Bureaucracies Always Look After Themselves First

If they get around to doing the job they were set up to perform, well you should feel lucky. Whistleblower says DOCCS deliberately botched sex offender cases

Don't want to make the agency look bad! It might impact our careers and our budget! But you're worried about putting sex-offenders back on the street, you say? You are worried about the wrong thing.

Cases were purposely botched — including instances in which convicted pedophiles were released from supervision, despite red flags, to get arrested for new sex crimes — and colleagues were promoted for looking the other way and dropping cases, she claimed.

Supervisors even discouraged her from reporting signs of abuse — all in desperate attempt to make the state’s sex offender supervision program look successful, Flynn said.

Because nothing is more important than making the bosses and the politicians look good. Not even public safety.