Posted on 04/02/2008 9:46:22 PM PDT by TCats
RALEIGH, N.C. - A probation officer assigned to a teenager charged with killing the University of North Carolina's student body president was handling 127 cases without benefit of training, state corrections officials said Wednesday.
A state investigation into the case also found that Laurence Lovette never met with probation officer Chalita Thomas, while the other defendant in the killing, Demario Atwater, had his probation cases handled by 10 different officers.
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"In the six weeks that followed, authorities in Durham arrested Lovette several times and charged him with nine different crimes, including burglary, car theft, breaking and entering, and resisting arrest.
He was released after each arrest." and;
"This is a dark cloud over our agency," said Robert Lee Guy, director of the state Division of Community Corrections."
You can say that again - louder! True case of criminal incompetence or worse on the part of LE. These two thugs should have been far away, behind bars for life instead of out killing.
Dare we speculate as to the ethnic background of this criminally incompetent "officer?"
Seems just about anything “government” is a “dark cloud” doesn’t it.....and the beat goes on....and we keep paying taxes....it’s time for a “tea party.”
Idiots! And I’ll bet no serious disciplinary action will be taken. He’ll get a little more training, and that will be the end of it.
Oh...and a white officer would be capable of handling 127 cases. Don’t make this something it’s not..it’s bad enough without your racist speculation.
Just plain pathetic.
Once again a woman has died because government isn’t protecting citizens and controlling criminals like it is supposed to.
Soon to be in charge of our health care.
Spot on. That's the standard government employee union response (excuse). FU's like this are never due to incompetence; it's always "lack of training", "understaffing" or "lack of resources."
A bunch of libs and minority affirmative action hires doing their usual quality work.
What's it matter if she only had 10 cases? It stated she wasn't trained anyway. How did she get the job if she wasn't trained and was not qualified?
She was an affirmative action hire and she had a criminal record.
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6042699
According to probation records, the probation officer in charge of Laurence Lovette never met with the teenager.
Officer Chalita Thomas was pulled off the case in early March, due to a drunken-driving charge. Reportedly, she went by Lovette’s mother’s home in Durham once in late February, but he was not there.
Thomas’ record shows eleven criminal charges filed against her in four counties over five years. The charges include carrying a concealed weapon and two DWI’s the latest DWI charge was in Wake County last year. “That’s one of the issues we’re looking into as part of our investigation,” Acree said.
Acree says the Department of Corrections is conducting an extensive investigation of Lovette’s probation and the probation for the other man accused of killing Eve Carson Demario Atwater.
State documents obtained by Eyewitness News show that Lovette’s probation records were updated on the day Lovette was arrested, apparently by Thomas, his probation officer.
State officials say that’s part of their investigation, but they don’t believe it is a coincidence. “After it became known who the suspects in the Eve Carson murder were, and we realized that they were out probationers, the supervisor directed the probation officer to take all the notes she had from her contacts with Lovette and enter those in the computer,” Acree explained.
Some of the late entries, five total, on Lovette’s probation records appear to embellish earlier entries, which violate Division of Community Corrections policies. They require officers to record their notes by the end of the next business day.
How much of the blame, if any, in the Lovette case falls on his probation officer remains to be seen. Acree says, “I think some of this certainly we’re probably going to see falls at the officer level. But there are probably some systemic issues we need to look at here as well.”
Thomas, 26, has been put on desk duty at least until the state’s investigation is complete.
Good questions that really need to be answered. I don't care what color she is either. I do think she should be held accountable & whoever hired her should be also.
this isn’t a black/white issue...to make it a race issue belittles it.
Feel free to answer the question.
I thought so. The question begs an answer.
I believe there are many who are not trained and not qualified..and I don’t believe it’s because of quotas...no.
And what do you base that on?
The second thing would have to be that the second defendant, Atwater, I believe, had TEN DIFFERENT probation officers. Does that mean he was on probation for TEN DIFFERENT CRIMES? If that is the case, not only the director of the probation agency, but the judges who gave this bottom feeding slime probation, ten times, should be seriously considering suicide. It would be a service to mankind. Ineptitude on that scale is the stuff of urban legend.
The same thing you base your first absolutely unsubstantiated racist assertion on...NOTHING.
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