Law Enforcement Committee - Regular Meeting

She had her life settled in such a way that she could do what Miss Jennifer wanted to do. So some of us will be leaning at the door of the court to break his side of the face and hope that some sheriff will make us move on. but I want to publicly thank Jennifer for the years of service and UU for what she gave to me and our department and it was really precious I have to say that he changed our department of 180 degrees and he put us back in the carriage and uh, Candace arrived and uh, we welcomed her and she took us like a duck in the water until now Frank hasn't kicked her out yet so, but uh, we want to welcome her and uh uh, Jennifer is still uh, she's still a bit unrecalled So it will come and go as we go forward.

And maybe in a couple of years he will want to become a commissioner. I don't know.

I think he could escape politics. Probably enough of what I did, but you never know. Today our... I was sitting here and I was sending messages back and forth with Mrs. Tammi, so I have some somewhat conflicting accounts here. But our list is Jennifer or Tammi, they are saying that her current list up to a minute ago It was 320, one of these reports shows 358 and there is an error somewhere in our system that makes the repartition and it could be that some people are in extended confinement through programs and that in reality they may not be in prison at this time. But anyway, Mrs. Tammi just sent me a message and we are at 320 with living bodies in the building. It's a good one, we're still working on it. So far we are still at a good, manageable and constant pace with the population. And so I'm not afraid of anything at this moment. Questions regarding the population for this return?

Have you heard anything about the cats?

I didn't hear any dogs. The small prison for dogs down there seems quite isolated, so...

I was hoping it would be like this.

I receive more information from the waste transfer station than from the control of the animals down there. But that is a very beautiful structure and the analogy of that structure is incredible compared to our prison. They have a small area of ​​dismantling, they have a small area of ​​traps to search and purify. And I'm not trying to say something negative, but it's organized, it's a bit like the prison, in a very nice way, but it's a nice structure.

There's a way that... I know that you know, like when you see on TV that animals can... ...hide criminals. There's a way in which the animal shelter can help you down there.

The best way in which an animal shelter can help me is to stay there and I stay on my side of the parking lot.

I just wanted to see if any of them could be on the street.

No, our days. Honestly, the days of dogs or the forces of order would not have convinced me, but my crystal ball has not disappointed me yet. But our days with dogs are rapidly decreasing due to courts and dangers. There is still an anti-drug dog and when that dog falls, I will be out of the dogs' circle. their maintenance and federal regulations are so expensive for drivers and I like that these other agencies have them and call them instead of having them all and always having to be called. So, sometimes it puts us in a situation of responsibility. The highway patrol will end up calling my unit at different times of the day and there is a jurisprudence on the times of response. And I don't want my deputy to get involved in someone else's drama, but a search dog or some search dogs are still fine. It's something I could consider for the future, but with fentanyl and these synthetic drugs, now I would hate to kill an anti-drug dog for 10,000 dollars. I've already had a couple of employees who were accidentally exposed and had a overdose during the inquiries and things like that. But yes, you never know, there could be a good follow-up or something like that that was delivered down there and that

Forse quando Jackie lo chiedeva pensavo a quando si vedono in tv nelle prigioni dove lavorano con i cani. Il che fa sentire meglio il prigioniero.

Sì, non sono in quel settore, signor De Weiss.

Voglio portarli a spasmo.

I don't want animals in my house. So we are not equipped for this and I know that there is a lot of stuff on TV and these sheriffs are really good at capturing political things.

As if you had a trustee or something like that if they wanted to help.

Yes, now we had detainees who worked to control the animals. You know, they have a lot to manage and I think that many of these department heads have come to the point where they have difficulty keeping up with the tasks they are carrying out. And I think they have some responsibility with the detainees. And you know, for years we did it at the city store and you know, the woman came to pick up the detainees. They came to pick up two trucks loaded every morning, but they cut everything.

Yes, I remember everything.

