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Culver police chief indicted,
After a Culver police officer was indicted and placed on paid administrative leave, the small Jefferson County city is left with no police force.
Culver's only officer, Kecia Powell, 42, was indicted Friday on suspicion of stealing from the city and unlawfully using the city's credit card to pay a personal cell phone bill.
"It makes me angry," Culver resident Mark Newman said Sunday.
Many of the residents I spoke with were very angry about the allegations but also want to hear her side of the story.
"We should know what's going on. We're the people payi... Read more
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Dailyrecord.com - Parsippany,N
17 September 2008
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Cop's lapse in judgment has di
Each profession has its own ethical standards. Often times, they are enforced rigidly and uncompromisingly. For example, a journalist caught knowingly fabricating parts of a story, even a minor part of a story, will be out the door as soon as the act is discovered. There is no middle ground in trying to maintain integrity.
A police sergeant in Rockaway Township pleaded guilty this week to theft and promptly relinquished his job. The theft was not huge. It was $29 worth of breakfast sandwiches from a Quick Chek in Rockaway.
The value of the theft, of course, was not the issue. The issue was that an officer while in uniform walked into a store and left with merchandise without paying for it. The officer, Christopher Stahl, 39, admitted the disorderly persons offense in state Superior Court, Morristown.
Some probably agree with Edward Bilinkis, Stahl's attorney, and think the sentence was "draconian." After all, it's only $29 worth of sandwiches. We do not share that view. We agree with the need to maintain the integrity of the law enforcement community, a sentiment expressed by the Morris County Prosecutor's Office. And we join the prosecutor's office in praising Rockaway Township police for not "looking the other way" when they learned of the theft.
Stahl's plea bargain with the prosecutor's office called for him to give up his job. So he plead guilty with full knowledge of the consequences.
Even those who think the punishment is justified should feel sadness here. Sadness that a veteran police officer -- one who recently graduated from a West Point leadership program -- had a lapse in judgment that so badly derailed his career.
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