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Post by deepsea on Jun 5, 2014 8:50:05 GMT -4
How many deaths were from Heroin overdoses in the county the last 2 years? I know that the use of heroin has sky rocket. Is it bad policing?
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Post by JJ on Jun 5, 2014 10:20:10 GMT -4
Deepsea, I am sorry I don't have an exact number, but there have been several deaths with Heroin as a contributing factor, Due to HIPPA, unless there is an active police investigation, the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will not just release the death information.
There are many factors why the use of Heroin and other illegal drugs have skyrocketed, and yes policing is a contributing factor. When our patrol road deputies are working with a manpower of three deputies on a night shift driving all over this county answering calls for service and making arrests, there is no time for them to just work pro-active drug enforcement. You start educating at the elementary school level all the way to the adults levels about drug abuse. You pro-actively saturate patrol known areas where there are drug problems, follow up and patrol areas where citizens complain of drug activity, utilize the unmarked vehicles for this enforcement action rather than use them as commuter vehicles for command staff, lock up the drug addicts, get the intelligence information that some will provide and you act on that information, you go after the dealers and their suppliers and give Queen Anne's County a reputation to the higher drug suppliers in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, DC, and other supply hubs that are bring the drugs here that there is heavy enforcement from the local authorities and they will move to another area.
Years ago, before Sheriff Hofmann was the sheriff, the Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office had a marked 1988 Chevrolet Camaro and on the back bumper it said "seized from a drug dealer, thanks!" You start doing asset forfeitures from these drug dealers and the word will get out!
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Post by frankf on Jun 5, 2014 10:37:58 GMT -4
IF you are happy with our Heroin issues, vote for Hoffman if you are happy spending hundreds of thousands on legal defence, vote for Hoffman If you are happy with NO K9 Dogs in our County Sheriffs office, vote for Hoffman If you are happy with high turnover in his office, vote for Hoffman If you are happy with consent decrees and outside attorneys watching over our QAC HR dept for the next 3 years, vote for Hoffman If you are tired of this nonsense and want some change, Vote for Banks or Rhodes. And how many election ads, websites and pictures has the Sheriff (in uniform) appeared in, in direct violation of the State Ethics Law? An employee may not intentionally use the prestige of the employee’s office for his or her own private gain or that of another.
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Post by JJ on Jun 5, 2014 11:00:42 GMT -4
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Post by jackbquick on Jun 5, 2014 12:10:28 GMT -4
Get a life! Seriously. You are nitpicking about a picture and a radio. Like I said before, it is one thing to be a supporter but it is another to be sleeping with Banks. Or you are one of the people you think he wronged.
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Post by frankf on Jun 5, 2014 12:18:33 GMT -4
The Sheriff is all over Steve Wilson's Facebook election page and appears in Steve Wilson's TV ads. He has endorsed others in past elections as well using his position and office in order to do so, in clear violation of ethics laws. I haven't checked other candidates pages to see if he appears there as well. An employee may not intentionally use the prestige of the employee’s office for his or her own private gain or that of another.That's not nit-picking. That's pretty clear. I have voted for the Sheriff in the past, but with the many skeletons he has in his closets I feel it's time for a change.
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Post by deepsea on Jun 5, 2014 14:12:58 GMT -4
The Sheriff is all over Steve Wilson's Facebook election page and appears in Steve Wilson's TV ads. He has endorsed others in past elections as well using his position and office in order to do so, in clear violation of ethics laws. I haven't checked other candidates pages to see if he appears there as well. An employee may not intentionally use the prestige of the employee’s office for his or her own private gain or that of another.That's not nit-picking. That's pretty clear. I have voted for the Sheriff in the past, but with the many skeletons he has in his closets I feel it's time for a change. Steve Wilson who lives in the house at Conquest Beach? Does Steve Wilson let all Queen Ann's county sheriffs office personnel use his house for free?
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Post by JJ on Jun 5, 2014 14:23:18 GMT -4
Get a life! Seriously. You are nitpicking about a picture and a radio. Like I said before, it is one thing to be a supporter but it is another to be sleeping with Banks. Or you are one of the people you think he wronged. WOW! So defensive and hostile! Are solid true facts hurting your feelings? Call it what it is but a picture speaks for it self on the tax payer time! I will reiterate that Sheriff Hofmann goes around and says he is a working deputy, but I just make the point how can you be a working deputy when your out of your police vehicle and can't even hear the dispatcher!
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Post by jackbquick on Jun 5, 2014 15:43:02 GMT -4
Get a life! Seriously. You are nitpicking about a picture and a radio. Like I said before, it is one thing to be a supporter but it is another to be sleeping with Banks. Or you are one of the people you think he wronged. WOW! So defensive and hostile! Are solid true facts hurting your feelings? Call it what it is but a picture speaks for it self on the tax payer time! I will reiterate that Sheriff Hofmann goes around and says he is a working deputy, but I just make the point how can you be a working deputy when your out of your police vehicle and can't even hear the dispatcher! I spoke to Hofmann. He said the deputy who took the pictures as holding the items missing from the picture so they could respond as necessary. What other ridiculous b.s. you got?
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Post by JJ on Jun 5, 2014 16:05:56 GMT -4
WOW! So defensive and hostile! Are solid true facts hurting your feelings? Call it what it is but a picture speaks for it self on the tax payer time! I will reiterate that Sheriff Hofmann goes around and says he is a working deputy, but I just make the point how can you be a working deputy when your out of your police vehicle and can't even hear the dispatcher! I spoke to Hofmann. He said the deputy who took the pictures as holding the items missing from the picture so they could respond as necessary. What other ridiculous b.s. you got? Since you spoke to Hofmann and defend him on every factual topic brought up, can you act as a liaison for us please? Please ask him all of the direct questions that have been asked on these two blogs and inform us of his answers to these factual topics?? Call it "ridiculous b.s." I call it serious factual information about incidents that took place on the tax payers time!
