If you ever contact the authorities for help on seeking remedy or pursuing justice after your rights have been violated, we would all hope that the officers involved in the case would know how to do their job. It is to be expected that they would at the very least perform the most basic functions of investigating the wrongdoing and allegations.

But some don't.

Take Columbus police detective A. Walsh for example,, who has recently been charged after an internal review found that she failed to properly investigate numerous cases.

This wasn't any rookie either, it was a 24-year veteran that should have known better.

If you are working at Wendy's and you take shortcuts, the customer might not end up with the right food or you might forget to put a straw in their bag. When they make a mistake as a police officer that jeopardizes the safety of the community and the liberty of the individual, as well as the pursuit of justice and truth.

Nothing good can come from ignoring or protecting those bad actors.

If an officer isn't conducting an investigation properly the are either ignorant of the procedures or they don't care to follow them, either way such a scenario shouldn't be dealt with lightly.

In one instance it's alleged that she had failed to submit a lab request for a sexual assault exam kit as a part of a sexual investigation she was involved in. Her and a few others are just the first few that have been found and punished as a part of the new 'conviction integrity review process' that authorities are pushing forward to try and change things from the inside.

According to one prosecutor, that team was put together so that authorities could try to strength police accountability.

For now, that officer has been placed on suspension. The charges come after a conviction-integrity review team had gone over some old cases to try and find if there was any new evidence or possible misconduct.

It's alleged that the Columbus Division of Police interim chief is continuing to look for and root out bad officers from the collective.

If they aren't going to do their job correctly then they should go looking for an occupation that requires much less responsibility, one where their failures don't jeopardize the safety and liberty of many.

There are other officers who are also allegedly going to see consequences for past actions as well, some who had previously been involved in a Vice Unit which is dissolved now; they have reportedly already been recommended for termination.

It's alleged that they had violated the rules of conduct that they are expected to follow.

An FBI investigation into that now dissolved Vice Unit is still reportedly ongoing.

Keep in mind that this is just one region of the country and in no time they've found several individuals who are allegedly worth cutting from the fold. There are still many others out there, who have and continue to violate their position of authority, and hopefully they will similarly be purged from their job in the community that they are expected to serve.

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