I went to get a Chester’s Pizza the other day and went to pick it up, and there were a couple of corrections officers there doing the same. So obviously, the discussion about the Butler Tech kid who had formed sexual relationships with inmates at the Butler County jail while working as a 17-year-old intern came up. We were making small talk and discussing pizzas. They were dressed up in the uniform, and one thing led to another, so I had to ask them, “How could a kid like that get along with the inmates? How is that possible?” They answered that there were so many bad things out there that nobody could stop them. “If people want to do something, they’re going to do it.” We all grabbed our pizzas, said our “See ya’ laters,” and continued our day. However, their comment is undoubtedly applicable to many people who look at these public servants; whether it be the police or a superintendent of a government school, we see a massive disconnect between unionized employees of any kind and direct responsibility. And when pressed, all the adults in the room shrug their shoulders and say, “What do you want us to do?” This lack of care for the well-being of children bothers many people. They don’t understand it, especially mothers who instinctively will lay down their very lives for the protection of a child. And a 17-year-old girl under the adult care of a school of any kind is still a child. This media story has caused a lot of people to tell stories about their lives and experiences with the police and what their expectations of law enforcement are. One that struck me over the last several weeks mentioned expertise with law enforcement Explorer posts from many years ago, which gives insight into this massive problem.
When I was a kid, from 13 to around 16, I was in a High Adventure Explorer Post, a coed division of the Boy Scouts of America designed to give the participants lifelong skills in leadership and adventure. I have made great use of it over the years, and it’s a program that should be available to as many kids as possible. The whole thing ended for me when, on a warm Friday night in February, I was scheduled to meet a bunch of kids for a fight in the middle of nowhere. One of them ended up getting killed by gunfire. And my squeaky clean public persona went under serious scrutiny. Just that very day, I gave a speech at GE Aviation in Evendale to future Explorers and was elected Vice President of the Dan Beard Council. After the killing, my time on that board had lasted less than 24 hours, but it was good while it lasted. I loved the Explorer groups, and every year at Camp Friedlander in August, all the area Explorer Posts would get together to compete in a kind of Olympics, and it was always exciting. It allowed us to get to know other kids in other explorer posts and learn what they did. I looked forward to those competitions every year and could tell many stories. However, one thing that I did know was that the members of the Police and Fire Fighting Explorer Posts always had troubled people in them. That fine line between being a personality drawn to power and authority and one that will abuse that relationship with other people was common regarding the kids in those groups.
Before we go down that rabbit hole, though, I can also say I was very active in my church. And I was very close with our local pastor. So much so that I would sleep in his tent when we went on youth camping trips; now, this guy was average in all aspects of life by outward appearance. And he was, of course, smart when it came to scripture. But when I was in a tent with him, he couldn’t stop himself from being nude in front of me—all the time. If I was just a fraction less cynical than I am naturally, I’m sure there would be stories of molestation. But my personality repeals those types of things, and it always has. So there was never any of that. But that Pastor wanted there to be. And that went on until my adult life, as he ended up marrying my wife and me. And his overtly sexual behavior carried on whenever we’d meet. At the church’s Passion plays, he always wanted us to dress authentically like Jesus and the criminals in just a little towel. If the towel fell off, we’d be nude to the audience, but he wanted authenticity. Over the years, I have learned the hard way, between my church and the Explorer Post dealings, that people in power and authority usually have problems with sexual depravity because sex requires a dominator and a domination receiver during the shared experience. So abuses happen often, and this leads to permissive behavior as if they want to yell at the world, “well, you want cops; this is what cops do.” They abuse their authority as studs in the barn. What else would they do?
Well, while we’re telling old stories, I can say that I have personally employed several personalities who went on to be police officers. I know the personality type very well. One couple that I was very good friends with was not shy about being swingers, and they very much wanted to be friends with my wife and me. So much so that I had parties at my house, and they would attend. But in their relationship as a married couple, they were in open marriages. She slept with anybody who wanted to in the Springboro police department. And he moved on from me to become a cop in Hamilton. He was a good-looking young man who was very smart. And brutal. He was an early version of the cage fighters we see in the MMA today. But I liked him, even though I knew he and his wife, and most of the cops in Hamilton and Springboro, as well as Mason, were very sexually active. That guy got himself into a lot of trouble as he and his friends were pulling over carloads of girls and having them perform sexual favors to get out of traffic tickets. He got fired once the story got out because it was too overt for the union to protect him. And when he called me for a job referral from Florida, I couldn’t give him one. My opinion about all this now is that sexual deviancy is so prevalent, especially among authority figures, that people are numb to it. They accept that it happens, so it continues to happen often. And we should expect it to be a problem, not something that should surprise us. This is dangerous because once a society accepts something, it becomes normalized. And that is what has happened to all our government unions who are in power positions over other people. The temptation to abuse that authority is just too great, and their collective bargaining units keep them from ever taking responsibility for bad behavior once they get caught. When the outside world sees this, they get agitated because people generally want justice. They want to trust these people. But I have learned enough over the years to say you can’t trust them. You can expect them to do their job but don’t take your eye off them. The moment you do, they will be trying to climb into the backseat of a car with a 14-year-old girl with ill intentions on their mind. We need cops. We need people in authority positions. But my advice would be to never turn your back on them. And never put a 17-year-old girl in jail as a piece of meat dangled before a bunch of lions. Those correctional officers were well aware of what would happen and created a permissive environment for detriment to occur. And when they were all caught, they looked at you dumbfounded as if to say, “What do you expect us to do?” They generally don’t have it in them to do the right thing. And we should never expect them to do so without careful checks on their power by the media and public, forcing them to live up to a higher standard. They won’t do it on their own.
Rich Hoffman
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