A deputy crashed a police cruiser while chasing a car last week. Am I the only person that found the local reporting to be less than thorough on the matter?
What was the suspect's original infraction to warrant a chase scenario?
The Deputy was not charged in the accident. Obviously the suspect (who was easily found and arrested the next day) made it through the same stretch of road without crashing. Why couldn't the deputy? If the suspect had crashed I'd be willing to bet that he would've been charged with failure to maintain proper control.
Of course our local media (I know... stop laughing) will let this fall through the cracks. I can almost forgive The News & Record since they helped get Sheriff Noblin elected and I wouldn't expect them to print anything critical of his department, but the Gazette-Virginian will do no better. And WHLF's 'news' is a joke. Since Kenneth Cranford passed away they haven't aired an original news item.
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No, I already said that on HalifaxTalk.
Thanks for playing.
Bruce, I didn't realize you owned a copyright on your opinion on this subject.
I hadn't read the thread on halifaxtalk.com when I posted this and it took me some time to find it this morning given it's idiotic, non-descriptive thread title.
Has anyone else noticed that Stanley never seems to come out and publicly defend his deputies when they are criticized in the public, this is one such example.
Another perfect example, The Sheetz shooting, we never heard from him, not once did he speak in support of his investigator. Perhaps doing so might have been improper during the investigation, but why not after its conclusion? Even after Kim cleared the deputy of any wrongdoing; Nothing from Noblin!
In fact does anyone ever see "most accessible Sheriff ever"? Does anyone ever hear from him? Does he ever speak to the media outside of the glory hounding the camera's about the boy and the dogs?
How many drug arrests (or substantial arrests of any charge) have we seen as compared with the previous administration?
How high or low is the morale in the Sheriffs office now? Noblin, promised to raise it from the 'detestable levels' it had sunk to in the Oakes administration.
The questions are endless.
and no one in the media is apparently going to ask them!
All very good questions, anonymous. I doubt they will ever be answered, though.
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