Keep Bailing

Mendez was once a Long Beach Police officer and now finds himself in jail. Orange County District Attorney’s office gave a statement according to the Orange County Register that the problem started in October when Mendez saw his ex-girlfriend and two other girls driving around at 3:30 in the morning. He pulled a gun on them, ordered them to pull over, fired shots in the air, yanked the ex-girlfriend out of the car, continued to fire shots in the air, and beat up on the ex-girlfriend. Meanwhile, the other girls ran for their life and called 911.

Mendez got 6 months in jail, 3 years probation and a 52 week treatment program. And, of course, now he’s lost his job.

Sometimes it seems like there’s a fine line between breaking the law and enforcing the law and sometimes it seems that the same type of people can be found on either side. Granted, you’ll find most stay to their side, but you regularly find the gang member turn’s good cop and visa versa. I wonder if you checked the Orange County Jail and analyzed the people types and the type that gets hired for the local police deparment, how similar they would be?