Saturday, November 15, 2014

Rooting for the home team

You can't say that Tallahassee and its Tallahassee police department does not root for the home team, the Florida State football team. There's the long running rape allegation against the quarterback. And now we have the police changing their decision from a hit-and-run to two traffic tickets: one for an improper left turn and the other for “unknowingly” driving with a suspended license. Even here I find it strange that one can not know that their license has been suspended. And it gets worse.

The case did not show up in the city’s public online database of police calls — a technical error, the police said. The driver, a starting cornerback, was not tested for alcohol nor was he asked if he had been drinking or why he had fled.  The university police also helped in the case; they sent two ranking officers — including the shift commander — to the scene. Yet they wrote no report about their actions that night.

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