Worst Applicant Background You've seen hired

[Bearcat06]

This is all rather fascinating, but I can't get over Valor's comment about someone claiming to have had "sexual relations" with a box turtle. Perhaps I have not watched enough (OK, never watched any) porn involving animals, but I am not quite able to wrap my mind around how exactly one could have sexual relations with a box turtle. Maybe I don't really want to know... This is a PG-13 site.

How did I know you were going to be the one thinking about the box turtle....? :D

[electrojuice]

What the heck is a Box Turtle anyway? A euphemism for his girlfriend's...err you know... :rolleyes:

[Starflyer525i]

This is all rather fascinating, but I can't get over Valor's comment about someone claiming to have had "sexual relations" with a box turtle. Perhaps I have not watched enough (OK, never watched any) porn involving animals, but I am not quite able to wrap my mind around how exactly one could have sexual relations with a box turtle. Maybe I don't really want to know... This is a PG-13 site.

I agree, the idea has left me a little "shell-shocked," par say. :D

Seriously though, I am a good honest kid, have read all of the posts about telling the truth, which I believe....But I don't care what kind of freak you are, if you have relations with a turtle, surely you wouldn't tell anyone for any kind of investigation!

I don't understand people...I really don't...

[insanediplomat]

We had a police dispatcher who was hired, she passed the background check. While in the training phase they had to learn to run the criminal check database. They learn by running their own names. Lo and behold, there was a warrant for the dispatcher for PWBC (Passing worthless Bank Checks) issued a few days earlier.

Sucked to be her that day.

Thats a big faw**ng ooops!!! LMAO.

[insanediplomat]

In June of 2000, Derrick Evans, a black man, applied to the Dallas Police Department. He stated on his application that he had never been arrested. He was admitted to the academy. While in the academy the DPD learned that he had been arrested for public intoxication. Lying on an application is grounds for immediate dismissal from the academy, and the academy commanders recommended that he be dismissed. A Hispanic commander under the chief and the black Chief of Police overruled, and Evans was allowed to remain in the academy. He performed poorly in the academy and had to be "recycled" through the academy in order to pass.

As a police recruit, while Evans was still in the academy his name came up as a suspect in a murder investigation (the victim was an acquaintance of the recruit's girlfriend and the recruit was placed in the area having a confrontation with the victim on the night of the murder). Homicide investigators and internal affairs investigators had recruit Evans take a polygraph exam (which is standard procedure for any recruit or officer under investigation) and they questioned him about the murder. To the question "Did you kill Simuel Huey, Jr." the officer answered "No" and his answer was found to be "not truthful". However, there was no physical evidence to charge the recruit with in the murder. Investigators recommended that the recruit be terminated. Chief Bolton's staff of black administrators overruled and the recruit was allowed to remain and graduate from the academy. His failed polygraph was common knowledge in the department, a real morale booster for all of the good officers in the department I'm sure.

In the summer of 2003 officer Evans' stepdaughter came home and said that some kids had beat her up. Rather than call a marked unit to meet him there officer Evans rounded up 15 relatives, armed with baseball bats and screwdrivers, and drove to the scene of the alleged fight. Upon arrival, officer Evans, wearing baggy pants, a muscle shirt and his badge around his neck and walking with his pistol in his hand, confronted the crowd. The situation escalated. Officer Evans claims that a 19 year old pointed a gun at him so he fired at the 19 year old several times, striking him once.

A few days later, the Dallas Morning News learned that in addition to his arrest for being drunk and his failing a polygraph that asked him if he committed murder, officer Evans was twice the subject of an emergency restraining order placed on him by a judge when his ex-wife sought relief from his assaults. He failed to mention this in is application according to police officials, and the Dallas police would have the public believe that they were unable to find out this information that the Dallas Morning News discovered using only public records. When the Dallas Morning News confronted the chief with this info the chief ordered officer Evans into an IA meeting, which lasted 14 hours and cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars in overtime, and fired the officer at 6:30am on Saturday. The chief only fired the officer because the paper threatened to run the story and the chief wanted to fire the officer before the story ran. Dallas police claim that they fired Evans for displaying his weapon in a manner that would alarm the public (not for lying on his application, flunking the academy, being a suspect in a murder investigation or wading into a riot and shooting a teenager).

The Chief of Police at the time, Terrell Bolton, and his staff of commanders were black, as was officer Evans.

I'll let you figure out how the applicant overcame these bad background instances to still got the job.

Ain't affirmative action grand?

If only Texas had the moral character rule spelled out like Florida does, no one would have been able to do anything about hiring this man. If the chief would have hired him, then the chief would have been in violation of state law. Would anyone like to argue the moral character rule being spelled out now?

[insanediplomat]

This is all rather fascinating, but I can't get over Valor's comment about someone claiming to have had "sexual relations" with a box turtle. Perhaps I have not watched enough (OK, never watched any) porn involving animals, but I am not quite able to wrap my mind around how exactly one could have sexual relations with a box turtle. Maybe I don't really want to know... This is a PG-13 site.

Mora, come on, man! How could you not know how to bang a turtle? LMAO. You know, the risk of getting your man cut off by the turtle or even the thrill of catching and unknown disease? C'mon, man, this is what we live for. ROFL.

I'm only kidding, this s**** is off the hook! Who in their right mind does that and then have the audacity to talk about it? What is this world coming to?

[insanediplomat]

What the heck is a Box Turtle anyway? A euphemism for his girlfriend's...err you know... :rolleyes:

I think a box turtle is a scare one that locks up when frightened. Literaly, the thing locks up into a box, hence the name. I may be wrong though, but I truly think those are the box turtles.

[1099hunter]

Just recently had a subject apply stating that he once sold crack. When questioned on the fact he stated that it really wasn't crack he was selling fake crack (beeswax). It's a shame you can't even find an honest criminal. He actually thought he had a chance.

This is a box turtle...........http://tinypic.com/1he2l5

[GoDirectly2Jail]

We routinely have inmates and those that are visiting inmates at the jail to ask how they can get an application. :rolleyes:

[Odin]

If only Texas had the moral character rule spelled out like Florida does, no one would have been able to do anything about hiring this man. If the chief would have hired him, then the chief would have been in violation of state law. Would anyone like to argue the moral character rule being spelled out now?

I don't know about that. If you read the laws in place you will see that discrimination based on race is illegal. Then you have the government using affirmative action to hire officers. Maybe I'm just not getting it, but isn't the very definition of affirmative action "discrimination based on race"?

[insanediplomat]

I don't know about that. If you read the laws in place you will see that discrimination based on race is illegal. Then you have the government using affirmative action to hire officers. Maybe I'm just not getting it, but isn't the very definition of affirmative action "discrimination based on race"?

Race has nothing to do with moral character. Obviously the man had a questionable character. One unsubstain incident may be on thing, but an arrayof things questioning someones character seems clearly to me that such individual indeed has more than a questionable moral character.

[insanediplomat]

Did I just sound like Donal Rumsfeld when he said "we know known things and we know there are known unknowns"? If so, I apologize.

[cjcrew022000]

The story of Ellis "Max" Johnson comes to mind here. Johnson had a very "drug filled " background but still managed to make it into the academy but was terminated when his application leaked to the press. Check this article out for more info

http://www.denver-rmn.com/news/1221cade1.shtml