Sherrif Clarke

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

How was he supposed to know?  He was being SUED, fer chrissakes. Please outline for me the conditions under which you would be sued and not know about it. FWIW, I've been sued more than once, and it's a pretty hard thing not to notice.

It was his fucking job to know what was going on.  We aren't taking about a single incident, but a pattern of abuse and neglect that went on for years. ON HIS WATCH.

Boru

Being sued doesn't indicate guilt, responsibility, or anything else.  You go to a trial and evidence is presented.  Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.  What I'm looking for is at what point did he personally have all the said evidence to process?  Was it during the court hearing?  Was it after he even had a chance to act on it?  Again, I'm not saying you're wrong.  I'm saying "I" can't conclude he's a monster because I don't know enough details.  Also, was he sued directly?  Like he was ruled against, and he had to fork out the cash?  I understand he was "in charge", which often defaults the responsibility to the supervisor, but that doesn't always mean it was directly their fault, just that they must assume fault for their employee.

I have to ask - are you legitimately stupid or are you being deliberately obtuse? 

He's in charge of the jail.  One female inmate is raped multiple times.  She sues and is awarded $6.7 million by the court.  Between the time the lawsuit was filed and the time Clarke resigned, there were multiple incidences of abuse and neglect at the jail, which he did nothing to stop.  This isn't a case of a 'few bad apples', it's a case of a horrific culture that the guy in charge did nothing to prevent. I'll try another analogy, maybe that'll sink in.

Suppose you run a daycare centre - 5 adults caring for 50 kids.  One of your staff beats a child in your care so badly that they child has to be hospitalized.  The parents sue your business.  While the case is winding its way through the courts, you are made aware of children at the centre not being properly fed, or given their meds, and in some cases going home with bruises.  You continue to run your centre the same way, with the same staff, with no increased training or oversight, with no changes in policy.  This would make you a horrible, horrible person.

The is precisely the case with Clarke.  He failed to fix problems he knew existed.

Boru