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In 1985, Dooley was cited in ''The [[Chicago Tribune]]'' in an article on Louisiana politics focusing on the hierarchy of cozy political relationships. ''The Tribune'' described bail bondsman Wiley Fallon of Bossier City as a friend and supporter of Sheriff Dooley, "the law in Bossier Parish," who:​

In 1985, Dooley was cited in ''The [[Chicago Tribune]]'' in an article on Louisiana politics focusing on the hierarchy of cozy political relationships. ''The Tribune'' described bail bondsman Wiley Fallon of Bossier City as a friend and supporter of Sheriff Dooley, "the law in Bossier Parish," who:​

<blockquote>in turn is a friend and supporter of Governor Edwin Edwards. That's the long-accepted way things work in Louisiana, a state that operates under a political trickle-down theory, beginning with the governor. Just as in the economic trickle-down theory, the political version goes that if the big guns at the top are taken care of, the benefits will eventually reach everyone else down below. In the form, for example, of more hospital rooms. Eventually the power and its benefits, albeit on a much smaller scale, trickle down to the parishes--as the counties are called in Louisiana--to the Vol Dooleys and the Wiley Fallons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-06-02/features/8502040428_1_louisiana-hospital-system-reform-group|title=Clout Southern Style: When It Comes To Politics, Chicago Ain't Got Nothin' On The Pelican State|date=June 2, 1985|publisher=''[[The Chicago Tribune]'']|accessdate=February 28, 2014}}</ref></blockquote>​

<blockquote>in turn is a friend and supporter of Governor Edwin Edwards. That's the long-accepted way things work in Louisiana, a state that operates under a political trickle-down theory, beginning with the governor. Just as in the economic trickle-down theory, the political version goes that if the big guns at the top are taken care of, the benefits will eventually reach everyone else down below. In the form, for example, of more hospital rooms. Eventually the power and its benefits, albeit on a much smaller scale, trickle down to the parishes--as the counties are called in Louisiana--to the Vol Dooleys and the Wiley Fallons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-06-02/features/8502040428_1_louisiana-hospital-system-reform-group|title=Clout Southern Style: When It Comes To Politics, Chicago Ain't Got Nothin' On The Pelican State|date=June 2, 1985|publisher=''[[Chicago Tribune]''|date=1985|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref></blockquote>​

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In his last year as sheriff from 1987 to 1988, Dooley was president of the Northwest Division of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, an agency created under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct federal funds to local and state law enforcement entities with the goal of making them more effective in protecting the citizenry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233247/http://rrdnw.com/History1.htm|title=History of Northwest Law Enforcement Agency|publisher=rrdnw.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}

In his last year as sheriff from 1987 to 1988, Dooley was president of the Northwest Division of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, an agency created under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct federal funds to local and state law enforcement entities with the goal of making them more effective in protecting the citizenry.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221233247/http://rrdnw.com/History1.htm|title=History of Northwest Law Enforcement Agency|publisher=rrdnw.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}

After he left the sheriff's department, Dooley worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> At some time after his term as sheriff ended, Dooley, despite his ties to Edwin Edwards, re-registered as a Republican, as did his successor, Larry Deen.<ref>The voter portal maintained by the Louisiana Secretary of State (then [[Tom Schedler]]) as of August 12, 2014, listed Dooley as a Republican voter and his month and year of birth as January 1927. The portal is kept up to date and upon death, usually within a week or even less of passing, a voter is struck from the listing. This prevents election fraud with "the dead" casting ballots.</ref> Sheriff Julius Whittington, elected in 2011, is also a Republican.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Bossier Parish), October 22, 2011.</ref>​

After he left the sheriff's department, Dooley worked in security for the Port of Shreveport.<ref name=shrtimes/><ref name=statepolice/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.entergy-louisiana.com/content/economic_development/ports/Caddo_Bossier.pdf|title=Caddo-Bossier Port Commission|work=entergy-louisiana.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref> At some time after his term as sheriff ended, Dooley, despite his ties to Edwin Edwards, re-registered as a Republican, as did his successor, Larry Deen.<ref>The voter portal maintained by the Louisiana Secretary of State (then [[Tom Schedler]]) as of August 12, 2014, listed Dooley as a Republican voter and his month and year of birth as January 1927. The portal is kept up to date and upon death, usually within a week or even less of passing, a voter is struck from the listing. This prevents election fraud with "the dead" casting ballots.</ref> Sheriff Julius Whittington, elected in 2011, is also a Republican.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns (Bossier Parish), October 22, 2011.</ref>​

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==Family life==

==Family life==

Two days after Dooley's reelection as sheriff in 1983, he moved out of the home that he had shared with his first wife, Bobbie Katherine Dooley (born 1932), to whom he was married for thirty-one years. Each claimed in a bitter divorce allegations of cruel treatment "which rendered their living together insupportable." Mrs. Dooley claimed that her husband was involved in an affair with his secretary amid the reelection campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851042478So2d564_1928|title=Bobbie Katherine DOOLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vol S. DOOLEY, Jr., Defendant-Appellee., October 30, 1985|work=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Dooley subsequently remarried; his widow is Ruth Lilley Brown Dooley (born 1936), originally from Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and one of five children of James Oda Lilley (1908-1994) and the former Lucille Jewel Greer (1909-1988).​

Two days after Dooley's reelection as sheriff in 1983, he moved out of the home that he had shared with his first wife, Bobbie Katherine Dooley (born 1932), to whom he was married for thirty-one years. Each claimed in a bitter divorce allegations of cruel treatment "which rendered their living together insupportable." Mrs. Dooley claimed that her husband was involved in an affair with his secretary amid the reelection campaign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.leagle.com/decision/19851042478So2d564_1928|title=Bobbie Katherine DOOLEY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Vol S. DOOLEY, Jr., Defendant-Appellee., October 30, 1985|work=leagle.com|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</ref> Dooley subsequently remarried; his widow is Ruth Lilley Brown Dooley (born 1936), originally from Pleasant Hill in Sabine Parish and one of five children of James Oda Lilley (1908-1994) and the former Lucille Jewel Greer (1909-1988).​