High court in Mississippi says state trooper who issued 25 bogus tickets should never have been reinstated with full back pay.
A Mississippi Highway Patrol officer who issued bogus traffic citations to meet his ticket quota was fired on Friday by the state supreme court. All nine justices agreed that the department was right to terminate Sammy William Ray and that the state Court of Appeals was wrong to intervene to give him his job back, with full back pay.
Ray was a six-year veteran trooper in 2009 when a routine audit revealed that he had been responsible for an unusually high number ofvoided traffic tickets. This kicked off an investigation that uncovered the practice of writing “ghost” tickets. That is, Ray would pull over a motorist, and once he had the driver’s personal information, he would add charges to the ticket control sheet that would pad his monthly ticket-writing statistics. Upon learning this, Ray’s troop captain charged him with insubordination and falsification of records — a firing offense. Ray was brought before an internal performance review board, which sustained the charges and recommended his termination. Ray appealed to an employment board.
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Not cops trumping charges! This never happens. Must be the only rouge cop huh local Leos?
ReplyDeleteHe was caught and fired by other cops. No one wants someone like this out there. But let's focus on the less than 1 percent who do wrong instead of the 99 who do it right daily.
ReplyDeleteNo..... They turned his backs on him. And doing so saved their butts. It's better to loose one than all. The 99% continue to Charlie Mike!
DeleteThe guy had to do it to keep his job. We need to get rid of quotas!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteHe was caught and fired by other cops. No one wants someone like this out there. But let's focus on the less than 1 percent who do wrong instead of the 99 who do it right daily.
August 20, 2015 at 2:21 PM
Less than 1%? 99 who do it right every day?
reminds me of the lies you guys kept saying about being no quotas. I guess you can't help it. We all know cops are ALLOWED to lie. Just don't know when to stop.