Yes, but you know, if an animal calls us to check... of the animals of our county and needs help. We have staff that we will send there to help us, but I don't know if they want someone there every day. But if they want it, I'll send it. They haven't done anything sad yet. We'll do it. You did it years ago. Well, yes, there are still a lot of... there are still a lot of trusted work teams going on, but there are only a few departments and agencies that no longer participate, as they did before, because they don't want to stand in the way of the detainees. They don't want to have to look around to see the family members arrive and bring this and that and visit them and let them, or in particular, escape, but...

This could be a therapy for some people.

Well, this also creates... Take a detainee who bites. the dog outside the building of animal control, then they will be masters of the... of the county. So... I... I mean, let's fight with the battle every day somewhere. But yes, I know that everyone sees it and I was very impressed by it and I'm just a kind of stone heart, I guess. But I'm not very interested in the products that make us feel good and what brought us where we are. So it's time for people to straighten up, get to work and go back to society. Otherwise, if I go to work with you, I'll end up with that speech. I think in the last meeting we talked about our conditioners. As far as I know, everything works correctly. Let's cross our fingers for now. had to do some maintenance in the back during this last little period of heat but so far I have returned today in front it seems that everything is going well and we are moving forward now the next phase will be to keep the heating on here that will arrive we have our motorcycles One has already come out to work this weekend. And yesterday I met the deputy sheriffs who will be in the units. motorized. Chief Watkins, Major Robertson and I have examined the areas of the county where we have more problems. I would like to say to the people who are watching, Mother Road, Blaine, Chapel Road, McBride's Branch up to 280 and through Pocahontas up to the border of the county of Warren, all Maple Springs, Fredonia, Ragstall, Asbury, Perry Plains and Belmont and Mount View. These will be our main starting points for work. We want to advertise that these guys are out. You know, Vice-Sheriff Crabtree stopped one of them, I think, this weekend and said, you know, I didn't know you had one. So we will make a press release on them and we will also make a press release on the import of our fines for excess speed and other fines related to traffic. so that the public can assimilate it, have conversations with our children and the family. I received a call last night from some people on Highway 53, which is a public road, but this super-super-excessive speed, and you know, I'm back there, usually I don't receive sheriff's, usually I'm not in the fine sector, but since our county is growing, our population is increasing, and we have these people who come here, Sto solo ricevendo più reclami e quando iniziano a pagare alcuni di questi 300-400 euro di recitazioni, la voce si spargerà. But I clearly told the deputies that we are not interested in a quota, we are not interested in extorting taxes, we are interested in slowing them down. I gave them a threshold of what we are observing. All the roads of the county are at 55 km less than they are marked. Let's give a little time or an area of ​​tolerance there. But you know, you can have a road at 55 km, material, like Norton's Branch or Lawrence Branch or something like that. 55mph on those roads are too dangerous for the conditions, stagecoach road and things like that, but...

I received a call last week on the side of the county of Carter Blake Road and then Short Springs.

Down there.

So I know they'll get there in the end, but...

But they will be out there. I talked to them for safety. These guys went to school on these bikes. They have been riding motorcycles all their lives. They are very kind. We have already organized several events for different things. Demonstrations and stories that have arrived. So it's a multi-form initiative. I wanted to try it. today we have difficulty driving on the road of the county with these vehicles at full traction compared to what we did before but motorcycles will help us in this there will be moments when the agents will work together overlapping shifts one day the other day so they can in a way enter the school areas obviously You know, most of our school areas are on state preferential courses. The highway patrol tried to help us with the school areas. I know that yesterday we had a very tragic incident in Tulloma, so... so... You, police officers, will probably receive conversations, calls and concerns about... There is always that. Sometimes there are only tragic incidents, but the school areas are a problem. We just want to have enough staff to put everything and this and that, but it's not realistic. But this is just one thing we have to do and it will depend on the weather conditions. I don't expect a vice-sheriff to go on a bike when it rains and there are 18 degrees and things like that, but he will help with funeral escorts. You know, we are still one of the few containers around that still offer that service. Many people have stopped doing it. But if you see them around, do you receive calls about them? Yes, they are here. One has been redrawn and assigned. The other is in operation.

