The Wisconsin Bar Association is extremely reluctant to discipline prosecutors, and disbarment / revocation of law license is in the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which again rarely disciplines prosecutors.

I know. the federalists among us are fighting a rearguard action. .

Turner was a retired officer from the Orlando Police Department and a member of the OPD’s “Reserve Unit” which allows school resource officers to be hired from the ranks of the retired.

Turner had a legal history of a child abuse charge in relation to his own 7 year old son in 1998 and a excessive force charge for tazing someone 5 times in 2015. Turner had retired in 2018.

However, the linked article is only literally half the story. Turned had arrested another 6 year old boy from the same school the same day.

“Charges” against both children were later dropped and school records expunged.

Turner’s report of the incident with the young girl said the assistant principal had asked the girl be arrested and she would testify in court against the child. The woman later denied saying that and claimed the report was “inaccurate.”

The OPD policy at the time was that an arrest of a child under the age of 12 must have the approval of a watch commander. Turner did not seek nor obtain that approval. It is for that infraction that Turner was fired.

The policy has since been changed that before arresting a child under 12, the officer must obtain permission from one of four deputy chiefs in the department.

Child abuse.

As you would expect, the most prevalent lesson it taught students was the benefits of some minor fraud in the name of skirting overbearing regulations. I (and most other athletes) got our coaches to sign off on “community service hours” for “helping” with the portions of games/meets/events we weren’t actively participating in.