Brickbat: Hide and Seek Champion

In Clayton County, Georgia, the sheriff's office placed the jail on lockdown when deputies couldn't find convicted murderer Julian Brooks Deloach. The next morning, officials found he had been accidentally left overnight in a courthouse holding cell due to a miscommunication between officers. Sheriff Levon Allen explained that the mistake happened because of confusion over who was supposed to transport Deloach back to the jail, and since the courthouse is connected to the jail, he was never at risk of escaping. Allen has proposed two sergeants be demoted and two deputies be suspended. This incident is one of several recent issues at the jail, including another case where a convicted killer was mistakenly released.
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Allen has proposed two sergeants be demoted and two deputies be suspended.
I hope the sheriff's proposal reaches whoever is in charge.
The murderer is not to leave the courthouse until you suspend the deputies and demote the sergeants. Got it.
Without knowing the races of all involved I don't know how to feel. If the released killer is Black, did they release the killer to reduce the "systemic racism" evident in the crime stats making it a good thing to progs?
Incompetence is the order of the day. IT's what you learn in school.
I teach college and most kids learn that only a few very few things are worth doing well. When I was a kid at the local Catholic grammar school I remember two things on the report cards
USES TIME WELL
WORKS TO ABILITY
I was always praised in both categories and it stuck with me my whole life. But now a college kid decides whether the course he signed up for is really worth even paying attention. Any teachers here to corroborate.
Waitaminit! The idea here is that The Political State is not only fallible, but should be liable for restitution to make whole again the victims of its harm--only using money extorted from other victims.
Okay... never mind...
Reminds one of Tommy Smothers playing hide-and-seek... "But I was IT for three months!"