Sarasota Police Department puts fewer people in jail

For the past two years, the Sarasota Police Department put fewer people in jail. It is a pattern for the past 26 months. In February 2009, SPD jailed 369 people. In February 2010, it jailed 169 people, a drop of more than half.

The Sarasota Sheriff’s Office, in the same period showed an increase to 559 admissions, compared to 529 in 2009. North Port Police showed a decrease as did the Venice Police Department, but none of the seven organizations show the dramatic decline of the SPD.


http://sarasota.patch.com/articles/sarasota-police-arrests-fall-and-fall-further

Good observation. Just curious does that number include the hundreds of arrests that SPD officers make a year on local Sarasota county warrants? I know every time our squad looks up our arrests on the county website our arrests have jail deputies listed as the arresting officers when the arrests are warrants. if that is the case, SPD should get the arrest credit and shame on the SSO for taking the arrests just because they execute the warrant.
The SSO can execute the warrants while still giving the arresting officers the credit. SPD officers have to write an internal PCA for every warrant arrest we make. Did you check with the Sarasota Police Department to get their annual arrest stats or are you basing this post on ONE source, The SARASOTA SHERIFF'S OFFICE stats. If so please do your due diligence before making these statements.
If you did, and these numbers are accurate, it's probably because SPD and the city are crushing the patrol and CID officers' morale and spirit.

Deputies, by law, serve warrants. State and City Police assist them. Unless you go to a judge and have a warrant issued on your case, the Deputies get the credit.

Who cares, we all know why the arrests are down. Don't blow smoke up every ones ass. The command staff and city hall know why it's down to. We make the arrests we have to, but we don't make any proactive arrests any more. It's plain and simple, look at the writting on the wall. MORAL IS A DIRECT RESULT OF LEADERSHIP. Enough said!!!!

It's not an "us v. them" issue. Instead, it's a statutory issue i.e. I think that only a deputy sheriff can execute a warrant or serve papers. Municipal officers can't do that stuff. It's Florida law, that's all.


Who cares, we all know why the arrests are down. Don't blow smoke up every ones ass. The command staff and city hall know why it's down to. We make the arrests we have to, but we don't make any proactive arrests any more. It's plain and simple, look at the writting on the wall. MORAL IS A DIRECT RESULT OF LEADERSHIP. Enough said!!!!

Eggzactly! :?

Just because a deputy has to execute the warrant doesn't mean the deputy should get the credit for the arrest. If an officer locates, arrests, and transports a prisoner to the jail why does the jail deputy or road deputy who happens to be there get the credit or stat because he/she put their name on the warrant. That is BS and you all know it. A deputy can execute the warrant and the arresting officer can still get the arrest stat. Why would the county do that and give SPD, NPPD, and VPD credit when they can have the officer do all the work of locating, arresting and transporting and then a deputy busy doing something else just signed a warrant and the SSO civilian employee lists the deputy as arresting instead of just executing it.
If officers can't be listed as arresting officers simply because they can't execute the warrant, then officers shouldn't be allowed to make these arrests. Oh wait, officers do have the authority to arrest people for active warrants, so let's give them the credit instead of pretending executing a warrant and being the arresting officer is one in the same because it is not.

Just because a deputy has to execute the warrant doesn't mean the deputy should get the credit for the arrest. If an officer locates, arrests, and transports a prisoner to the jail why does the jail deputy or road deputy who happens to be there get the credit or stat because he/she put their name on the warrant. That is BS and you all know it. A deputy can execute the warrant and the arresting officer can still get the arrest stat. Why would the county do that and give SPD, NPPD, and VPD credit when they can have the officer do all the work of locating, arresting and transporting and then a deputy busy doing something else just signed a warrant and the SSO civilian employee lists the deputy as arresting instead of just executing it.
If officers can't be listed as arresting officers simply because they can't execute the warrant, then officers shouldn't be allowed to make these arrests. Oh wait, officers do have the authority to arrest people for active warrants, so let's give them the credit instead of pretending executing a warrant and being the arresting officer is one in the same because it is not.
It was done that way before you were born and it will still be done that way after you're dead. Some things never change. Welcome to Florida. However, please feel free to try and move that mountain out of your way!!! :lol: :shock:

That's a cop out. What can we expect from these agencies. Crap on eachother to make themselves look better and crap on the officers/deputies while doing it.

Quit being such a glory hound, no one cares about numbers any more. The chief said so when he met with us in briefing, at least I think that was the chief. Has anyone seen the chief, do we still have a chief here?

You mean chief Bartolotta

I just saw Chief Karr on TV!