Robert Bates, a millionaire insurance executive whose hobby is playing cop, is shown here leaving a Tulsa courtroom after pleading not guilty to second-degree manslaughter charges for shooting a suspect with his gun instead of his taser. Why shouldn’t he be smiling? Far from being in jail, he’s heading to the Bahamas for a vacation.
Update: CBS News reported that an internal “review” of Bates in 2009 revealed questionable training, preferential treatment, and dubious behavior by him and superiors who protected him, but the sheriff apparently brushed these concerns aside.