Shaun KingVerified account

I really just want to know why she plagiarized her application and why that doesn’t seem to be bothering people? If she’s willing to fudge on her own facts, can we trust her with the facts of others lives?

@becton4da2018 - If true, still doesn't affect the job we're hiring her for - Judging a pattern (career) by a single incident is statistically irrational - To give here the same benefit of the doubt that we hope she gives us in case we were wrongly accused https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia …

There are reasons we hold law enforcement to high honesty standards (and act when they don’t): they are empowered with enforcing our criminal laws. If @becton4da2018 had applied to a law enforcement agency and plagiarized her app, they would have passed...

on her application because of “character.” They other dangerous aspect is that the REASON we don’t hire cops who have lied in the past is that (1) they are subject to blackmail, (2) they have shown they don’t have integrity in dealing in gray areas, and ...

(3) a good DA would not charge cases brought by a police officer with a history of dishonesty. See for example the search warrant fiasco in OPD a couple years ago. They cut and past factual statements. All the cases were thrown out and cops were fired. Defense attorneys ...

LOVE dishonest actors in law enforcement agencies and district attorney offices.WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT HER DISHONESTY precisely because DAs offices have so much discretion and requires so much integrity. (See previous CoCo DA.) why I’m Progressive but not @becton4da2018

alternative?

Better candidate next time - make sure our candidates for DA meet the requirements we expect for our law enforcement agents. Just b/c it’s an elected office doesn’t mean you can have lower “character” passage than the people who are sworn officers.