# Sheriff Clarke, Trump's new Assistant Secretary in the Dept of Homeland Security is a plagarist **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 21, 2017, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179 "2017-05-21T22:17:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/61 "2017-05-23T17:35:34Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Sheriff clarke’s plagiarized thesis was on law enforcement. Does that have anything to do with the job he is in these days? His lack of intimate knowledge of the appropriate method for attributing a quote in an academic paper does not strike me as particularly germane to his career in law enforcement. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > It’s not a matter of the ethics of plagiarizing, it’s a matter that, with his thesis being invalid for the purposes he submitted it for, he has not demonstrated a comprehensive knowledge of law enforcement. Probably good enough for a cop, or even a county sheriff, but for a national post with this much influence? I wasn’t aware that a Master’s degree in security studies was a job requirement for Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Partnership and Engagement. If I went and looked up Obama and Clinton appointees to this post, do you think I’d find that they all had comparable academic credentials? If not, would that be proof that those Dem Presidents were appointing people unqualified for the job, or that it’s not really a requirement? Personally, I think his 15 or so years as the chief law enforcement officer in a county of almost a million people is more than enough qualification for the job. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/62 "2017-05-23T17:52:17Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > His lack of intimate knowledge of the appropriate method for attributing a quote in an academic paper does not strike me as particularly germane to his career in law enforcement. I was talking more his lack of demonstrated knowledge of his thesis topic. > [@](#): > > I wasn’t aware that a Master’s degree in security studies was a job requirement for Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Partnership and Engagement. If I went and looked up Obama and Clinton appointees to this post, do you think I’d find that they all had comparable academic credentials? If not, would that be proof that those Dem Presidents were appointing people unqualified for the job, or that it’s not really a requirement? Personally, I think his 15 or so years as the chief law enforcement officer in a county of almost a million people is more than enough qualification for the job. A master’s is not required, I do not believe, and looking up Phil McNamara doesn’t actually tell me his educational credentials, so I couldn’t tell you whether or not Obama’s appointee had one. I can tell you though, that this guy does not have one, even though he claims to have one, and that’s really the problem. And while this academic dishonesty is kind of like giving Ted Bundy a speeding ticket, it does speak to character, but then, as you point out his 15 years in charge of milwaukee’s’ police also shows his character, and I find that to be reprehensible all on its own. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/63 "2017-05-23T18:02:50Z")
I’ve got a question for those of you participating in this thread. [Here is the DHS Leadership page](https://www.dhs.gov/leadership). It currently lists a guy named “John Barsa” as the Assistant Secretary, Office of Partnership and Engagement (acting). I am not certain if that is the same [John Barsa that joined Twitter in 2009](https://twitter.com/JohnBarsa) (mostly because it’s such a lowly position that it doesn’t merit a bio on DHS’ website and Barsa hasn’t yet earned himself a Wikipedia page), but I think it’s a reasonable supposition given that he was “[wading through the DHS Appropriations comittee conference report](https://twitter.com/JohnBarsa/status/4864387836)” in 2009 and I have a hard time imagining many people doing that if they’re not getting paid for it. The Twitter John Barsa had a fairly regular habit of retweeting @GenFlynn (yes, [THAT General Flynn](https://twitter.com/GenFlynn)) throughout much of last year. So my question is: **Would you rather have John Barsa leading the DHS Office of Partnership and Engagement or Sheriff Clark?** Because those are your two choices. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/64 "2017-05-23T18:54:31Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I’ve got a question for those of you participating in this thread. > > [Here is the DHS Leadership page](https://www.dhs.gov/leadership). It currently lists a guy named “John Barsa” as the Assistant Secretary, Office of Partnership and Engagement (acting). I am not certain if that is the same [John Barsa that joined Twitter in 2009](https://twitter.com/JohnBarsa) (mostly because it’s such a lowly position that it doesn’t merit a bio on DHS’ website and Barsa hasn’t yet earned himself a Wikipedia page), but I think it’s a reasonable supposition given that he was “[wading through the DHS Appropriations comittee conference report](https://twitter.com/JohnBarsa/status/4864387836)” in 2009 and I have a hard time imagining many people doing that if they’re not getting paid for it. > > The Twitter John Barsa had a fairly regular habit of retweeting @GenFlynn (yes, [THAT General Flynn](https://twitter.com/GenFlynn)) throughout much of last year. > > So my question is: **Would you rather have John Barsa leading the DHS Office of Partnership and Engagement or Sheriff Clark?** Because those are your two choices. Well, obviously, I would like the one that Clinton would have picked, so, you are correct in that neither of them are my first choice. He re-tweeted a Merry christmas from flynn, not all that controversial, and then (or rather previously) he retweeted some of flynn’s pro-trump stuff during the campaign. I’ve seen worse. But, on that matter, if you are actually asking my opinion, then, assuming[this is the same one](http://rnhava-slate.tripod.com/id5.html), I would much prefer Basra. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/65 "2017-05-23T19:00:34Z")
