Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Perhaps these are connected

From the local paper today:

"Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett ... goes up against one of his detectives who is accusing him of letting "identity politics" fuel the office's staffing shortage." "Hamilton ... says that too great a focus on recruiting women and people of color at the expense of considering as many candidates as possible has made staffing problems worse. ... Barrett ... said initiatives to recruit women and others from diverse racial, professional and socioeconomic backgrounds are a key solution to fix the deputy shortage."

At the bottom of the same page one finds this article: "Former Dane County deputy fired for fabricating attack is charged with misdemeanor": "Sarah Bortz-Rodriguez ... told investigators she’d been suffering from work-related mental health and substance abuse problems for months before the night of Oct. 21, when she said she was attacked at Festge Park near Cross Plains by a masked man with a box cutter, and then fired one shot at him. Instead, a failed search for the man turned up inconsistencies in Bortz-Rodriguez’s story that suggested she had cut her own arms with a box cutter and made up the attack."

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