Remarks by Heather Edelson
11 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“I know it's been an interesting four years, but I think you've definitely, I think, you know, when people will say their views about you, I'm like, you know, she's been exactly who she said she was the entire time. So I will applaud you on that, truly. And I think that's all we can do is we all bring different perspectives to governments. And if people don't agree with us, we still have to hold our own ground. So I just want to acknowledge that. So on the presentation, and I reviewed the book as well, just a few things. I'm always a big fan of the Be at School work, and you know this, and…”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
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“I was like, I never said that. To be clear, that was not my... But what I will say is the community is very worried. And there's been multiple shootings. And somebody's... I mean, there was gun bullets through somebody's home. So we can move on. But I just would say this is... I'm not saying what population is, because I always say flip it to test it. If somebody said that about Jewish people, I'm Jewish, that would not be okay. You can't be responsible for an entire group of people. But what I will tell you, whether it's gang violence, gun violence, group violence, whatever you want to call…”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
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“Oh, I agree. All Somali people are not responsible here. That's for sure. I completely disagree with that.”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
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“No, I'll talk to Mary offline about anything.”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
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“I'll go. My computer died, which is the whole thing. So I'm going to read off my phone and up here. Okay, so thank you for your work. The computer's throwing me off here a little bit. One second. I think I wrote it down. Okay. Okay, so we had a overall 13% increase rate, 21.4 million, 18 FTEs. With the FTEs, are we, is it specifically going to jails? I think there was for telecommunications as well, right?”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
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“Perfect. Good. And then that's good. I was curious about your people that are on paid leave. Do we have like an overall summary on paid leave? Because it's interesting. It was brought up yesterday and I'm very supportive of the program. I just thought I was just curious how much impact that you guys are seeing with the paid leave program for the Sheriff's Department.”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
- Play at 2:19:02
“Sure. Got it. OK. Well, and so much of what you do is covered by statute. There's ratios, things like that. So philosophically, I was thinking about this last night. I'm looking at other counties where also populated counties like we are across the US. And while crime might be down, you still have ratios, which doesn't drive the budget down. So it's just really interesting, right? It's this whole philosophical idea to get your head around. I was like, well, hold on. So interesting, but then I went and looked, and just the ratios that you have on pretty much everything that you do, and you are…”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
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“Okay, regional gang violence, group violence, whatever. What are we doing?”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Sheriff. I remembered. Oh my gosh! It's working. I'm on, you know, the hormones. It's helping. Okay. So, all right. So, it's interesting because this is where we can say maybe, like, politics are maybe slightly different because I know, like, I thank you, Commissioner Fernando. Maybe flock cameras. Is that what you were thinking when you were referencing it before? Like, no?”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
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“So, okay. So, listen. So, interesting. So, I know flock cameras are up and people are, like, don't necessarily love them. But... And we don't want to share. I'm not pro-sharing with the federal government. But it's interesting, because in Europe, they have CCTV, right? And I just feel like that would be amazing here, that we would be able to have. Because right now, there's been multiple shootings, Half the time we can't catch people. It's like we don't want to lock people up for a long time. That should be all of our goal. But ultimately, we should be able to catch people, intervene so…”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026
- Play at 2:36:02
“Can we get a list of that maybe later on this week? That would be helpful.”
Committee · Oct 8, 2026