The Sheriff, by and through his image maker, says they're waiting on a third party that they won't identify to produce information that they won't describe with any specificity.
This all makes more of a difference if the "third party" is also working on the taxpayer dime and more so still, if the third party happens to be working for the leadership of the APS and therefore an interest in delaying the production of what ever it is they won't produce. What could they be waiting on at this point, that is of so great a consequence and can't be proved in any other way, that they can just get on with it?
The people have a right to know how their trust and treasure are being spent.
Perhaps the delay can be justified ethically. The truth I suspect, is that if it is legitimate by any standard, it is legitimate only under the law; the standards of conduct that all higher standards are higher than. If it's "legal" it's alright.
Whether the people are getting jerked around by the Sheriff or by the third party is important information in election season.
I'm little surprise that nobody else seems to care that we can't seem to get the truth out of anybody about felony criminal misconduct involving senior APS administrators.
There is really only one really to hide the truth unethically
and that is to escape the consequences of the truth becoming known.
While it may be human nature to try to escape consequences;
it is not acceptable conduct in politics and public service.
The root cause of incompetence and corruption in politics and public service is our abject inability to attach swift and certain unacceptable consequences to every instance of public incompetence and corruption.
If there was no chance of them getting away with it,
if they were punished for engaging in it, politicians and
public servants would stop behaving corruptly.
How much simpler can it get?
photo Mark Bralley
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