So is there someone who is traveling with us now?

Yes, it's one of them.

Is he working with the patrol now?

Yes, they are doing everything they would do in a patrol, except for the fact that they have, you know, the radar certification and they have the radar on board.

They haven't finished the line.

The motorcycle was not able to finish some work, but I hope that in a week and a half or two weeks it will be delivered to the deputy sheriff. But one of them is actually working today.

The senior awareness program I was talking about met some staff members.

I waited on purpose because of the elections And who will come, who will go, who will win, who will lose, who could go here and there, it's the staff. So the administrative staff is changing and all this movement and I didn't want to start launching a new program on the staff until we calmed down after the long September, but yesterday I had a small meeting and we will go on. I saw that the police department of the city of Manchester adopted the program and I am grateful. And congratulations to Captain Floyd for being united in my political creation with this proposal. It seems to work in many places, but we will go to find the old citizens of the county. I have already received some requests for help from some interested parties to help or to participate.

How will you start the program?

can require families or people who live alone or elsewhere in the county to be included in the list of calls. A lady, actually two ladies, came to me to talk to the elderly citizens. They told me they would have liked to be included in that list because they live alone in the county. Families don't have direct contacts and don't have much communication with the outside world. And they said, yes, I don't mind a call every morning to make sure I didn't fall into the tub.

Or, if we don't mind, there are other phases.

If, because of what they agree to, some give the keys to their houses that would be kept in prison. and they have the right to enter their house if they don't answer the call or they don't open the door. Once we are there to check how they are, you know, to enter physically and check how they are. It happens so often that these elderly people fall and stay there for 24-48 hours or even more. And sometimes it's tragic.

And no one takes care of them.

No one takes care of them, and it's incredible how many people in our county live alone. I mean, my mother is alone in a remote corner of the county, even though I have a sister who lives next door. But you know, she works all day and does her things, and my other sister is in Murfreesboro and does her things, and... You know, I'm busy and I'm not the best son to go out every day. Yes, but... My mother didn't call me. Yes, but you know, someone can go out in the garden when it's hot to pick branches or something like that, to warm up. But anyway, this is a courtesy call. We will also organize a place where agents can go out and check how they are doing and make answers and things like that. So I'm pretty excited about this. We do a lot for children and now it's time to do something for our elders. Yes. Apart from this, I have the lady who goes with me, I don't have much else. Yes, the lady, Baker, talked about marijuana laws with THC, stuff like that with cake, with messy cake, but we started. The law has been changed since July and deals with certain levels of THC and products based on Kratom. We have sent a notice to all the stores of the Contea We actually conducted undercover operations entering shops with minors and things like that who buy these electronic cigarettes with THC. Is it a big problem in the school system? The school system contacted us asking for help and the investigators of the narcotic divisions worked with us when they could. There are still unknowns at the federal level. If the president moves it down, that is, he moves marijuana or THC from a table 1 to a table 3, 4, 5 at the federal level, then this is handed over to the FDA for medical purposes and this will change everything. But it seems that in the last two years Tennessee has taken the opposite direction from the rest of the country, where most states are legalizing it. The tennis player is going backwards and is reversing the wheel on many things that allowed it to fall. And now we are already seeing new products come out to turn the coradium and the marijuana but it is still a kind of synthetic product. And there are so many that state laboratories are not able to test it and, you know, you have to go to private laboratories and things like that. But we are aware of it. We are working on those things. It is a question. You know, about 50% of citizens want it to be legalized and the other 50% do not want to do anything about it. in the past I have testified to the state parliament about we have some legislators in our area who have been in favor of the marijuana therapeutic purpose but I have never been in favor of the smokable stuff it's just an excuse to make a fool of yourself pills and other similar forms I will let the experts say it but You know, this fentanyl and other synthetic drugs are killing us right now. Is there anything else I want to talk about with you? We hear a lot about the Flock cameras. Someone. We had Flock cameras and I said it in the past. We don't have them anymore. I have seen and investigated some things. Obviously my people are angry with me for this. And as sheriff I have sworn loyalty to the Constitution. I swore to protect the citizens from what they consider a violation of their civil rights. When I started asking questions, investigating on some things that were happening and hearing other things from all over the country, my antennas straightened. And I went personally to disassemble our Flock cameras. Two. You know, I didn't have enough, but one is more than most people's desires.

