Former Sherriff Arrested for Murder of Sherriff-Elect

accessatlanta.com ^ | 11/30/01

[lugsoul]

Got 'im - finally.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Local politics at its finest. Hell, we don't even kill newly elected sheriffs in Cook County so this must be a real rat's nest of corruption.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

We also experienced a corrupt Sheriff while we lived in Texas. Many people literally lived in fear of him for years.

When he was finally defeated, enough evidence was gathered to send him to the Federal Penitentiary. Unfortunately, he pled to a lesser charge of theft under $180,000 and got a light sentence. Those who investigated the story believed he stole over a million dollars.....

We got lucky - our corrupt Sheriff only stole money, he didn't kill....

[katykelly]

I wonder who was killed in the March shoot out?

[Howie]

I wonder if this will be put in the "hate-crime" column? Was the incumbent sheriff white? Just curious.

[lugsoul]

A dealer, they believe.

[lugsoul]

This family, at least. Former Sherriff Dorsey's wife was an Atlanta city councilperson until about three weeks ago, when we voters threw her ass out (the victorious challenger should be watching her back). She is under investigation for using prisoners from her husband's jail to renovate properties owned by political supporters.

[writmeister]

The former sheriff must have also been black. Else, the story would have portrayed the shooting in the obligatory racial hate crime perspective.

[lugsoul]

No - both are black.

[coloradan]

People don't kill people - sheriffs kill people. This is why we need common-sense, reasonable, modest, sheriff-safety legislation.

[mercy]

Faulkner was right. Corruption is the bain of the South. Not that corruption is not found everywhere but it is deeply and firmly ingrained in the deep South. It is palpable still although better than it was in the days of the KKK. The more Northerners that immigrate the better it will get. Yankees may be a pain but generally they do not tollerate cooked cops. Pols maybe, but not cops. (yes, there are exceptions but for every example cited I can cite major arrests of cops in those precincts)

[hgro]

Looks like the law of the jungle doesn't it?

[beckett]

An amazing case. I remember watching on TV shortly after the murder and remarking about the boldness with which Dorsey proclaimed his innocence!

[Ben Chad]

This is excellent news. The Sherriff's office in Dekalb has been a den of corruption. Derwin Brown, a good man, was going to clean the place up. Derwin reminded me of Buford Pusser, Walking Tall Sherriff of McNairy County TN from 1964 to 1970, who tried to rid the county of mob-related corruption. If Dorsey is convicted, he will not be the first Dekalb sheriff to have that distinction. Sheriff Pat Jarvis, former pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and husband of family court judge Gail Flake, was sent to prison for his part in a jail contract kickback scheme. The greater Atlanta area sorely needs a few good men like Buford Pusser and Derwin Brown.

[rushtafarian]

We were living up in the Atlanta area during the time this happened. Derwin Brown was indeed an honest man. The corruption up there starts at the Atlanta mayor's office and heads downward. That idiot has been in more hot water than any fifty lobsters you might have known. The idiot mayor's idiot son's friend was being chased by the Atlanta cops for suspected drug possession, etc. The idiot friend drove up in the idiot mayor's yard and the idiot mayor REFUSED to allow the cops to come on his property to get the idiot kid. Sounds like the type of guy I'd want to run my city, doesn't it to you? Glad to be back in SW FL.

God bless the true patriot.

rushtafarian

[.45MAN]

Maybe we can get a universal safty lock on all Sherrifs'.

[Ben Chad]

I couldn't agree more. It's not just crooked cops. It's also crooked judges and courts that have a penchant to award child custody in divorce cases to pedophiles with deep pockets (cf., this outrageous case that, by golly, has the imprint of Gail Flake). Dekalb County, Cobb County, it's all the same.

[Ben Chad]

Former Sherriff Dorsey's wife was an Atlanta city councilperson until about three weeks ago, when we voters threw her ass out (the victorious challenger should be watching her back).

Warms my heart. With voters like you, maybe there is hope.

[Clemenza]

The more Northerners that immigrate the better it will get.

Be careful what you wish for and consider yourself luck that most transplants to Texas come from the midwest. Transplants from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, etc. took over much of South Florida 25 years ago and it has been a left-wing hell hole ever since. I will take corruption over communism any day of the week. :-)

--- Transplanted Yankee

[Diddle E. Squat]

Huh? Ever heard of Philly, NYC, Newark, Boston, Baltimore, DC, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago? And you have the gall to insinuate that the South is more corrupt? The mob is nowhere near as entrenched in the South as the north. Sure there are exceptions, and to an extent corruption is a problem everywhere, but your statement is pretty ignorant.