Unless Barsa has a record of extreme callousness towards people who have died in his care, I’d vastly prefer Barsa. Monsters, or near-monsters, shouldn’t serve in government, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/66 "2017-05-23T19:29:03Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Clarke strikes me as a compassion-free killer, even a monster … > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > … a record of extreme callousness towards people who have died in his care … I’m curious, and I genuinely don’t know the answer. What is Sheriff Clark’s “record of extreme callousness”? You’ve maligned him as “compassion-free”. Is there any evidence of this? Did he point and laugh as the inmate(s) died? Piss on their expired corpse(s)? Throw a parade for the corrections officers whose malice / screw-up led to the death(s)? What were his public statements about the death(s)? Did he ever express regret / sorrow? Did he go out of his way to say he was _not_ sorry, that the “bastard(s) deserved it” or something like that? ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/67 "2017-05-23T19:31:53Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > But, on that matter, if you are actually asking my opinion, then, assuming[this is the same one](http://rnhava-slate.tripod.com/id5.html), I would much prefer Basra. Thanks for your answer, and the link to the bio. I now know a lot more about John Barsa than I did before. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/68 "2017-05-23T19:33:58Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I’m curious, and I genuinely don’t know the answer. What is Sheriff Clark’s “record of extreme callousness”? You’ve maligned him as “compassion-free”. Is there any evidence of this? Did he point and laugh as the inmate(s) died? Piss on their expired corpse(s)? Throw a parade for the corrections officers whose malice / screw-up led to the death(s)? What were his public statements about the death(s)? Did he ever express regret / sorrow? Did he go out of his way to say he was _not_ sorry, that the “bastard(s) deserved it” or something like that? > **[Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke Blames Inmates For Dying At His Jail](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/david-clarke-jail-deaths_n_58499ebbe4b04002fa803ec9)** > > It's pretty much everybody's fault but his, Clarke says. Clarke’s jails’ death rates are at least 3 times higher than the national average. He’s taken no responsibility and expressed no remorse. He’s blamed the inmates themselves for their deaths. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/69 "2017-05-23T19:43:11Z")
Not all of those who sit in judgement of academic papers are snotty pedants, quick to exaggerate the importance of minor flaws of formality. But enough of them _are_ so that the smart student quickly learns these rules, and applies them. Anyway, all we got here is someone who is smart enough to do postgraduate work but not smart enough to follow a set of fairly straightforward rules. Whateverness. Wouldn’t think better of Joe Arpaio if I found out he had a totally legit Ph.D . ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/70 "2017-05-23T20:38:12Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Clarke’s jails’ death rates are at least 3 times higher than the national average. I think this is a misleading statement, and I’ve got to call it out. The HuffPo article (hardly an unbiased source where conservatives are concerned) said this: > [@](#): > > Based on an analysis of The Huffington Post’s jail death database, other jails that have four deaths in a year are several times the size of Clarke’s downtown jail site, which has a capacity of 960. Even if no additional inmates die at Clarke’s jail this year, the facility’s death rate will be roughly three times the national average, according to 2013 figures. I’m not sure what “2013 figures” they’re comparing this to, and they don’t say, but I’m prepared to accept that they suggest a national average of 0.138888888% (4 / 960 / 3) or lower. You might imagine the level of regard I hold for HuffPo’s jail death “database”, but just so you can properly appreciate it’s inadequacies as a scientific source, I’ll share [their own description](https://data.huffingtonpost.com/2016/jail-deaths): > [@](#): > > The Huffington Post gathered names, causes of death, dates of arrest and death, and other data for more than 800 people who died in jails and police lockups in the year following Sandra Bland’s death on July 13, 2015. > > Because it is so difficult to obtain details of fatalities that occur in jails, many of the deaths in this database have not previously been reported. A number of states collect some form of death data from all their jails. In others, the reporting process is far from comprehensive. Some, like Texas, collect information from counties but not from municipalities. Others, like Louisiana, only track deaths of inmates in state custody — a tiny fraction of the jail population. (Jails are short-term holding facilities in which many inmates have not been convicted; our study does not include deaths in prison.) > > To supplement these figures, we scoured news reports and press releases, gathered official records, filed public records requests, and called hundreds of jails. When news reports omitted details like the date of arrest or official cause of death, reporters requested that information, either from the jail or the office of the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy. We particularly focused on jails with more than 500 inmates. The Bureau of Justice Statistics doesn’t collect data on deaths in facilities that hold people for less than 72 hours, such as police lockups, even though people are at significant risk of hurting themselves during that period. We included such institutions in our count. > > Despite our efforts, the true number of deaths is still unknown. Not all jails responded, and we almost certainly missed deaths at smaller jails and police holding facilities. We are continuing to research and will update this page with deaths as we uncover them. If you know of someone who died while in jail or police custody between July 13, 2015, and July 13, 2016, you can contact us using this form. Can you spot any potential problems / shortcomings in their methodology, at least if we want to use it to compare a particular jail or group of jails? To illustrate just how shitty a job HuffPo has done maintaining their “database”, you can scroll down from the link I shared above and do a search for Wisconsin jail deaths. It will return 12 results, 11 of which were not in Milwaukee County. That’s right - they can’t even “scour” their own _HuffPo_ news articles to record the other three deaths that they’re complaining about in the database. The only one they’ve got is Terrill Thomas. Let’s set aside all the obvious flaws in HuffPo’s “jail death database” for a moment because that’s not even my real gripe with your claim. The article makes the claim about inmate deaths in 2016. Was 2016 the only year Clarke was Sheriff? NO! He’s got a long record stretching back to 2002. How many of those years was a he a “compassion-free killer” in? All of them? Some of them? Was his jail death rate three times the national average in all of those years? If you want to make sweeping statements about “Clarke’s jails’ death rates” do you think it would be fair to him to include all the years he’s run the jail, or just the worst one? Should you provide some context around those numbers, or let them stand as if they’re statistically significant? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/71 "2017-05-23T21:00:31Z")
