How swiftly (and favorably) the wheels of justice turn, if one is a "special person"

Chandler, Arizona Police Detective Brett Lockwood was arrested on August 11 of this year after someone reported having knowledge of a recent physical altercation between him and his wife at their home:

"Chandler police got a call from someone 'close to the family' reporting that his wife had bruises after a fight the couple had two days earlier." (Emphasis mine)

Last week, on Friday, August 21, Lockwood was sentenced to "36 months of probation and substance-abuse counseling in a deferred prosecution deal in Gilbert Municipal Court".

Boy, that was amazingly fast, eh? The rocket-like speed of this case's resolution wouldn't be because the suspect was a cop or anything, now would it?

Curiously, Lockwood was charged only with "misdemeanor" assault and not "domestic" assault, despite his wife admitting to responding Gilbert police officers that her husband had hurt her on more than one occasion, and despite the creep's lying about putting his hands on her in the first place. This is a very interesting turn of events, as domestic battery would seem to be most descriptive of Lockwood's reprehensible behavior, and undoubtedly the charge that would be applied to any non-cop found in the exact same situation.

Why the reduced charge, then? Well, perhaps because the execrable and unconstitutional Lautenberg Amendment mandates that anyone convicted of any crime of domestic violence, no matter how trivial, be barred from owning or carrying firearms for life, which naturally would be a real career-killer for "Officer" Lockwood. That would seem as likely a reason as any for the overlooking of the obvious "domestic" nature of this crime.

See, it really is good to be a "special person".

"The closure of the criminal case paves the way for the department to start its own investigation into Lockwood, a routine internal affairs investigation that opens when any officer is arrested and charged with a crime."

We certainly hope that the Internal Affairs folks who investigate Lockwood's egregious conduct take into consideration that he is now a convicted wife-beater who deliberately lied to fellow officers when they decide whether or not to recommend keeping him employed as a homicide detective.

After all, when one thinks about it, what possible credibility could he have, both in the field and in the courtroom, when working a domestic murder?