[Sportcat]

Can you point out everything that went wrong in this story?

http://wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1376977&nav=0RaMH7jg

(Cayce) July 27, 2003 - Cayce police are looking for a prisoner that escaped after a bond hearing Saturday morning.

Early Saturday morning William Jenkins found himself in trouble with Cayce police. He was arrested for burglary and brought to the city jail where he waited for a bond hearing.

After the hearing was over, police say an officer started moving Jenkins and the other prisoners down a hallway and back to the jail.

The officer became distracted when two of the prisoners, who did not speak English well, began to go out the wrong door. The officer began to try to explain to the other two prisoners that they needed to follow her.

Meanwhile, with the officer gone, police say Jenkins opened a window in the courtroom and escaped. Now he is a wanted man.

Lt Frank Ballentine says people need to keep their eyes out for Jenkins, "I believe Mr. Jenkins is a threat. He is armed."

[Mark Tyson]

Armed with what I might ask?

[Standing Wolf]

Armed with what I might ask?

More intelligence and audacity than a certain law enforcement officer, for starters.

[cool45auto]

More intelligence and audacity than a certain law enforcement officer, for starters.

How very true.

[Arkady]

Please tell me that officer gets fired. Along with every other officer who was involved. Each and every one.

A SINGLE officer was LEADING (unshackled?) prisoners down a hallway? Why wasn't there someone at the back of the line? An officer taking their eyes off of a prisoner standing next to an unlocked door? Brilliant.

[El Rojo]

Monday morning quarterback with no law enforcement experience fire away! Show no mercy!

[4v50 Gary]

Beach time!:(

[Abenaki]

This is nothing!

A few years ago. We had a really nasty type of guy, with a rap sheet that was about 5 feet long, in our jail. He was being held for trying to kill some one. They let him out of the jail unsuperviced to wack some weeds around the building. No one missed him for 3 Days!!!!!!!!!!

Abenaki

[LawDog]

What went wrong?

Well, we can start with budget/manpower constraints which left one officer transporting/overseeing a minimum of three inmates. Not mention the apparent budgetary problems re: training in inmate transport.

Budget for enough personnel/training lays at the feet of the County Commisioners and/or county taxpayers.

Followed up by an apparent atmosphere in which one officer leading (leading??) multiple inmates through courthouse hall seems to a common-enough occurance that nobody saw fit to correct this officer.

This is a training issue.

We can factor in a litigation-influenced mindset which caused the officer to attempt to reason with her straying inmates instead of snatching ahold of them and physically stuffing their butts back into line.

This problem goes straight back to society and its love of lawsuits.

That about what you were looking for?

LawDog

[blades67]

I think LawDog nailed that one.

[gunsmith]

and didn't brutalize the con's walking out the in door?
why weren't the prisoners holding hands! thats what
we should be asking!:rolleyes:

[seeker_two]

Lawdog got it in one...:cool:

[Sportcat]

By no means am I saying that the officer alone is responsibile. As stated by others... there are mistakes on mulitple levels, and multiple persons on this one.

[Kharn]

I hope that courthouse invests in a few sets of long chain and ankle cuffs. Whole chaingangs usually dont disappear. :rolleyes:

Kharn