I think there are other issues besides the lawsuit stigma.
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Tuffey said the friction between Hinton and DEC officials developed because he wanted to go to the police academy to become a sworn DEC officer, but had not taken the civil service tests required.
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Why hadn't he taken the tests? Didn't feel he should have to? or wasn't allowed to?
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The offer extended involved overseeing private detective agencies hired by the fund — reviewing bid proposals, investigative reports done by the consultants and methods used. "He rejected those additional responsibilities," Lawson said.
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So they would give him something to keep him busy but it's not what he wants to do.Sounds to me like it's a combination of politics and his ego are the root of the problem.
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Privately, some of Hinton's former colleagues describe Hinton as obsessed with becoming a cop and sometimes peculiar in his investigative techniques, for instance setting up in cars to conduct surveillances of co-workers.
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I think both at the time of the lawsuit, and now, he's playing the race card rather than looking at the possibility that he may be impossibility irritating.