all. Not long after the police department was shut down, the state authorities in conjunction with Sheriffs, OMMA, and the drug task force illegally raided my next door neighbors and illegally arrested them. The news called them an illegal pot farm, had their pictures on the tv, and since they were Asian and had several people living there even accused them of human trafficking on air. Turns out they were totally legal, licensed, and legally compliant Medical Marijuana Farm and did absolutely nothing wrong. Law enforcement blamed it on a clerical error where they showed up as unlicensed in the computer system. Of course they had already ‘burned all their plants.’ Then while the owner was in jail her greenhouses ‘caught fire.’ I’m literally the person who noticed as I drove by and called 911 so hopefully I don’t dox myself to any locals lol. The woman sued and I heard got a multi million dollar settlement. So the tax payers funded it all and they got rid of the nonwhites. Conservative Values. Edit 2: Lmao just looked up the story and they never even amended their article. They are still acting like they had a major victory where they got ‘$17 million dollars’ of drugs off the street. From a totally legal, inspected, approved, and licensed cannabis farm. No retraction apology or anything. I bet most residents don’t even know their taxes had to pay a lawsuit. I only know because our other neighbor told me word of mouth. https://www.lcnok.com/lincoln-county-news-news-stroud-american-news-tri-county-herald-news-newsletter/grow-house-bust

Best we can do is a hand slap, some paid time off, and maybe a promotion at another office

That is one hell of a sentence, JFC. 

Or, you know, use evidence tape.

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Danny Sanchez the Sheriff in this story, was Police Chief of the Town of Blanca for over a decade prior to the election he won. Blanca is a town of a few hundred, if that, and located in the same county he worked as Sheriff. In this case, he had law enforcement experience prior to being elected as Sheriff

Theres some issues here. First and foremost, there are 47 states with sheriffs, each with different laws and regulations, and at a glance the majority of those have some sort of law in place mandating a requirement for law enforcement training for the sheriffs. The corruption spawns from having too small of a base making the decisions so you get your haves and have nots and usually the have nots are out numbered, coupled with the usual small town corrupt judge helping out things dont get resolved till it hits a higher level radar. which generates articles like this one and comments like yours. Theres a lot more nuance than "HER DE DUR SHERIFFS DONT REQUIRE TRAINING"

Old timey people grew up on the Andy Griffith show in Mayberry. It is fictional and the further thing from how police function.

Also for those unfamiliar with the area, it's literally Mad Max scrubland with a mix of off the grid enthusiasts, drifters, squatters, religious cults, and old people with limited utilities, poor soil, and no groundwater. Land brokers used to fleece homesteaders with "buy your own 5 acre lot" in magazine ads so the area's like 90% abandoned parcels. I've heard stories of houses getting looted when the owner dies but before anyone reports the body. Can't say the department is without blame here, but I doubt the county has a fraction of the resources to deal with all the nonsense that goes on there.

Having worked in 911 dispatching for police, fire, and EMS. What you described of the size of the force and response time, think about if one of those deputies got into a fight or shooting in the middle of the night, backup is a long long way away.

That’s an excellent point and made me think. Obviously there are state laws for the things they were arrested for- abuse of a corpse, assault, failure to intervene, etc. But the evidence room- if this is a tiny place is there any regulation regarding whether or not you lock the evidence room, ever? Obviously an idiotic practice but they would probably have to fold that into a dereliction of duty charge, right? Interesting to think about all the shit these people could get away with, if there’s “no law about it.” Like hiring your son and all his friends and their spouses, etc.

I have done some work down there where I called the undersheriff for back up (the one indicted for poaching a few years back) and he told me he was the only deputy on the road. There was basically no law enforcement that day.

It's like a vice president as county sheriff is typically an elected official.

Kindalike an undershirt?

and a thin gene pool

The abuse charge was based on not bothering to collect all of the skeletal human remains that were found on someone's property, and then handing the skull to the coroner in a used paper grocery bag without any documentation. The property owner had to go over the sheriff's department's heads to get the rest of the remains collected. Considering that human remains out in the open could be a potential crime scene, it's important to secure the site and collect the remains in a professional manner.

Ironically I think it is usually the coroner.

I get the reference. Is old, but checks out. Such wording was quite popular among assholes and bullies until the Trolls became Patriotic. Everyone wants to go up on Sentinel Hill and get wild, but nobody wants to be treated like they go up on Sentinel Hill and get wild.

This…this is making a disturbing amount of sense to me…

They are ALL bastards

Four, if you bothered to read the entire article.

Looks like 4 were indicted.

4 put of 7, but who bothers to read the article, anyway?

4 of 7.