but that internal police report includes text messages that were allegedly sent between chad perkins and the girl in question after perkins appears to have admitted bragging to one of his friends about his, quote, relationship with her. the girl according to this internal report writes to perkins, quote, i'm sure you left out the part where you were on duty and i was drunk. he responds to that, quote, i'm sorry. now it's a local police chief who has asked the republican speaker of the missouri house to investigate this matter. and, you know, maybe that's a nice change from the federal prosecutors bringing dozens of felony charges against one of your members and another of your members having his kids come to you to tell you that he physically and sexually abused them. maybe it's a nice change of pace for this third one to be just a police chief asking you to please handle these allegations against yet another one of your members in this same session. this time, in the words of the police chief's report, quote, accepting sexual favors from a teenage girl while on duty as a police offic