A police officer in Davie, Fla. has been on paid leave for seven years. [Sun-Sentinel]
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In fairness, the cop went to federal court, and got a ruling in his favor. Its not like its a union rule interfering, or a crazy arbiter… He managed to convince a federal judge. While I’m quick to agree that similar cases are crazy and that the people involved were rightly fired, I think this is an exception. Instead this is an honest guy getting vindicated. (or at least that is my take from the article, who knows if it is a fair account of what actually happened)
You may be right that this one doesn’t fit the mold of some earlier cases related in this space. Wherever the fault or faults ultimately are found to lie, however, the overall result does seem an indication that the results of the system governing municipal personnel decisions are somewhat crazy from the taxpayers’ point of view.
I live in South Florida and heard about this on the local radio. This guy is the luckiest guy in the world. It seems he was stuck in a strange loophole.
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