Sometimes it seems that way about some cops. California 'Detective of the Year' Gregory Beaumarchais charged for sending sexual messages to he thought was a child
A veteran police officer who was named “Detective of the Year” in 2019 was charged with exchanging sexually explicit messages with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl.
Gregory Daniel Beaumarchais, 43, is facing a misdemeanor charge of annoying or molesting a victim believed to be under the age of 18, Orange County District Attorney officials said on Tuesday
While the charge doesn't seem like a lot, I believe that if he's convicted or pleads in the case, he will lose his pension, which as a 43-year-old cop may be a stiff penalty. Then again, California pensions are not in great shape.
If convicted, Beaumarchais faces a maximum sentence of one year in Orange County Jail and would be required to register as a sex offender.
So why is it that cops don't always think the law applies to them?
Why? Because they are encouraged to think that way. To properly do their job, they must assume the role as thug with a militaristic bent. 'It takes a criminal to catch a criminal.'
ReplyDeleteThey are groomed (either at POST, or by their department, or both) to perceive all persons as engaged to some level of criminality.
They are incentivized to continue in that manner. 'Good' officers hesitate to inform on bad actors in their department, they condone, if there be any condemnation, they remain silent. IA, DAs, judges are loathe to prosecute. If they do, they seek the softest, minimal punishment. Every now and then, the most egregious cases are made public to create the perception that PD do police their own, the system does work. Yet those cases come only when the miscreant has not changed their behaviors (after a years long series of violations which had been previously brushed aside with a hand slap.