This is an example of how the favor bank works. In addition many public officials can be hired to perform their duties on behalf of the employers. Local, or campus police will arrest a citizen if they are paid to do so, e.g. Then they just lie about why on their official report. The same pattern can be seen but seldom proved at state and federal levels too.
[From article]
A new government investigation questions a bizarre Secret Service mission that pulled agents from their assignment near the White House and sent them to the rural Maryland home of a headquarters employee embroiled in a personal dispute with a neighbor.
The report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general calls the conduct “problematic” and says the employee’s friendship with high-level Secret Service officials creates the appearance it was motivated by personal relations “rather than furthering official government functions.”
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local police arrested the neighbor, and the employee, identified by the Post as Lisa Chopey, sought a protective order. But it didn’t stop there. She told investigators that Keith Prewitt, then the deputy director of the Secret Service, was a family friend. And when he heard her story, Prewitt told A.T. Smith, then the assistant director for investigations, that the Secret Service should do something to help her out.
Smith directed one of his managers to have agents drive out to Chopey’s home in La Plata, Md., to check on her. The report says Sullivan, the agency director who has since retired, was made aware of that decision.
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“It shows how problematic the Secret Service is, top to bottom,” [U.S. Rep. Jason] Chaffetz [R-UT] said. “This is inexcusable.”
http://nypost.com/2014/10/22/secret-service-agents-pulled-from-duty-to-settle-personal-dispute/
Secret Service agents pulled from duty to settle personal dispute
New York Post
By Associated Press
October 22, 2014 | 9:57am
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