Galveston County politics: Police union calls out Magistrate Judge John Melcher on social media in ongoing bond battle [Video]

GALVESTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Galveston County magistrate judge was left stunned after he was called out on social media by a police union that’s upset with the amount of defendants allowed out of jail.

The fight is between a local police union and Magistrate Judge John Melcher, whom Galveston Municipal Police Association president Anthony Rogers said “has literally the same criminal legal law background experience as my dog does.”

“When his dog is able to take the hundred and hundreds of hours of training that I’ve been through and pass all of those tests and meet all of the qualifications that have been set forth by the state, then I guess the commissioners’ court could consider that if they chose to do so,” Melcher responded.

Over the weekend, the Galveston Municipal Police Association shared a statement and images of Melcher on its social media, blaming him for allowing too many defendants to get out of jail without paying a penny.

“The …