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So did your locale vote your Sheriff out of office? If not, why not? Why wasn’t the deputy ever charged and why was he allowed to keep his job? Your story gives very little detail which leads me to believe there may be more to the story than you are remembering perhaps?"
Too many voters receive their incomes directly or indirectly from government and sympathize with their rackets and the control that they have over them. Some animals are more equal than others.
OpenSecrets.org American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees [
State/County/Municipal Employees]
[Total Contributions:] [$93,830,657 [To Repubs & Conservs:] $92,879,550 [to Dems & liberals $658,305
[Pct to Dems & liberals:] 99% [Pct to Repubs & Conservs:] 1%
Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think) National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
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...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."
On political discussion boards, their noisy bandwagons and cults of personality welcome true private sector voters to shut up.
So what you are saying is that your locale is a bastion of corruption, and the voters didn’t care about the issue involving the deputy & the inmate. Thus the voters deserve the Sheriff Dept. they have. Somehow then that becomes a problem with the police. You need to rethink who really deserves the blame.