Drunken cop pointing gun at bar manager shows intolerable double standard

"I had a drunk cop pointing a loaded gun at the back of my head -- he's still on the force?” Farmington’s South Main Street Pub manager Charlie Ball asked incredulously. “This is crazy."

Hefferon, who has his sentencing date set for Oct. 3, will remain on the force, a police department spokesman acknowledged, albeit he will be “protecting and serving” the community without a gun, raising the question of just what he’ll be doing to earn his keep and why the taxpayers even need him if he's disqualified himself from their trust.
His attorney, naturally, says he has “earned a second chance.” Evidently not threatening people with deadly weapons in an alcohol-fueled haze while under court scrutiny constitutes an achievement meriting publicly-subsidized employment. Even if one can't do the job and they'll have to assign someone else to pick up the slack.