Ongoing tensions between the Pima County Attorney’s Office and the Tucson Police Department were recently brought out into the open.
It started with the case of Daniel Hollander, who went into a Tucson school in January, armed and apparently in the midst of a psychotic episode. He was disarmed and arrested by a police officer working at the school, which was all cheered as a win for the rule of law.
But then, things went awry — at least in the eyes of the Tucson police officers who arrested him. Hollander was indicted by a grand jury of three serious felonies and a misdemeanor. But, he got a plea deal from the County Attorney’s Office: a year-and-a-half in prison and then 10 years of probation…