Back in the days when I worked for the San Bernardino County Sheriff”s Department, I used to say that a prerequisite to being a cop was being a pervert. Now mind you I was Captain Michael O’Rourke’s secretary and had the responsibility to type a lot of the reports that became part of the Victorville Sex Scandal involving current Safety Employee Benefit Association president William “Beef” Abernathy (see Link 1 and Link 2). If you read Link 2, you will see that even back then “cover-up” was the name of the game. But the internet and blogs didn’t exist so it was easier.
Of course, that was during the reign of Floyd Tidwell whose little black book was as infamous as Jean, his main mistress, and now that his poor first wife passed away, his new wife. I will say that Jean was patient. But I digress.
Since Tidwell there was Dick Williams, whom I can say honestly I never heard of philandering (not that that means anything); Gary Penrod, whose philandering will play an integral part in this entry; and current Sheriff Rod Hoops, whose “Captain’s Private Stock” we shall discuss in a later piece. So when you have perverts running a department, it becomes even easier to paint all cops with the same brush.