I have to say this.

In my 34 years, it was probably the best tool to solve and fight the crime that I have never seen come out. But what worries me is that even today I can't hear anything from the Flood Corporation or from other officials of the forces of order in the whole country about what happens to the data. Are we being used as a channel for monetization or to be monetized? Yes, it captures everything. reads tags, but also captures images of cars, images of terns, bulldozers and people. We had a 30-day deadline in which those data were released. Well, it doesn't matter if it was 30 days or 30 seconds. Those data go to something or someone and no one had the flocking to explain to me or offer to me or anyone else in the TNC state what the procedure is here. There are much more intelligent people than me who are working on it. I know that going forward this General Assembly, the member of the Congress, Burcett, has already deposited a bill to Congress relating to this. I think some of these are just a bit hard and impulsive. But it's not for me. You know, TBI... We are all. We solved a big case last week with this. Just because we don't have it doesn't mean that someone else has it. I mean, we did it through another county. It solved a lot of cases of missing people, of missing children. There is a lot of wrong information on the internet, but there are also a lot of... information about it. But I want you to know that the citizens know that the sheriff's office is out of Flock's business. I suspended the account. There is a repayment procedure, but I told the staff that when we started receiving all these stupid requests, foia and this and that, we don't have enough madness like that. It seems to me that we are very transparent about everything. We used it a lot for the amusements and we managed to remove a lot of amusements from the streets, but above all a lot of stolen vehicles, missing people. This week we had a guy who left his car abandoned in the lake and we didn't know that his phone rang in the lake. We didn't know if he was killed. He was an Uber driver driving a rental car. We spent the whole weekend following him and we found him in Manchester through the city's Flock cameras and we were able to discover his movements. But I have to say this, we posted a post on Facebook and we found out that our emergency services had transported him, he had used a false name and he was at the Arton hospital. So for sure he's just a little eccentric. But we didn't know what we had and we had to treat it as if we were working on a homicide, but the innovation and the Flock technology helped us to identify.

Do all your vehicles have cameras?

For the most part yes, but they don't, they're just recording. Or when they turn them on with their blue lights and things like that. This is just the old standard technology, but Flock keeps everything.

Do they wear cameras?

I don't have wearable cameras. It's just another problem. This is coming. I have been carefully examined. They are one of the few in circulation that we have. I don't want them. And I won't take them. Until we are forced to do it by law. All those who have them would like a name taken. because they are used against you, they do not get fragments, they take them together, the media put them together in this and that, I only have cameras for vehicles, we have the audio, but there are a lot of problems with wearable cameras and they are not used not right here, but in many other places. This is something that would end up with daily requests for access to information for these podcasters, youtubers and aspiring journalists. They use us with reality shows and they earn us It's all here. They are the ones who earn us. So I'm not providing, I'm not putting my vices out there as advertising posters, ambulances for people who are monetized on the internet. This is what you are given in large part. And you, there are thousands of them. of these people who run around the reviewer of the first amendment, okay, they have been in prison, they can do anything. Fortunately we have some good people here who understand it, but there are people from all over the country who, you know, are placing themselves in front of the residences of the governors, they are placing themselves at the gates and they are just tickling you. and they push you to the limit. It's just a distraction made on purpose to get you into a conflict. And there are many agents of the forces of order who have lost their jobs because of them and because of these agitators. That's how I call them. But this is just another thing, if we had them, once The media know you have them, you should take one for me. You should probably take a minimum of two people to do nothing but monitor the requests that would come to us later through Eder. It would take us all day, every day. And then you have to see them, modify them, censor them. Then you have to see what comes back, rule 16 of the rules on the trials, what is in discussion in the criminal court that you cannot produce. And as soon as I say that I can't produce it, then they have something to hide. Well, no, it's because of the discoveries in the criminal courts. So I say that it is better and I am grateful to the citizens of the Coffey County that we have not reached the point where we have no longer had problems with the juries who believed us in our testimonies. And if one of us, me or our people, is wrong, then we are in trouble. The wearable cameras only cause more problems than they are worth. And if you do the right thing, you won't worry about it. I don't just want to go around and record.

