Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Horny Law Enforcement Officers of Clackamas County, Oregon

Rick Bella at the Oregonian has a comprehensive and jaw-dropping report on the many law enforcement officers, mostly corrections officers from Clackamas County, Oregon who have been caught in sexual misconduct allegations and scandals dating back over several years. 

Clackamas County, Oregon is where Oregon City is located.  Clackamas is part of the greater-Portland area.  It is named after the indigenous Clackamas Indian tribe. 

This is from Bella's report:

Over the past decade, county corrections deputies have been convicted of sexual and official misconduct, drug abuse and assault, resulting in jail sentences, firings and civil lawsuits against the sheriff's office.  The most recent investigation began in July 2009, when allegations surfaced that Deputy Alan Dean Randol had sexual contact with female inmates on home detention. Randol pleaded guilty in October to sexual misconduct and was sentenced to eight days in jail.

A woman who says Randol fondled her during a home visit subsequently filed a $400,000 lawsuit against Clackamas County. The lawsuit remains pending in Clackamas County Circuit Court.

During the investigation into Randol, Detective Debbie Calhoun discovered similar allegations against Deputy Darin L. Fox, involving female inmates both housed in the jail and under electronic monitoring in their homes. After a grand jury indicted Fox on charges of sexual and official misconduct, Fox voluntarily surrendered at the jail last week. He is scheduled to be arraigned June 10.
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According to a sidebar at the link, 11 corrections and patrol officers have been involved in prohibited if not illegal sexual misconduct, including sexual exploitation of teenagers in the law enforcement cadet program.

The question is why?  Is this an unusual problem in Clackamas County, Oregon only?  Doubtful.  Perhaps what is happening in Clackamas County is structural in onset and astonishing because the current leadership is willing to confront the problem headlong, to their credit.  The real question is, what's happening elsewhere--including in your community, that is not being addressed by law enforcement leadership? 

3 comments:

  1. I was recently in clackamas county and they are very abusive unprofessional just really a sorry county full of hateful deputies only at work to try to hook up with someone honestly they spend more time flirting and trying to get laid then on actual work . I need to file a complaint but can't figure out how they let me basically bleed to death and sleep on concrete for more than 48hrs no blanket nothing but they could all congregate in this little room together to have sex that place needs to be closed down clackamas county jail a joke for the deputies just a playground and I don't understand why no one else has complained about this place before ??? They are abusive they don't do there jobs right they lie you don't get proper medical attention cause nurses are to busy trying to see which deputy there gonna have sex with later . I asked for medical attention it took 9 hours til i bled to death and couldn't breath my BP was higher than a kite but no one paid me no attention .

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  2. You bled to death?! Awesome! You should go on Oprah.

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