This organization is not beyond reproach. They have failed members more than once.
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Sexual predators are found everywhere. Until they are caught there is not much an employer can do. No organization is immune.
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No organization is immune because such despicable people exist everywhere, hidden in plain sight. Be glad that finally some action and redress is possible for victims through Safe Sport. And I hope that attitudes and the culture of acceptance are changing - for the better.
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You see no irony in the fact an organization founded to combat multiple forms abuse in sports hired a man previously accused of rape???
You don’t question SafeSports hiring practices???
The fox is watching the henhouse here, and people are pretending it does not matter.
How many are being failed by an organization that wields enough power to destroy lives, yet its own investigators are corrupt?
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Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
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How many members have been helped? How many naive parents and young riders have been educated on what is the correct and acceptable behavior of coaches, trainers, groomers and barn staff and been spared being abused? How many individuals have found the strength and courage to come forward to stop their abusers from abusing another? No organization is perfect. Can it do better, yes. Bad individuals will always be around, but Safe Sport has made it possible to root them out.
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My interpretation (I could be wrong) of the article was that the SA occurred while he was a police officer but has just been reported now - his partner in crime has just been suspended by the same police force. One reported question being asked by safe sport is how this person managed to circumvent their rigorous vetting process. I think the real tell is that as soon as safe sport became aware of the misdeeds, the person was terminated. If safe sport allowed the person to keep working - then I’d think the pitchforks were necessary. IMHO this is simply a shitty human doing shitty things… and finally got caught/reported.
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I read it that he had already been let go from the police force for his misdeeds involving the theft of money when he was hired on at Safesport. I realize this type of infraction is not what Safesport is all about, but that alone seems like something that would raise the red flags enough that I would think that Safesport would not be hiring this person.
I am glad they let him go as soon as this latest horrible situation started.
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There’s a huge problem in the US with police forces not being willing to acknowledge why former officers were let go, which allows officers with problematic records to get fired for misconduct and just move on to another jurisdiction and get hired, and repeat. There’s no database or registry for this type of thing so it’s entirely up to either the officer or their former employers to bring it up, and most won’t. I think it was the Washington Post that did a major investigative series on it, definitely a fascinating read and probably what happened here in some way.
Terrible people routinely make it through much stricter vetting processes than SafeSport can feasibly apply. It sucks, but it is what it is. It’s still sad for any victims he may have impacted in the meantime and I hope SafeSport is reviewing his past cases to check for any issues, as well as looking at whether they could have potentially caught this with different vetting practices.
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well that goes for most any business as few if any will provide a reason for termination
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This does not appear to be correct, based both on the phrasing in the original article, and this additional reporting: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/jason-krasley-allentown-police-theft-cash/.
It appears that the investigation of his misdeeds did not really get underway until after he left for SafeSport, and they fired him once he was arrested on the initial theft charges. And, even if that’s not the case, as @dmveventer wisely points, LEOs are often able to move from department to department without reasons for their termination/past misdeeds being fully shared. In this case, none of the reporting suggests that this officer was fired because of the theft, or even fired at all. Once Safesport learned of the theft allegations - when he was arrested - they did the right thing and fired him.
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I think you have it right. The timeline according to news reports is this:
2002-2021: He was with the police dept.
2019: there were allegations of a theft of cash
2021: he left the PD and a Grand Jury was convened to investigate the theft
November 2024: he is arrested for the theft
December 2024: he is fired from SS
January 2025: New allegations of sexual misconduct are made.
It appears he was let go as soon as SS became aware of the arrest for theft. Prior to that, there was no reason to be aware of his misconduct. And the sexual allegations only came to light after he was fired.
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Apparently a 501c3 that didn’t require a thorough background check or security clearance. Have they changed their hiring policy since November?
The allegation alone should have put his application at the back of the line.
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There is no mention that SS knew or should have known of the theft allegation. As I understand the reporting, it was a discussion within the PD.
Just for the record, SS is not a 501©(3) charity. It is a federal government funded entity.
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You are right. My apologies.
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No apology necessary! I did double-check in case their status had changed. Life is all about change and sometimes it catches me by surprise.
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Sure, but most of those people aren’t being handed weapons and sent out to provide taxpayer funded-public security services. I’m not going to keep this going since I don’t want to get into a political discussion, but there are plenty of industries where additional regulation and scrutiny have been deemed appropriate.
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@iberianfan good job, and that chronology tracks. Very likely that Safesport would not have learned during the hiring process of an allegation, which is very different from an actual finding/determination. And that makes SafeSport not unlike other law enforcement agencies that hire experienced officers who decide to leave before rumblings of trouble turn to something more.
The silver lining is that, according to reporting, SafeSport is taking the right remedial steps by taking a look at his prior cases and their own hiring practices.
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I am only allowed to say someone is ineligible to be re-hired when asked, not provide more information if asked about a former employee. I hate that, but it’s a guideline to prevent legal exposure for lawsuits by the fired individual. I would never hire someone I knew a previous employer said was ineligible for re-hire because you can’t know how severe it was.
It sounds as if this was an unknown at the time as mentioned. But this light shining on abuse, and even this case specifically, only helps identify the evil in abusers.
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