What happens when officials
try to avoid (or abuse) the proper process?
1 April 2011: Missouri
Legislature takes a shortcut, now faces a "do-over"
6 December 2011: Uplands
Park fails to follow procedure, investigated by MODOT
18 December 2011: Judges
permit forged signatures, draw fire from Presiding Judge
14 January 2012: Village
of Riverview ignores the rules, criticized by State Auditor
18 January 2012: Redistricting
commission ignores guidelines, Supreme Court says do it over
22 January 2012: City
slips up on details, wrong men languish in jail
22 January 2012: Commission
fails so badly their own attorney won't defend them
7 February 2012: City
treasurer avoids bidding procedures, now being sued
8 February 2012: Legislature
botches electoral rules, costs taxpayers $7,000,000
7 February 2012: Banks
fake documents, fined $25 billion
9 February 2012: Company
books expenses in wrong period, CEO and CFO fired - more
10 February 2012: Cop
bypasses procedures, charged with felony
15 February 2012: Supreme
Court tosses out ethics law because of the way legislators enacted it
18 February 2012: Ethics
law violates constitution, governor says "Do it over"
22 February 2012:
Legislature violates constitution again, another bill sent back
25 February 2012: Two
judges investigated for bending the rules
8 March 2012: Court
clerk may have altered 105 files as favor to friends
8 March 2012: Clerk
charged with forging court orders
17 March 2012: Delegates
distort procedure, caucus melts down
2 April 2012: Voter
ID bill fraudulent, summary does not match content
17 August 2012: Schools
cheat on tests
21 August 2012: City
contractor pays three ghosts and a blackmailer ...
22 August 2012: ... and
local politician scores $56,500
28 August 2012: Wrong
ballots, do it over and more
31 August 2012: Alderman
alters computer file and loses job
1 September 2012: Judge
destroys documents, is suspended; and her clerk goes to court
8 September 2012: Man defrauds
St. Louis parking contractor, guilty of federal wire
fraud
13 September 2012: Fire
chief makes $200,000 in undocumented purchases - FBI and IRS
investigating
16 September 2012: Museum
buys property from ex-mayor without appraisal - for four
times its value - possible
solution
20 September 2012: Police
Board deliberately indifferent to unconstitutional conduct - rebuked by Federal judge
23 September 2012: Museum
Board in the dark about finances ...
4 December 2012: ... and
it may cost them $10 million
19 March 2013: Good
law ruled unconstitutional - because it was poorly written
But what happens when a
situation is played by the book and the relevant procedures are
followed?
“It was a magnificent
piece of aviation professionalism.”
"It’s incumbent on
each of us to be vigilant and avoid complacency."
"These people knew
what they were supposed to do and they did it." - "evacuation
was 'text book' and an example to us all."