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Re: HPD Busted... Scoops was out early at the picnic
I was in a Verizon Wireless retail store in Hilo and was talking to a retired Hawaii Police Department police officer who came from the Kaneohe Precinct in Honolulu. He told me that trying to integrate into another county police force was like pulling teeth.
He said that when he would do his job he would be told to reconsider the evidence at hand. Basically he said he had to read between the fine print when it came to working with his new buddies.
I told him I found some drug stuff on the road and had given it to the police station. He told me he believes the receiving officer probably kept the stuff instead of documenting the find.
He said he retired instead of attempting to cross that thin blue line. Here on the Big Island you learn to just look the other way no matter who's doing the crime because the family network is so tight here that if you were to rat on a person and believe your identity will be kept a secret, don't bet on it. Someone in some government agency here will have access to these confidential pieces of info and will pass it down to their friends in light conversation. Then it hits the Papaiko grapevine and pretty soon it's all over Hilo.
I was in a Verizon Wireless retail store in Hilo and was talking to a retired Hawaii Police Department police officer who came from the Kaneohe Precinct in Honolulu. He told me that trying to integrate into another county police force was like pulling teeth.
He said that when he would do his job he would be told to reconsider the evidence at hand. Basically he said he had to read between the fine print when it came to working with his new buddies.
I told him I found some drug stuff on the road and had given it to the police station. He told me he believes the receiving officer probably kept the stuff instead of documenting the find.
He said he retired instead of attempting to cross that thin blue line. Here on the Big Island you learn to just look the other way no matter who's doing the crime because the family network is so tight here that if you were to rat on a person and believe your identity will be kept a secret, don't bet on it. Someone in some government agency here will have access to these confidential pieces of info and will pass it down to their friends in light conversation. Then it hits the Papaiko grapevine and pretty soon it's all over Hilo.
j/k
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