Monday, May 19, 2014

"on a case-by-case basis"

Hmm, I had missed this.
The Daily News reported this week that the police log posted on the town website Sunday omitted an arrest the chief wanted to keep secret. Maxine Kinhart, a longtime assistant to the town administrator, had been charged with drunken- and drugged-driving. Asked several days later about the omission, Police Chief Stephen Semerjian admitted he'd kept the arrest out of the public log "to give this woman a day or two to try to get things in order." 
Semerjian conceded this isn't the first time he has kept names and arrests out of the public log, telling Daily News reporter Matt Tota he makes such decisions "on a case-by-case basis." 
That sure makes it sound like in Franklin, it's not what you did that matters, but who you know. If that seems unduly cynical, it's the attitude public officials invite when they do favors for friends and sweep the evidence under the rug.
You can read the full article in the Milford Daily News (subscription maybe required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20140518/OPINION/140516497/2011/OPINION

Franklin Police Station
Franklin Police Station

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