I’ll happily retract the 3 times assertion for now. The rest of my criticism stands. It’s possible there’s a non monstrous explanation for those deaths, and I’m open to that possibility, but until such an explanation comes to light, I’d much prefer someone with a near zero chance of being a monster in a high position than Clarke. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/72 "2017-05-23T22:14:10Z")
So, we can fairly assume that you are entirely prejudiced against the nomination of Dr. Hannibal Lecter for Surgeon General? Yes? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/73 "2017-05-24T17:00:27Z")
How does one get into the Naval Graduate School without ever having served a single day? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/74 "2017-05-24T19:02:01Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > How does one get into the Naval Graduate School without ever having served a single day? See the last paragraph of my post #14 earlier in the thread. They lend their accreditation credential under a contract to a HomeSec/FEMA program for extended ed courses for civilian LEOs. (As it happens today I am attending a meeting sponsored by exactly those folks! Eerie) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/75 "2017-05-26T13:43:05Z")
And there’s the case where Clarke was[so intimidated by a guy shaking his head at him on a plane](http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/daniel-bice/2017/05/25/bice-sheriff-clarke-directed-staff-hassle-plane-passenger-after-brief-exchange/342245001/), that Clarke had a bunch of his officers detain the guy when the plane landed in Milwaukee. Quite the snowflake, wouldn’t you say? (The funny thing is, Clarke called the _other_ guy a snowflake. _Serious_ projection.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/76 "2017-05-26T13:49:39Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > His lack of intimate knowledge of the appropriate method for attributing a quote in an academic paper does not strike me as particularly germane to his career in law enforcement. I think this is a defensible position. > [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I wasn’t aware that a Master’s degree in security studies was a job requirement for Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Partnership and Engagement. If I went and looked up Obama and Clinton appointees to this post, do you think I’d find that they all had comparable academic credentials? If not, would that be proof that those Dem Presidents were appointing people unqualified for the job, or that it’s not really a requirement? Personally, I think his 15 or so years as the chief law enforcement officer in a county of almost a million people is more than enough qualification for the job. This, however, is not. This bring irrelevant people and deeds into the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/77 "2017-05-26T15:03:39Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I think this is a defensible position. > This, however, is not. This bring irrelevant people and deeds into the discussion. You don’t think the credentials of previous holders of the position would be relevant in a discussion about credentials necessary for a position? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/78 "2017-05-26T15:34:24Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > You don’t think the credentials of previous holders of the position would be relevant in a discussion about credentials necessary for a position? 😕 Only if the previous holders of the position held credentials that were also fraudulently gained. A master’s degree is supposed to mean that you know stuff. If you do a thesis, and a substantial amount of the work is verbatim quoted from another work, you didn’t really learn anything, or at least, you have not demonstrated that you have learned anything, you just copied someone else’s knowledge. From what I have seen of this, it does seem that if all of the bits that were verbatim had been properly noted with quotes or indentations, it is likely that his advisors would have required him to show more original work. As those were not set off, and were essentially claimed as his own original work, with the only way to check to go into the footnotes and make sure that he did not copy verbatim from the works he is citing, his advisors would have assumed that the copied material was his own, and considered his thesis on that. If a previous holder only has a diploma from 3rd grade, but is honest about it and shows the skills and capabilities of doing the job,then the academic qualification is not so important. If someone coasts on their degree that the fraudulently obtained, that would be a bit different, as they are making a claim to knowledge and skills that they have not actually demonstrated that they possess. ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/79 "2017-05-26T16:14:43Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > 47 times? Or, possibly, he tried to set the quotes off by using indents instead of quote marks and the layout got jacked. From your own post: > [@](#): > > “If a passage is quoted verbatim, it must be set off with quotation marks (or, if it is a longer passage, **presented as indented text** ), and followed by a properly formulated citation. The length of the phrase does not matter. If someone else’s words are sufficiently significant to be worth quoting, then accurate quotation followed by a correct citation is essential, even if only a few words are involved.” I don’t particularly care about Clarke. However, if Clarke used indents through out the whole document and the layout got jacked that could easily explain why it happened 47 times. This assumes, of course, that there were a total of 47 passages that he used. If it happened 47 times and there are 80 instances, that would be different. Slee ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sheriff-clarke-trumps-new-assistant-secretary-in-the-dept-of-homeland-security-is-a-plagarist/787179/80 "2017-05-26T16:24:14Z")
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