article_snippet.sent: A Tulsa police official said the department has 130 reserve deputies, many of 130 reserve deputies, many of them wealthy people who make donations to the police wealthy people who make donations to the police.
article_snippet.sent: That's not unusual at all," A Tulsa police official told the Tulsa World.
article_snippet.sent: But I doubt there are many volunteer septuagenarians working with the violent crimes task force.
article_snippet.sent: Police officers generally look with a skeptical eye toward volunteers.
article_snippet.sent: What is the point of background checks, psychological tests and the professional training police undergo if a person can donate a few grand and go out on patrol?
article_snippet.sent: Some people are a little too eager to be police officers.
article_snippet.sent: Police departments hate cop impersonators (it's illegal, by the way)
article_snippet.sent: and try and weed cop impersonators (it's illegal, by the way) during the hiring process.
article_snippet.sent: What happened in Tulsa County is a disgrace to police professionalism, and the fallout from this disaster may push police departments to end these kinds of programs.
highlights_snippet.sent: way in with donations to police.
highlights_snippet.sent: Cops are, and should be, wary of those a little too eager to be police .
  