Mike Bauer

Why wouldn't you want to take a look at it?

He said, no, that's a hot potato.

No one's allowed to touch that.

If I started poking around that case, they'd let me go.

I said, well, that's interesting.

Why?

It's a suicide.

He said, I don't know.

I just know that that case can't be touched.

Those red flags are another reason Rathbun and others just can't get behind the party line.

As my father would say, God bless him, there's something rotten in the woodpile and it stinks and I can smell it.

And that brings us back to the poop mushroom.

It might thrive in darkness, but to me, that's not an ideal environment for policing.

I mean, the whole concept behind law enforcement is that watchful eyes deter crime, right?

But who is watching the police?

There's very little oversight of law enforcement agencies, and it's hard to hold them accountable since they control the collection and release of information about internal problems.

The philosophy of the Sheriff's Department is to hide it.

And the philosophy of government, in a lot of respects, is that way now with the terrible way they handle public records requests and stuff.

They just basically stonewall you.

They give you the middle finger if you're asking for something that the public has a right to know.