All too often, beaurocrats are mindless monsters, insensate droids which humm on, powered by tax dollars scammed and extorted from the public.
In some cases, beaurocrats try to buck the system, like the County Clerk in that County in New York which was served with a records request by Gannett for the names and addresses of gun owners in that County and he refused to release said information.
SOMEWHERE in the Indiana Division of Natural Resources, there MUST be SOMEBODY with a FUNCTIONING BRAIN!!!
In my experience ,”conservation officers” are real a**holes!
I found them overbearing jerks filled with self-importance and whiners. And THEY have power under Indiana law to go anywhere wild animals go without needing a warrant,i.e. they can come onto your farm without even notifying you to “seed’ a new turkey flock or check for whatever.
Indiana DNR “officers” have charges other people in my area with this keeping wildlife illegally charge,and it has usually been a kind-hearted person rescuing an injured animal.
Oh they also severely punish someone poaching the over-populated deer herd for food;they will take the meat,the freezer,the vehicle it was transported in,and the gun. AND impose huge fines.
I think they would cheerfully hang poachers if only the king would decree it like in the good old days of merry England!
I have NO respect for CO’s.