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===Bossier Parish politics===

===Bossier Parish politics===

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 ''[[Chicago Tribune|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=''[[Chicago Tribune]''|date=1985|accessdate=July 20, 2020}}</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:|date=June 2, 1985|publisher=''[[Chicago Tribune]]''|author=Mitchell Loein|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}}