Officer responsible
for dog failed in duties
"A mistake." "A bad accident." So says Sheriff Phillip Morgan of Madison County, Arkansas.
That soon-to-be-retired (with government benefits) man doesn't know what he is talking about or he is simply covering up the devastating, reckless and indifferent action one of his incompetent law officers took that caused the death of another police officer. Now, that man should be dismissed from duty. If he really cared about his partner he would have immediately resigned. He would seek employment in another field with less responsibility that he could handle.
Lina's death was no accident. It was directly caused by the negligent hand of the very person charged with protecting her. She was not a robot. She was not a machine. She had great potential to excel with her talents and potential for positive results with value, i.e., saving lives, literally. If law enforcement had their priorities straight, the possibilities for successful outcomes with Lina's work as an explosives expert, tracking, and search and rescue abilities, she could have been a police officer we all would have been proud of. Instead, her talents were being squandered on the sewage pit known as The War on Drugs. Many in law enforcement hate to see that "war" end because, like most wars are to the Halliburtons of the world, the fiasco drug war is very lucrative to many in the judicial system.
If a hard-working "lower-class" factory worker pulling double shifts to pay their taxes and try to feed their children "accidentally" forgot his child/charge/animal in his hot car, what would [prosecutor] Matt Durrett law do to or for them?
If an exhausted surgeon who had been up all night operating on people, trying to save their very lives because they had suffered some "man-made" or "natural" disaster, if that doctor had "accidentally" nicked an intestine or an artery on the sixth person who subsequently died from an infection or a bleed-out, what does Officer Cornelison think should be the "consequences" or punishment?
Re-education? Extra training?
In this particular case nothing short of resignation is appropriate. I personally believe he should be legally required to never again possess a dog. As a citizen and a taxpayer, I believe he should never even try to get a job in any division of law enforcement. If the man is as talented as his friends suggest, he should have a plethora of job opportunities elsewhere. Second chances to "let another dog die" because of dereliction of duty should not apply here.
Sharon Davison
Fayetteville
This political season, let's make Mars great again
Elon Musk is gearing up for a manned mission to Mars. As he selects his intrepid crew, I think he should consider the world's most fantastic space cadet, Donald J. Trump.
It would be a HUGE, so huge you wouldn't believe, opportunity for science to observe the effects of weightlessness on weightlessness.
Dan Phillips
Centerton
Commentary on 10/14/2016