A half-century ago, I was the editor of a small daily newspaper in Northern California and one of my reporters dug up a terrific story.
He learned that that the countyâs Board of Supervisors had privately compelled the countyâs sheriff to receive alcoholism treatment by threatening to take away some of his administrative powers. The sheriffâs excessive drinking habits were well known to courthouse insiders and he had crashed at least one county vehicle while driving drunk, although it had been covered up.
We published the story on the front page and it touched off a public firestorm. However, the popular ire was not directed at the errant sheriff, but rather at the newspaper and me for, it was said, besmirching the character of a very popular local figure.
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California’s elected sheriffs are feeling the heat in an era of heightened activism on criminal justice reform.
A half-century ago, I was the editor of a small daily newspaper in Northern California and one of my reporters dug up a terrific story.
He learned that that the county’s Board of Supervisors had privately compelled the county’s sheriff to receive alcoholism treatment by threatening to take away some of his administrative powers. The sheriff’s excessive drinking habits were well known to courthouse insiders and he had crashed at least one county vehicle while driving drunk, although it had been covered up.
A half-century ago, I was the editor of a small daily newspaper in Northern California and one of my reporters dug up a terrific story.
He learned that that the county’s Board of Supervisors had privately compelled the county’s sheriff to receive alcoholism treatment by threatening to take away some
Man who killed deputy in shootout at Cal Expo is identified Share Updated: 4:03 PM PST Jan 20, 2021 Jonathan Ayestas Share Updated: 4:03 PM PST Jan 20, 2021
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Show Transcript WHERE 31-YEAR-OLD DEPUTY ADAM GIBSON AND 5-YEAR-OLD K-9 RILEY WERE SHOT. INVESTIGATORS SAY A LITTLE AFTER 10:00 P.M. LAST NIGHT, DEPUTIES NOTICED A CAR IN A PARKING LOT THAT LOOKED LIKE ONE INVOLVED IN A SERIES OF BURGLARIES. WHEN DEPUTIES TRIED TO TALK WITH THE DRIVER, THEY LEARNED HE WAS ON PAROLE, AND WHEN THEY TRIED TO SEARCH THE CAR, INVESTIGATORS SAY THE MAN DROVE OFF, LEADING DEPUTIES ON A CHASE TO TO CAL EX OTHER DEPUTIES ARRIVED TO HELP AND ORDERED THE MAN OUTSIDE OF THE CAR. HE REFUSED. THE DEPUTIES SENT BEAN BAG SHOTS INTO THE CAR. SEVERAL SHOTS WERE FIRED FROM INSIDE THE CAR. DEPUTY GIBSON, K-9 RILEY AND ANOTHER DEPUTY WERE HIT. MULTIPLE DEPUTIES SHOT BACK, ACCORDING TO THE SHERIFF S OFFICE. THE SHERIFF S OFFICE SAYS DEPUTY GIBSON WAS RU
By Stella Chan, CNN
Updated 1:51 PM ET, Tue January 19, 2021 (CNN)A California sheriff s deputy and a police dog were killed in a shootout with a suspect Monday night, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones told reporters during a news briefing.
The shootout came after deputies pursued a driver who had failed to stop. The brief chase ended near the California State Fairgrounds Race Track in Sacramento, where the driver crashed the vehicle and refused to get out, deputies said.
After using less-lethal weapons to shoot out the back window, one of the K-9 officers deployed a dog to the vehicle to try and assist getting the suspect out, said the sheriff. The suspect immediately shot and killed the K-9 unit and then immediately started firing on the officers.