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I feel that my local PD have been given preferential treatment by their own. 7 years is way to long to simply explain away as "professional courtesy". I'm outraged... what is the most effective way to voice my discontent? Why are they only going to deal with him and not the 89 times a fellow officer let him off for having a tag 1-7 years expired?
Can I expect this leniency if I let my tag lapse for 7 years and run across 120+ cops who run my tag? Who can I yell at!! How is this even fair
DeKalb Officer Driving On Expired Tag
DECATUR, Ga. -- Channel 2 Action News has uncovered a DeKalb County police officer who hasn't paid for his car tag in seven years.
We found patrolman Eric Ford driving on a tag that expired in November 2000.
He's had his tag run 127 times by various police agencies including 89 times by his own DeKalb Police Department.
But he's only been given one ticket and thought he'd gotten out of it.
DeKalb County's police chief says there are no excuses.
“This officer for whatever reason seemed to have a deadbeat spirit and at the end of the day the public and rest assure that we are going to deal with him," said Chief Terrell Bolton.
As a result of our investigation DeKalb Police are now running checks on all employee cars; six officers have been caught so far.
I feel that my local PD have been given preferential treatment by their own. 7 years is way to long to simply explain away as "professional courtesy". I'm outraged... what is the most effective way to voice my discontent? Why are they only going to deal with him and not the 89 times a fellow officer let him off for having a tag 1-7 years expired?
Can I expect this leniency if I let my tag lapse for 7 years and run across 120+ cops who run my tag? Who can I yell at!! How is this even fair