Since I don’t have cable, I was unaware that reality TV show LivePD had a contract with Williamson County to be one of the departments featured. (I’ve heard LivePD described as “NFL Red Zone TV for Cops.”) Now comes word that the Williamson County Commissioner’s Court just voted unanimously to terminate the LivePD contract, saying “it did not accurately portray life in the county.”
I imagine that having a complaint filed because Patrol Division Cmdr. Steve Deaton asked underlings to have sex with one of the shows producers might have had something to do with it. (I suppose that this might have just been an attempt at cop humor that fell flat.)
On the one hand, yeah, he shouldn’t have done that. On the other hand, slamming Deaton for personal Facebook posts that mock “The Elf on The Shelf” is a lot closer to PC run amuck, like saying this:
is “an Elf dismembering a black football player at the knees with a chainsaw.” As opposed to an action figure attacking a plastic football player.
You know what law enforcement conduct really infuriates me? Murdering innocent people based on false information from fake informants. Non-PC Facebook posts involving plastic figurines don’t make the list.
And the fact that the original complaint came from those dishonest radicals at the Southern Poverty Law Center makes me even more inclined to cut Deaton some slack, and believe that Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody made the right decision in not taking further action.
(Hat tip: Dwight.)
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