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Monday, April 7, 2008
For safety’s sake, let’s all get along
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Recently, Sheriff Victor Hill denied Clayton County Police Department detectives access to tools they need to solve crimes, such as mug shots, interviewing and taking photographs of jailed suspects. After a negative media blitz, the sheriff reversed his decision.
As per news reports, Hill plans to form a burglary task force and wants access to CCPD statistics in exchange for cooperation.
Even though Hill can retrieve statistics via county computers at any time, Police Chief Jeff Turner turned over six months worth of burglary reports. In return, the sheriff’s office now requires CCPD to fill out paperwork in order to enter the jail.
As a former homicide detective, Hill knows the importance of teamwork amongst law enforcement agencies in order to solve crimes.
However, as of last Friday, Hill was picking and choosing who would be allowed into the jail based upon how much information they provide to him about the cases they are working on, according to the CCPD.
“Sheriff Hill says that he has the citizens’ best interest at heart, but his actions are contrary to his words,” states Chief Turner.
Toss in the recently filed Pink Pony federal lawsuit that could cost Clayton taxpayers millions of dollars more in settlements and legal fees, along with a second ethics violation filed against Hill last week for alleged misappropriation of funds, and one has to wonder what’s going on over at the Justice Center. None of these actions are in the citizens’ best interests.
Let’s just pray that these choices do not affect public safety, and that no criminals inadvertently beat the system over nonsense. Don’t we have enough drama going on in this county as it is?
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