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NO jail for police officers Who Pleaded guilty to walking Steroid Ring, promoting pills to different cops


Cops across the country are often caught committing identical crimes that they routinely kidnap and cage people. From stealing from charities to selling drugs they steal from their jobs as cops, many cops have proven to be as bad or worse than the criminals from which they claim to safeguard society. the subsequent instance out of Kentucky of a cop running a steroid ring highlights this hypocrisy quite well and it exposes the sheer lack of accountability they face after they do so.


Scott County Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Baker and Reserve Officer Phillip E. Thomas both pleaded guilty to both using steroids and running a steroid ring during which they sold drugs to their fellow officers. rather than jail, however, they both received but one year of probation. The special treatment given to those cops is disgusting considering they made careers out of ruining people’s lives for the precise same thing.

Last year, Scott County deputy Joe Baker took to Facebook to brag about kidnapping and caging people for possessing cannabis.

He also arrested his own sister for drugs two years ago.

Obviously these arrests particularly hypocritical given the very fact that deputy Baker, himself, was charged with three felonies, including conspiracy to deal steroids, official misconduct, and possession of a needlelikewise because of the misdemeanor charge of possession of a drug.

According to WDRB, Thomas, 32, faced only the misdemeanor charge of possession of a drug. An investigation found that he had illegal steroids and testosterone in his house. Thomas also admitted to injecting the drugs into Baker about 75 times.

Last year, Scott County Sheriff Jerry Goodin asked Indiana State Police to research after receiving a tip that Deputy Joe Baker and Reserve Officer Phil Thomas were involved in handling illegal steroids.

“He immediately stepped into action and contacted us,” ISP Sgt. Carey Huls said. “We worked side by side to create sure everything was above board and done properly. which was one reason Sheriff Goodin contacted our department. He didn’t want anybody thinking they were hiding any information or covering anything up in their department.”

The investigation would discover that Baker and Thomas were, in fact, not only using illegal steroids but running an operation and conspiracy to sell them.

“Officer Baker was a faculty resource officer,” Goodin said. “He had been assigned to at least one of the colleges here within the community, and that I wanted it done before school opened duplicate on Monday.”

In a Facebook post after his arrest, Baker apologized to the community “with humility and shame running down my face” for the crimes he committed. While everyone deserves to be forgiven for his or her mistakes, the hypocrisy of taking people’s freedom for similar acts, while committing those self-same acts, speaks volumes.

Nevertheless, the community rallied around this cop — who betrayed his oath to the constitution and therefore the community he served. People everywhere Facebook and therefore the media bent over backward to point out their support for this officer at the time of his arrest, and now the court has followed suit.

It is important to think any drug should be illegal, including steroids. If people want to require performance-enhancing steroids, who are we to prevent them. But deputy Baker hypocritically kidnapped and caged such a large amount of people for these substances while selling and using them at the identical time, which implies he should most assuredly face accountability. What’s more, although we feel anyone should be able to do any drug they wantit's not in the slightest degree a decent idea to permit people in enforcementmagisterially to use violence against citizens, to use these drugs as they're related to rage.

The dangers of cops taking steroids are obvious because the rage related to their use can become uncontrollable. only too often, we see law enforcement officials immediately escalate situations to violence when de-escalation would are far easier and safer. Steroids may be the rationale.

“I keep seeing all of those cases where the amount of anger and violence shown by officers makes no sense,” says Gregory Gilbertson, a former Atlanta cop who teaches criminal justice within the Seattle area and works as an expert on police standards and practices. “And when things don’t be, they don’t add up for a reason…Maybe steroid rage could be a reason such a lot of law enforcement officials seem so angry and aggressive.”

Cops on the juice feel indestructible as if they need superhuman strength.

Or because the DEA puts it, “The idea of enhanced physical strength and endurance provides one with ‘the invincible mentality’ when performing enforcement duties.”

Starting to add up now?

“Reasonable suspicion should be raised if they shoot somebody or beat the living daylights out of someone,” Dan Handelman, a founding member of Portland Copwatch told Alternet. “In a number of these recent cases, the officers perceived to be pumped up and weren't necessarily working during a calm and grounded manner. We wonder what quantity of this was coming from natural adrenalin and the way much coming from other substances.”

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