New Cruisers or Not? A heated debate went on between the sheriff and the county’s commissioners on Thursday over whether or not the Sheriff’s department should receive money for new police cruisers and new deputies. Sheriff Gus Dicesari feels that, unless given the money, the lives of the people of the county will be in jeopardy.
Commission President, Anne Chen, feels the exact opposite. She claimed that the county had a budget for the year of 1$26 million dollars and that the county already put $30 million dollars into a new prison due to lack of space in the old one. Commission members, Anita Shenuski and Raymond Laybourne,
disagreed with her. Shenuski said,” We never had problems until we began letting migrants come to this county to work. They are a problem to our law enforcement, our schools, and our healthcare system. They take away jobs from decent people and work for next to nothing and if something gets stolen, you can bet that it is one of them that has taken it. We need to protect local residence from them.” Chen denied that immigrants were the problem. She explained how immigrants were hard working people that took the jobs no one else wanted and that by blaming them people were just being hypercritical.
Over all the county did not have the $580,000 dollars that the sheriff’s department needed. A suggestion was made to help the problem with the old police cruisers. Chen said that instead of taking the cruisers home the deputies should just leave them at the station to keep from adding more miles to the vehicles. After a 5-2 vote the request for the money was denied. Thus the sheriff’s department would have to wait to get new police cruisers and hire new deputies until next year.
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