YOU OUGHTTA KNOW...
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The passage of Pierce County Charter Amendment No. 1
“Election of Sheriff” places the Sheriff in a unique
position. When the final vote was taken during the charter commission meetings, 2006 Charter Review Commissioner Ken Dolan (Council District 6, Pos 3) made it a point to have entered into the meeting minutes as public record the fact that the Sheriff holding office on the effective date of the amendment may choose to serve as Sheriff until a successor is elected and commences to serve. Commissioner Dolan questioned the attorneys supplied by the prosecuting attorneys office extensively regarding the powers, duties and responsibilities of the interim Sheriff and was assured, and it is part of the charter review commission record, that the Sheriff in place when the charter amendment is certified becomes Sheriff pro-tem and is answerable to the people as if he/she were elected. The next two years will see Sheriff Paul Pastor serving as Pierce County’s Sheriff pro-tem - not as an appointed sheriff who is answerable to the Executive. The passage of Pierce County Charter Amendment No. 8 “Balance of Power” further effects elected positions within the county by reducing the administrative power of the County Executive over other elected executive departments. |
AND DON'T FORGET:
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Pierce County is ranked
#1 for violent crime in the state of Washington
The Pierce County
Sheriff's Department is tied for 2nd
lowest staffed law enforce-ment agency in the state
at 1 officer per 1,333 citizens
Pierce County is the only county in the state, and one
of only fourteen counties
in the
entire U.S. with an appointed Sheriff
67% of the felons in
the Pierce County system committed their first felony
offense outside of Pierce County, though when released from
jail were/are not sent back to their county of origin
but instead
are literally let out
the back door and released into our communities
Pierce County prosecutes nearly three times the number of felons than does King County
which is three times the size of Pierce and
has three times the number of prosecutors |
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Pierce
County taxpayers and voters have the power to change
this.