Elias: California paying price for Sheriffs refusing to enforce COVID rules UP NEXT
The list of California law enforcement agencies refusing to enforce current stay-at-home, crowd-size, and masking orders from Gov. Gavin Newsom and county health officials numbers at least two dozen, stretching into most parts of the state.
Negative results of those scofflaw inactions were not obvious at first, while some counties let restaurants stay open despite closing orders, made no effort to prevent gatherings of more than 10 persons, and assigned no sheriff’s deputies to enforce face masking.
But now some nasty consequences are clear. Leaping out at readers of county-by-county statistics during Christmas Week was a direct correlation between lack of enforcement and coronavirus prevalence, infections, and deaths.