SALT LAKE CITY — During her 10 years as a Utah state trooper, Lisa Steed built a reputation as an officer with a knack for nabbing drunken motorists in a state with a long tradition of tee totaling and some of the nation’s strictest liquor laws.
Steed used the uncanny talent — as one supervisor once described it — to garner hundreds of arrests, setting records, earning praise as a rising star, and becoming the first woman to become trooper of the year.
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A law suit is filed by plaintiffs, not defendents. Really, AP, do you not edit or train reporters?
They were criminal defendants when they were arrested on phony DUI charges. That's how I read it.
This situation reminds me of the drug lab case in Massachusetts. When one employee in an office, whether it is the or the private sector, out-performs ALL comparable employees by a significant margin, management must take a hard look at the situation. Either all of the other employees are slackers - possible but unlikely - or the over-performing employee is falsifying data/results. To ignore the discrepancy because the employee's production benefits the system is to invite the consequences now being felt in Utah and Massachusetts.
She should move to Massachusetts and join the state police where she would fit right in.