And this is what is being done.

He saved a lot of money. He saved many forces of order, but... It happened especially in the big cities where philosophies and values are different from those of the rural zones of Tennessee. and it was also used as a stamp as if artificial intelligence was a way to deceive our society because then you know if I say tell me what is the square of this and this and this and this or this and this or tell me what is the chemistry of this this and this this will make our children no longer use the brain it will be everything it will be all artificial intelligence And then they take those videos, they send them through an artificial intelligence and then they put them all on social media and they have completely modified and changed them. I mean, there are videos, you know, if you apply for a charge, people will take your words and trap your words and then they trap your image and they can make a movie about you in a place where you have never been and that is dangerous, what is coming. But anyway, the gregge, we don't have it. And I will not bring it back, nor will I have anything to do with it until we have those safeguards in there, or until the climate and the trust of people will return. But at this moment this is something that I have never seen go on, I mean, this thing has gone to pieces. And the sheriff's office of the county of Los Angeles has killed its program in California, they have killed it in California, what do you care, what do you care? So my homologues in the Knox County had planned to get 300 cameras for the church in the next five years. And it's all suspended. So...

So what do you have now in schools, like high schools or something else? Do you have metal detectors or something like that while people pass by? I don't.

I don't have any. In the future, it's coming.

And there was a company that once pushed a lot for everyone.

From what I was told, there are some... I'm coming in the near future. This year. From what I was told. But I'll leave the school system to deal with them. And how he intends to proceed. So, you know, yesterday, this week, the other yesterday, I had two consecutive episodes that broke out and this is that. I don't know why these guys do what they do. You know, last year we had a pretty quiet year, but this year has just begun. And there was nothing. It was just threats of weapons and shooting at school and things like that. And that one? Yes, we had two, all in the same afternoon. And it started spinning. But there was no threat. They were just stupid words. and no weapon involved or anything. I mean, if it's something serious, we'll find out quite quickly and we'll say it openly. But, you know, our boys from the high school here have... done a good job in protecting themselves and, in short, how many students are there now?

Probably 1100 or more, 1500... You know, the percentage, you know, is pretty good compared to...

How many people are you free to watch in your 3,000? 700,000? So there are 729 in the state of Tennessee. We will therefore have an average of 3,000 people in some form of freedom, watch or conditional in the coffee count on a population of more or less 55,000. If you look at the percentages, I think we're in. Yes, so yes. But that's where I am today. And I'll be happy to answer any other concerns or questions, but I wanted to raise the block issue with you. Yes, we people want to know. Well, you have approved them. No, you didn't have to approve them based on the program they were on. It was on what they call that the General Assembly approved and we bought them through that and I simply bought them to put two on them to enter the system to use them we haven't had them for a long time but I went personally on the truck and I took them the flock took them

I think it would be a good thing to emphasize again to our children the fact of making threats. I saw on the news that at school some threats were made and a child can ruin his life, ruin his whole life.

Jackie, what happened to you when you were little? Did you do something? What did mom and dad do to you? Did you think that this would make you a better person today? Yes. Think, think. Do you think that everything that is happening today?

All they had to do was talk to me and tell me that they shouldn't frustrate me.

Did you have enough respect if your mother looked at you? Do you think it still happens today?

I don't think so.

Do you think that little Johnny or Susie ever knew what a cherry tree is? And I am Draconian. Can I tell you what Betty Parton did to me? She hit me with anything that happened to her.

Mine was a belt. Yes. We didn't have so many rings.

Yes, a belt would have been nothing.

What my mother did, generally did, if it was really serious. Wait for the weekend, dad would have taken you too.

