| | <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> | | <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> |
| − | 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=July 20, 2020}} |