'Buy-a-Badge' Programs Are a Recipe for Disaster, and Eric Harris Paid the Price

Bob Bates' badge looked real enough, but the man wearing it had less than half the training of his fellow deputies, far less accountability to his supervisors, and a gun that was just as deadly. Real guns loaded with real bullets, but behind a badge that was bought rather than earned. This is a big part of the reason that Eric Harris is dead today.
Bob Bates, a reserve deputy in the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office and a wealthy 73-year-old insurance executive, shot Eric Harris accidentally while he was supposedly reaching for his Taser. Although Bob Bates is being charged with manslaughter, he didn't commit this act in a silo. He was placed in an extremely dangerous situation when he was armed and unprepared.
Who placed him there? The Tulsa County sheriff.
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