[Leisler]

"Defense attorney Jim Leitner said investigators were careless when they did not enter the Social Security number. "They also failed to enter the date of birth on Croublet's Texas ID card "The officers that worked this case did nothing to find him," Leitner said. "They just sat on the warrant."

Hey, Police pay comes in every two weeks. What the heck. You think anyone is going to be fired, disciplined, fined for cheating the public out of pay money for services not rendered? Nah, that's for peons.

[Does so]

"...What the heck. You think anyone is going to be fired, disciplined, fined for cheating the public out of pay money for services not rendered...?"

When I first started working for the Sheriff's office, burglary ("house-breaking") was rampant. The media told everyobody to put their SSN on everything not nailed down.

Later we learned that the Social Security Administration would not reveal—even to a police department—the name that went to that number! I'm thinking the rules have been changed due to the WOT: hence the "hit" this year on the old case SSN.