When police forces are for sale, literally, in Delaware County, New York

I wrote on this blog about the tendency of the upstate New York police force (and prosecutors) to get privatized.

First, Delaware County hired prosecutor Sean Becker while claiming that he will not cost the County taxpayers about anything - because he will be financed out of conviction fines.

Great.

So, Sean Becker will make sure he will drum up convictions, and will have to fabricate charges if there is no basis for such charges - or else he'll starve.

That's what he already did with charges against Alecia Bracci, daughter of the local critic of governmental misconduct Barbara O'Sullivan, bringing the pregnant Alecia all the way to trial before Judge Gumo on fabricated a arrest warrant rubber-stamped by Gumo's court clerk Cathy Fletcher (the warrants were issued at the same time, against Alecia and Barbara, and in Barbara's case it was established by court order that the warrant was fabricated), without disclosing his own conflict of interest that he was part of the law firm where attorney for Alecia Bracci's child worked.

Fortunately, Alecia Bracci was acquitted by jury.

Then, Delaware County Under-Sheriff Craig Dumond offered his private barn to house Delaware County equine police officers - horses for the County's desperately needed horseback police, for "crowd control", where the County's population is dying and leaving in packs, resulting in closure of schools, maternity wards and community pool projects.

Then, Delaware County Deputy Sheriff Demeo brought it canine police officer Neron, renamed Ozzie, claiming that the $7,000 untrained imported pup's upkeep will be financed through "private donations", and Delaware County stalled my FOIL request for the identity of donors who financially support local police.

After the resounding success of police corruption through the Demeo dog, a son-of-a-judge Rich Pagillo got one of his own, went right out to Texas and got a dog for himself, also claiming to the Town of Colchester that the Pagillo dog will be completely supported by "private donations".

Not to fall behind all of these efforts to privatize local law enforcement, the new Delaware County Commissioner of Social Services, as part of her campaign to clamp down on hungry poor people using too much of federal food-stamp money, and after eliminating the services of the private company established by the prior Commissioner William Moon to suck money out of Delaware County budget, proudly claimed that she has a CONTRACT with Delhi Village police for its food stamp fraud investigations.

By the way, the article in Walton Reporter dated April 19, 2016 and claiming that:

was removed from the newspaper's website after I filed a FOIL request with the County about the cases described in the article - response to FOIL is still pending.  I have a copy of the article on file.

So, since Delhi Village Police now has a direct $25-and-hour contract with the Delaware County DSS "for police and security coverage", on top of police officers' salaries that the Village of Delhi pays them, the police for the Village of Delhi will certainly not be investigating Delaware County DSS or any of its officials for any crimes that those officials or employees may have committed.  

After all, one does not bite the hand that feeds one.

Beautiful Catskills.

Beautiful arrangements.