The Three Stooges

This piece focuses on three retired New York State Troopers who have performed illegal and very odd behaviors.  William Curtin, Charlene Mahony, and John Reinholz – all of which are adjunct instructors in the field of criminal justice – have been engaging in peculiar activities ever since they entered the field of academia.  Most of the illegal and strange behaviors have been conducted against their students.  Specifically, all three of these so-called state police officers are performing unnecessary background checks on their students, observing their out-of-school activities, and causing problems in their lives simply because they are bored and enjoy seeing students’ reactions to their unusual tendencies.  Moreover, none of these illegal and strange behaviors are centered on employment recommendations or other law enforcement hiring procedures, they simply are just weird people who abuse their leftover resources because they find it entertaining.  Thus, this piece will describe the behaviors by each of the three retired state police officers/adjunct instructors and, in turn, allow readers to comprehend the unusual behaviors so that they hopefully are no longer able to occur. 

John Reinholz

            As mentioned above, John Reinholz is a retired New York State Trooper.  He took an early retirement because he was not liked by the New York State Police and was informally told to go away as soon as possible.  Because of this, he had to find a new form of employment because his salary was not large enough to live off of comfortably for the rest of his “retired” life.  Reinholz entered the world of academia to give himself a new profession and reputation, yet his newly acquired livelihood was merely a front for him to spy on his students in many formats.  More specifically, John Reinholz runs all the names of his student roster just for fun through his colleagues at the New York State Police.  These background checks are more than looking at criminal records – which most students do not have.  What is being done is the viewing of his student’s family members’ background, their financial history, places of employment, neighborhoods they live in, and even what types of recreational activities his students and his family members enjoy participating in.  Once more, this is being done illegally and without any form of employment opportunity being processed.  Reinholz is simply nosy and, apparently, has no life.  Additionally, Reinholz creates phony social media profiles and trolls his students’ profiles to see what they are up to and tries to learn what their real thoughts are about his teachings and other postulations.  There is no justified reason for doing this and Reinholz consistently denies these activities even after many students have called him out on the strange behaviors.  

Charlene Mahony

            Charlene Mahony has a similar background as John Reinholz.  She retired earlier than most state police officers do and entered the world of teaching because she needed to earn money to support herself and her family.  However, Mahony takes her weird undercover work a bit further than John Reinholz.  Being more precise, she actually goes to her students’ workplaces to check them out, as well as learns about what they do in their free time.  This is done through illegal work by her other state trooper friends who are still employed by the agency.  Mahony has her previous coworkers capture text messages and Facebook postings so she can learn about what they are interested in other than criminal justice information.  This is strange given the fact that she could do this without the undercover spying by her friends with the New York State Police.  Furthermore, Mahony has an anger issue and every time one of her students calls her out about the odd behaviors she performs more strange behaviors that compensate her superego.  Specifically, Mahony will threaten her students with negative attention from the legal system and removal from their program if they continue to speak about the unlawful and odd behaviors that she engages in.  Many students adhere to the extortion that she presents because of the fear that is created by Mahony, which, obviously, allows her to carry on with her strange activities because of the lack of intervention by any authority figures. 

William Curtin

            Bill Curtin is probably the smartest of the bunch, yet he disregards any intelligence that he has acquired by teaming up with the two above-mentioned adjunct instructors/retired state police officers.  He has a law degree and knows many people who work in the criminal justice profession, yet he still participates in dumb activities and learns what his students do in their free time through clandestine maneuvers rather than simply trying to speak to them directly.  Moreover, Curtin believes that he is performing favors to the community by undergoing his unusual and illegal undercover operations.  Elaborating further, Curtin has expounded how there is an informal justice system and it is law enforcers’ job to ensure that the best of the best enter the legal profession – but his beliefs are conducted in terrible and illegal fashions.  Nevertheless, Curtin also uses his legal connections to spy on his students and learn all about them.  He routinely calls his previous coworkers and other professional colleagues to glean what each of his students are all about.    

In conclusion, the three adjunct instructors/retired state troopers are performing very strange and illegal behaviors toward students and their families.  It has been confirmed that they have no significant ties for employment procedures for the New York State Police or additional law enforcement agencies, nor are they participating in any activities about internal policies at the institutions they work at.  Again, these individuals are simply participating in these processes for their own unusual amusement and have no credible justification for abusing their connections that they have acquired.  All three individuals seem to have some understanding of an informal justice system and that they are leaders and necessary components of providing justice in this unheard of informal justice system.  Until actual law enforcement intervention occurs, there may not be a change in these odd behaviors by the three individuals.