[Police Chief] Cody is scheduled to go to trial in February in Marion County on a felony charge of interfering with a judicial process, accused by the two special prosecutors of persuading a potential witness to withhold information from authorities investigating his conduct.
The county pays $3 million, and the perpetrator of the raid is on the hook not for the raid, but for asking someone to delete text messages in an attempt to cover up.
Again, the tax payer is on the hook for something government officials did in violation of the law.
Yes. The government officials are representatives of the state. Whatever they do, the state does. The state’s (or county’s) doings are consequences of the elected council members’ decisions.
You vote wrong, your tax money might end up spent unwisely. (And often, you vote in a sensible manner, but most of your neighbours don’t. And then the money gets spent the way most of your neighbours had wanted. By doing stupid illegal raids and paying their consequences.)
