A sheriff can promote his agency any way he sees fit. If you don't like it, vote against him but NO it is not your business to tell him how to utilize his manpower.
Im sure he can promote his agency as he sees fit. Lets see to it that the record reflects that this video doesn't reflect the views of others on his agency, the ones who did not participate in this video. Or maybe this video does represent the entire agency, because this is what they advertise correct? I can go to the Howard County Police Department website and see what they advertise... a professional, up and coming, motivated law enforcement agency. I can go to Baltimore County Police and Baltimore City Police and watch videos of cops doing exciting stuff in the course of their duties. Then, we go back to the "advertisement" that Calvert Sheriff just ran for all to see on the internet, which included the Sheriff himself and a depute running radar and some random woman singing about seductive pat downs that are going to be given out by deputies. Maybe they will play the video during the next civil lawsuit where the victim alleges inappropriate touching by a deputy (not that they'd do something like that, but this video does imply that if someone tries hard enough they can get it too). I bet it won't be funny then.
It is his right as an elected public official to do what he sees fit within reason with his manpower allocations? Within reason, is the key term. Apparently, some public officials think that its ok to just have their employees do whatever they come up with, like in Anne Arundel County where the cops had to change colostomy bags of the county executive, which resulted in scandal. Or maybe the ones who were ordered to pull over the news reporters that were following Jack Johnson's SUV in Prince Georges County, and you see how that ended, federal prison. Then there was the Ocean City PD K-9 police scandal, which spurred more tales where cops were ordered to shovel snow from officials driveways and other ridiculous chores. DC officials think its ok to station fire apparatus on every corner in the summer time in hopes it will reduce crime, as the trucks sit there and burn up fuel idling throughout the night. Taxpayers money quite literally up in smoke!
Its the citizens job and the freedom of speech granted to me under the powers of human rights and the United States constitution that allow me to post said video in this forum and let those out there decide for themselves, to see what their local sheriffs departments are up to, and let them decide for themselves if this is what they want as a law enforcement service in Calvert County, Maryland. Your right, the citizens can decide with voting, and or citizens can also decide with their voices of dissent in public forums such as this. This video, I assure you is just the beginning. I recently saw when I researched more videos involving law enforcement in southern maryland more people involved in the cop watch activities, where they film police on their traffic stops, and throughout the course of their daily activities.
I like when people say "crime is down." I think the citizens know better than that. "Crime is down" usually equals reports aren't taken or classified properly. Lets face it, the ghetto didn't burn down overnight. Law enforcement simply finds ways to classify crime differently, watering it down, jurisdiction to jurisdiction to give the "impression" to the taxpayer that they are doing well and things are swell. They hide what they can, and other things simply get re-arranged for the numbers games. Law enforcement can choose not to make drug arrests or weapon arrests, and manipulate statistics to seem as if people aren't engaging in criminal activity. Homicides are usually a numbers game too, due to the fact that the statistics don't account for improvements in modern medicine etc..
So with all of that being said, i'll be sure to continue to check the internet for more of this advertising that their agency is doing, as this is definately headed in an interesting direction. With several of them starring in music video's, it makes me wonder what the rest of them do at work, with uniforms, emergency vehicles, taxpayer gas, and other equipment all day and night. I wonder if their next video will have them on film at a strip club or something!
what girl doesn't already believe that?
