Without knowing details I have to belive this is just a rare incidence and would be very hard to predict. She was Assistant Director of Corrections and it was her last day before her retirement. She was regarded as "a model employee," by the Sheriff, judges and her coworkers. She was so well repspected that "some of the older guys looked up to her as a mother figure,".
Who knows ... maybe there are some checklists you can add but I don't see the scnenario happening again anytime soon.
Checklist??
How about enforcing existing policies regarding guards fraternization with inmates?
How about enforcing existing policies about requiring two deputies for the transfer?
How about requiring deputies to actually follow the rules even if the rule breaker is “a model employee” that others “look up to”
The last one is the crux of the problem throughout law enforcement. Rules were in place to prevent this. But rules don’t matter to cops, because nobody is going to enforce those rules. Doesn’t matter if the law is against fraternization with inmates nor if it is a rule about treating inmates humanely. Cops not responding to an emergency will park in handicap spaces so they can eat at an IHOP safe in the knowledge they won’t return to a ticket.
The problem both in this instance and in the cases such as cops killing unarmed black men, tasering 9 year olds, handcuffing 5 year old etc, is LEO are treated and act as they are above the law.
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