Police chief gets $260K golden parachute after covering up his own drunken hit-and-run

Police chief gets $260K golden parachute after covering up his own drunken hit-and-run

In yet another of the endless illustration of the fact that police and their political cronies constitute the American equivalent of the Soviet nomenklatura, a police chief who was involved in a drunken hit-and-run collision last Spring, then lied and obstructed the investigation, will not only escape criminal charges, but will be given a severance package of $260,000 in accumulated salary and benefits.