The time I went to Jimmy Parton, I was between the third and the last year of high school, I will never forget it. It was the weekend of Memorial Day. All my friends ran around and went to Starwood's concerts. Me and him were putting corner balls. And it was hot. And I told him something inappropriate on the side, you know, on straightening that pole or on how to do this or that. And the next thing I found out was that I was on the ground. And I saw the chrome bats. You know what chrome bats are waiting for? Some people call them stars. I call them chrome bats that fly around. And there was a brief period of my life in which I was in space, in space. but a square pointed blade on your back shows you those chrome spots. And that was the last time I crossed it.

I promise.

The last time.

I've never reached that point, thank God.

At the time I was pretty healthy, but he made me understand right away that it didn't matter how old I was or how old he was, he would have simply taken a bigger stick.

Well, I grew up two before me, so I hadn't seen what could have happened. I knew it wasn't like that.

But you know, I'm not saying that it starts at home, it's just that unfortunately society has turned into a society in which you expect teachers to take care of it, you expect them to deal with the police, you expect them to deal with penitentiary institutions and prisons, or that psychologists and consultants deal with it. It starts in the uterus. Do you want other philosophical ideas from me today? Start at home.

Well, I will miss all this.

I want to thank you for your service and I will never forget our special moment together. That first balance, Dwight. You and Bobby Bryant took the time to come and sit with me. And we did things that had never been done before. And this has changed our world. And Dwight. You have always held the rope tight. And we must have it. You know, we office workers and department heads will come with what we want, we want, we want, we want. Some will give, they will give, but it's always nice to have someone who says, wow, wait a minute. And this keeps the balance in balance.

And it takes a lot of balance.

There must be a balance, but I must say that as a sheriff just elected in that period I learned. What did you expect? I was able to learn what the county was able to do. I always thought that everything I did in terms of money for the employees or something else I wanted to happen to everyone. Assurances and things like that are all expensive. But Dwight, thank you for serving us with you and for dedicating some time to us. And you always had to say things that sometimes people didn't want to say or were afraid to say, but you had to say them and... But this is what made you successful in everything you did. And I appreciate the fact that you came with us to search. I remember, I will never forget, when we went to the West Tennessee and we went back to your old hometown, we saw a program that was probably the most successful program in the region. All the people I met.

We have been doing it for several years.

I had one, I had one there for more than two years now. and you transformed that young man. He let him in.

He sent him away from here?

Yes, our sheriff put him in that program. He was sentenced to 8 years of hard prison. We had him here and one day I pulled him in and I said, you have to get out of the Coffey county. You have to get out of this environment. He went out there and did... Money, working and paying his debts, the maintenance of children, taxes, fines and he has settled his... Yes, he has settled his life. Here it is. It is a program of great success.

All those we met. Happy with the program.

And I wanted to stay on the internet. And sometimes you just have to recharge and transfer them. Sometimes, sometimes really, sometimes different paths are better, better. The environment can cause great changes in both senses. Yes, but that's all I have.

I was about to say to Dwight Harrisburg. I wanted to tell you to repeat what the sheriff said. Thank you for serving in this council. You have been very useful and we will miss you. We will miss you in this council.

I'm sure we will miss you.

Come back and sit down whenever you want. We appreciate you. Can we still talk? I have no right to vote.

You can still talk in public. Now you have a three-minute limit.

Well, I found out. Come to the meetings of the August committee and start talking.

I'll just start talking. Don't do it.

You know it better than that.

that we appreciate will be missing in this council and in the commission other questions for the sheriff we move on to the report of the judicial commissioner and we will have to move on to an executive session because of a I can be fired?

yes sheriff what would you like to do Mrs. Candace? must remain or executive session?

a vote I hope I stay here

A vote, so we all have to go out while you...

Yes, probably, because we need her. Any second. Right. What will you do? To have a quick executive session. And then I need her to write it in the notes. So she shouldn't want us to vote. Thank you. We have to do it, it will be in the video, it should be done legally.

Well, we have to stop the video.

Because it's a matter of observance of the employees.

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