I was also mystified at the first part of that quote, that "being a young police officer contributed to the cause of this offense." How does that work? Does being a young cop often lead to trafficking child pornography?
I have to assume there’s some context in the case im missing that makes that statement perfectly reasonable because the alternative is this guy stating that the cop profession somehow makes you do pedo shit and this is so well known a phenomenon that it doesn’t need further elaboration.
You know how narcs are often addicted to the drugs they’re confiscating from dealers? This dude was busting pedos and decided he should see what the fuss was all about.
I’m sure the parole officer will treat him the same as any other convict and he’ll get tossed back in prison for missing a phone call or something. They wouldn’t give him preferential treatment.
Cops should receive longer sentences, harsher penalties than the regular population. Like double. Because they are supposed to be held to a higher standard.
Hopefully in 6 months enough inmates will be able to show this guy just how unpopular cops and paedos are in prison. Kind of a double whammy. But I'm a Brit so I don't know if County jail is 'easy' jail or 'oh shit' jail.
So in US. jail is where you go pending trial, or if you are sentenced to 365 or less days of incarceration. Prison is 365+1 days or more. Exceptions to this include if you're awaiting a trial but was sentenced to prison from a previous crime or something to that end. Easy is relative. Many say Prison is better than jail because there's less of a revolving door and you know where you'll be for awhile. There's also systems set up like more classes and opportunities because the captive audience is going to be there longer and can go through more programming in prison v. Jail.