Posted on 06/29/2005 4:17:57 AM PDT by solitas
(excerpt from full article)
Easton Police Chief John Solomon used two teenage Police Explorers at Joel Barlow High School to uncover drug dealing activity there, and concealed this from their parents, newly released Superior Court documents reveal.
But the covert operation ended when two police officers secretly recorded the chief talking about it and notified the teens' parents, the documents state.
"No one should know. If you are an informant, you wouldn't want anyone to know. I didn't do anything wrong," Solomon said Tuesday.
But Louis Salute, executive of the Yankee Council of the Boy Scouts, which oversees the Explorer Post, said it was definitely wrong.
"Young people are there to learn about police work. They are not supposed to be put in a situation of danger and they are not to be used this way," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at connpost.com ...
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There was a case a couple of years ago where the cops busted a minor for possession and then turned him into an undercover informant without his parents knowledge. I don't think they ever found all the body parts.
After his January 5, 1998 arrest for methamphetamine possession, seventeen-year-old Chad MacDonald from Brea, California agreed to become a police informant. Two months later he was murdered ... Cindy MacDonald, Chad's mother, claims that her son was forced into becoming an informant out of fear of a harsh sentence. Though Cindy MacDonald signed a police waiver allowing Chad to act as an informant, her brother, Chris Saroli, feels the police took advantage of her.Not sure if this is the same one you have in mind.http://www.ndsn.org/marapr98/enforce3.html
Drug and alcohol prohibitions have enough profit potential that they create a violence-prone environment. Other criminal vice does as well.
FYI: Easton & Redding are adjacent towns. Barlow School located in Redding and used/supported/run by both towns. Article does not mention if the students were minors.
Joel Barlow High School's Mission Statement :
We, the community of Joel Barlow High School, believe in a rigorous, dynamic education that respects the diversity of student abilities and interests. Committed to an open and active exchange of ideas, we promote values, knowledge, and skills that foster personal integrity, intellectual curiosity, individual well-being, and civic responsibility.
Guiding Principle
"Education is not the filling of a pail,
The real problem at JBHS is their deeply flawed construction project. Don't know the details but it is expensive and convoluted.
The real problem at JBHS is their deeply flawed construction project. Don't know the details but it is expensive and convoluted.
Huh! Nothing about "clandestine snitching" (i.e. 'narking)?
IMO: his using kids for the detail aside, NOT notifying parents or officials should be supremely punishable. I have no comment on the other two who 'bugged' the locker room - the whistleblowing becomes a grey area since the information was obtained thru the commission of a felony (which it wouldn't have been if they had been ordered by superiors, or police commissioners, to do it)
Ridiculous. You are insinuating that drug dealers are violent criminals and responsible for the minor's death.
IMO: All Students should be encouraged to snitch on dope dealers.
Of course they are ... just as alcohol dealers during Prohibition were violent criminals, whereas now that alcohol is legal it is sold by law-abiding businessmen.
No price is too high to pay to combat the scourge of drugs. </sarcasm>
Look at this article ... http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14860522&BRD=1344&PAG=461&dept_id=433794&rfi=6
This may shed some light onto the subject.
Yeah; it's the 'town rag': one WOULD expect them to take the chief doughnut-muncher's side against the whistleblower. No matter how the evidence was obtained, it shows solomon DID give directions for the parents NOT to be notified. And that's wrong, plain wrong.
Hypothetical: if something HAD happened to the kids as a result of their actions (or yet may happen now that they're known) and nobody had EVER known that they were narking for solomon, would he have come-clean and told everybody everything? Yeah, sure - no civil suit THERE...
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