| The weirdness from the Hardin Jail continues...
There's actually not much news in this report, other than noting that Hardin's agreement with the mysterious "American Police Force" is still on, but it is chock full o' tasty oddities that I can't help noting some of them...
...like a small procession of the investors' Mercedes SUVs arriving in Hardin, emblazoned with the logo, "City of Hardin Police Department," yet Hardin has no police department...
...and the "American Police Force"...er..."leader"?...Michael Hilton, planning a helicopter tour of the area, "to look at real estate for a planned tactical military training ground" of 5,000 to 10,000 acres...
...and my favorite, which needs to be excerpted:
On Friday, American Police Force announced its first local hire: a reporter for the Billings Gazette, Becky Shay, who has covered events surrounding the jail since its construction. She will be the company's spokeswoman for $60,000 a year.
Shay said she intended to bring new transparency to the process, but declined to directly answer the first question posed to her: Where is American Police Force getting the money to operate the jail and build the training center?
"I know enough about where the money is coming from to be confident signing on with them," she said.
Gazette Editor Steve Prosinski said he was first informed about Shay's decision to leave the paper on Friday. "We weren't aware that she was talking with them about employment," he said.
How soon they learn to stonewall! Apparently it's a skill nudged into perfection more by money than practice... |
