Code Cops, Not Real Cops

After the vote, Taranto, Blackberry and Tom Grover stood in the courthouse lobby talking. They complained that the board had just put the cart before the horse, officially defining the CEU investigator’s duties before officially defining the purpose of the actual unit itself.

“I think they want to keep this unit, but they are not being fully forthcoming as to why they want to keep it,” said Taranto. “And that’s what’s making folks suspicious and untrusting. Because what they’re doing does not comport with what they were created to do. The original authorization of it was to go out and help the community clean up the junk yard — the people with the junk cars, the people that like to pile up their garbage so that the rats can proliferate, and whatever.”

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