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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFired for a felony, again for perjury. Meet the new police chief.
AMSTERDAM, Ohio In the days after they ousted their police chief, the leaders of this town realized that the real mess hed made wasnt the jumble of trash and misplaced evidence that cluttered his office. It was what was buried underneath.
There they found forms featuring the mayors apparently forged signature that David Cimperman used to add more than 30 officers to the towns police roster one for every 16 residents. Many never did any paid police work for the town, logging hours instead for a private security business that state investigators say Cimperman ran on the side. He tried to outfit them with high-end radios. The riot gear and other surplus military equipment he bought with taxpayer money are missing.
What they didnt find was evidence that the police force built out of fear of being without help in an emergency did much actual police work.
Even now, the people who hired Cimperman dont know the depth of what went wrong in the part-time police force of this small town in the hills of northeastern Ohio. The new chief says hes consulted with state criminal investigators to help figure it out.
What they know is that they could have prevented it all with a single phone call. They hired a chief without knowing hed been fired for perjury, quit a job as his bosses started investigating missing police equipment and was charged with a felony for tampering with police radios to make untraceable phone calls.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fired-for-a-felony-again-for-perjury-meet-the-new-police-chief/ar-BBWgqWj?li=BBnb7Kz
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)Bad cops can always find another job in law enforcement, no questions asked
Demovictory9
(32,445 posts)That is. Some story
LiberalFighter
(50,856 posts)But isn't there already?