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12-14-2008, 01:54 PM #1
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12-14-2008, 02:13 PM #2
Re: DUI arrests plunge in Sarasota County
Im not gonna say we cant use our current budget more wisely because we can, but in no way should our number of deputies be decreasing. Our budget should be 7-10 million dollars higher then it is with the size/population of this county.
The problem is the county commission does not consider the SSO a priority. They would rather spend on parks,scat,buy sensetive lands,waste money on studies for the Red Sox who used us to get a better deal from Ft. Myers, etc. All good thngs but not priorities.
Has anyone held the county accountable for going over on the budget for the attempt to bring the Red sox here?????? Its to bad no one ran against some of these commissioners.
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12-14-2008, 04:19 PM #3
Re: DUI arrests plunge in Sarasota County
We used to have five guys on nights and two on evenings (7245,7246). The evenings guys would work FRI/ SAT nights to catch DUIs. 7105 (retired) and 7146 (you know who they are) would pull out the BAT mobile to do tests. Then we got tons of money from the county to add six traffic positions for aggresive driving enforcement and the Sheriff sat on the money for years wihout filling them until right before his last election campaign. Where did all those positions go? (crash cars that aren't anymore?) What budget did all that money get transfered to? We cut out the TAC unit which who fed alot of DUIs to the traffic unit. No wonder the numbers are down. And the Clerk is upset that ticket numbers are down so they raise the fines? Wow! Here's an idea: Lower the fines and add more bodies, and more tickets and DUI arrests will happen.
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12-14-2008, 06:22 PM #4
Re: DUI arrests plunge in Sarasota County
The local defense attorneys want us to do more DUIs? Funny. Stop making it so hard and we will.
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12-14-2008, 07:30 PM #5
Re: DUI arrests plunge in Sarasota County
Although I don't agree with them sometimes, I'm glad we have good defense attorneys out there, it keeps us doing our jobs right. I'd have to say that I've learned quite a bit from going to depos and going to courts with these attorneys, as they will know much more than us. Our numbers are pretty steady, given the amount of people who are doing the DUIs, the paper just chooses to report the worst numbers.
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12-14-2008, 10:30 PM #6
Re: DUI arrests plunge in Sarasota County
Originally Posted by Why should I
they want more business, thats why...
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12-20-2008, 03:39 PM #7
Re: DUI arrests plunge in Sarasota County
I don't know where they got their stats from CCSO. We dont even HAVE a DUI unit. We have a small traffic unit that rotates between the 3 districts. Very few of them, if any, actually look for DUI's.
I dont know too many regular Deputies that will even take a DUI. We take more drunks home in my District that were known as the real Star Cab.
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