If you're a relatively new resident of Washington County, Indiana you might see some smiling faces, a few waves and meet occasionally some friendly people that are actually locals. However, that really doesn't get to the bottom of what Washington County and its local government systems and some of the people in them are really about.
Now my detractors will try to say stupid things like Washington County is the best place that they've ever been or lived yet they really haven't spent more than two weeks outside of Washington County, Indiana and Salem, Indiana other than maybe a short two week or one month vacation where they behave like the usually blind tourist that really has nothing to grasp onto in order to make a judgement call about a particular place.
My experience with Washington County can be traced back to the better part of five different decades in which I have seen enough of the local system and local people in certain positions that get by with various things because of their last name, political affiliations, being part of the good buddy system or what one might call the Good Old Boys.
From various branches of county government to even Salem City government here are plenty of scofflaws and deadbeats that get by with their nefarious deeds and actions because they got their little base of local supporters kind of like what one would have as athletic supporters or in my opinion a bunch of jockstraps. That's kind of how some of the so called scions of Washington County behave because their grandfather was someone in county government, city government and local society.
The other group of morons comes from people that have moved to Washington County and use these quaint but totally out of date terms like God and family and Christian family values as if no one notices their corruption and lying and cheating and the fact that a lot of them including some of the long time locals are nothing more than deadbeats.
The laughable thing is that when you start looking at court records and arrest records and various other public records there is plenty of what we might call "white trash" in 99 percent Washington County because of their actions. Some of these actions might include theft, burglary, drug abuse, unpaid debts and bills that they refuse to pay even after being sued by their creditors. Even more than a handful of Washington County types have warrants out on them for various felony crimes and things such as domestic violence, gun crimes, drug crimes, drug dealing and other violent crimes. Yet the Good Old Boys around Washington County, Indiana and Salem, Indiana seem to welcome these types of people because they mouth some absurdities about God, Christianity, Family and Country all the while being some of the biggest criminally inspired and lying dirtballs around.
The reason this state of affairs is allowed in this county and much of Southern Indiana is because some of the LOCAL LEGAL EAGLES benefit handsomely from representing career criminals, deadbeats, drug pushers and abusers and common criminals. They really don't want to improve Washington County, Indiana but would rather it look like a big "white trash" paradise in the middle of Southern Indiana and be the laughingstock of the region and the state at large. Especially when these criminals and deadbeats continue to cycle through the local law enforcement community to the point that they will be charged with a crime and then be recycled through the system multiple times with more and more charges rather than be rehabilitated and made to get a job and become a productive citizen.
The GOOD OLD BOY system of Washington County, Indiana works that way along with cops knowing about known drug activity and then not investigating the criminal aspect of such activities and then trying to make excuses about why they refused to act when they were told by responsible citizens that were reporting a crime. In most police jurisdictions, reporting of a crime being committed at least warrants proper investigation by a trained law enforcement officer and also brings in other officers to investigate.
Not to mention in a county like Washington County where malfeasance and criminality go hand in hand among some of the illustrious citizens and enforcers around the county. Strangely enough many people walk free from serious crimes such as battery, domestic violence, burglary, theft, serious drug offenses and such because they're able to cop a plea deal with the prosecutor and therefore the criminal gets smacked on the wrist with the admonishment not to do that again. Yet if you look at the court records you'll find that these same people are regularly in the Detention Center and Hall of Justice regularly in front of judges and prosecutors only to be smack on the hand time and time again for various offenses. All in the name to make sure there is enough work for lawyers, attorneys, paralegals, law enforcement officers and of course the local judges including one "Voice of Justice" for Washington County and another long time judge that seems to have problems understanding the Indiana Code when it comes to legal proceedings between people in property disputes include laws of possession and legal statutes in Indiana which they have violated under the law.
That's the kind of corrupt nature of Washington County, Indiana and Salem, Indiana that makes it for a long time resident and hometown born individual such an increasingly unsavory community when the overall quality of life in the community is rapidly going downhill. Most because of the increasingly low mentality of much of the population, the third rate public school systems that believe they are top notch when they can't even education K-12 students to the point that they can graduate school with basic life skills and emerging work and career skills.
Washington County though is increasingly priding itself in being a "Certified White Trash Community" though judging by the character of the population and the mentality and criminality of much of its uneducated and often mentally challenged population.
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