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The ‘Office Shuffle’: Ohio Police Recycle Bad Apples Among Rural Departments
Loaded on April 19, 2018
by Matthew Clarke
published in Criminal Legal News
May, 2018, page 34
Filed under:
Police Misconduct.
Location:
Ohio.
by Matt Clarke
An Ohio police officer who resigns under a cloud of pending disciplinary action or who is fired may not have reached the end of a law enforcement career. In some Ohio towns, employment as a police officer in another department is just down the road.
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