Here is a question since we are on this topic: Since the Sheriff's Office is short staffed especially on night shift, why is Sheriff Hofmann tying up another deputy while ON DUTY to take a picture and hold a radio for a photo op?? Wouldn't the WBOC reporter have taken the picture when the video was taken by WBOC?
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Post by jackbquick on Jun 5, 2014 16:30:51 GMT -4
I spoke to Hofmann. He said the deputy who took the pictures as holding the items missing from the picture so they could respond as necessary. What other ridiculous b.s. you got? Since you spoke to Hofmann and defend him on every factual topic brought up, can you act as a liaison for us please? Please ask him all of the direct questions that have been asked on these two blogs and inform us of his answers to these factual topics?? Call it "ridiculous b.s." I call it serious factual information about incidents that took place on the tax payers time!
Here is a question since we are on this topic: Since the Sheriff's Office is short staffed especially on night shift, why is Sheriff Hofmann tying up another deputy while ON DUTY to take a picture and hold a radio for a photo op?? Wouldn't the WBOC reporter have taken the picture when the video was taken by WBOC?
The deputy was off duty and wanted to help. What else do you have?
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Post by JJ on Jun 5, 2014 16:49:28 GMT -4
So Jack for clarification from what you are saying, Sheriff Hofmann was ON DUTY, ON THE TAX PAYERS TIME, working on HIS POLITICAL SIGN, IN UNIFORM, with an off duty deputy holding his police radio for a photo shot?
Tell me that working on your political sign ON DUTY, ON THE TAX PAYERS TIME, IN UNIFORM isn't an ethics or departmental policy violation?
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 5, 2014 16:53:49 GMT -4
Investigating vandalism which is a crime
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Post by JJ on Jun 5, 2014 16:59:33 GMT -4
And WBOC News out of Salisbury and an off duty deputy to take pictures and to hold the sheriff's police radio just happened to be there while the Sheriff is putting a cover over his political sign while on duty!
If it is a criminal investigation, why is Sheriff Hofmann even involved, shouldn't it be a road deputy conducting the investigation? Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't a reasonable and prudent person believe that Sheriff Hoffman on duty investigating a crime involving one of his personal political signs be conflict of interest?
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Post by JJ on Jun 5, 2014 17:27:54 GMT -4
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Post by jackbquick on Jun 5, 2014 17:45:15 GMT -4
So Jack for clarification from what you are saying, Sheriff Hofmann was ON DUTY, ON THE TAX PAYERS TIME, working on HIS POLITICAL SIGN, IN UNIFORM, with an off duty deputy holding his police radio for a photo shot? Tell me that working on your political sign ON DUTY, ON THE TAX PAYERS TIME, IN UNIFORM isn't an ethics or departmental policy violation? Depends what was written on the sign. Do you remember what you wrote on his sign?
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 5, 2014 19:06:58 GMT -4
Yawn
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Post by deepsea on Jun 5, 2014 19:51:54 GMT -4
Does Steve Wilson give all the q.a. Sheriffs office personnel free use of the house at Conquest beach?
Does Steve Wilson have a police record of any kind? Just asking?
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Post by JJ on Jun 5, 2014 21:05:53 GMT -4
So Jack for clarification from what you are saying, Sheriff Hofmann was ON DUTY, ON THE TAX PAYERS TIME, working on HIS POLITICAL SIGN, IN UNIFORM, with an off duty deputy holding his police radio for a photo shot? Tell me that working on your political sign ON DUTY, ON THE TAX PAYERS TIME, IN UNIFORM isn't an ethics or departmental policy violation? Depends what was written on the sign. Do you remember what you wrote on his sign? WOW, here we go again, a typical response from Sheriff Hofmann or one of his dedicated totally in denial supporters. Typical for you to totally shift from the topic at question when Sheriff Hofmann and you are CLEARLY caught in a lie and then to start back peddling when called out for it! Face it, you just got showed a flat out lie, Ethical, and Departmental violations of Sheriff's Office Policy and Procedures! That's is some real integrity and leadership Sheriff Hofmann! So what do you do you now, accuse me of committing a crime of Malicious Destruction of Property under $500.00. Please if you are making the assumption that I committed this crime by accusing me by saying " Do you remember what you wrote on his sign"? Please conduct a criminal investigation and please FALSLY arrest me! I will be sure to get in line and file a multi-million dollar lawsuit! We all know there is a history of falsely accusing a person of a crime under Sheriff Hofmann's leadership! Sheriff Hofmann preaches he is not "Mudslinging", but to accuse me of a crime, WOW! I am not "Mudslinging" I am asking questions about factual documented incidents under Sheriff Hofmann's leadership in his own department. If I were "Mudslinging" I am sure I could bring up some other topics, but I will hold myself to a higher standard on that topic! I think I might get an Italian Ice at Rita's on Kent Island, that would go down good on a nice summer evening! Since we are on this topic of Integrity, Ethics, and Departmental Policies and Procedures, Please ask Sheriff Hofmann next time you speak to him for his definition of the word integrity and if he could give you some examples of his integrity, ethics, and following departmental Policies and Procedures under his leadership. I am sure we will get another runaround answer, just like you refuse to answer Deepsea's question!
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Post by jackbquick on Jun 5, 2014 21:20:28 GMT -4
Does Steve Wilson give all the q.a. Sheriffs office personnel free use of the house at Conquest beach? Does Steve Wilson have a police record of any kind? Just asking? Not sure but I would like to find out.
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Post by jackbquick on Jun 5, 2014 21:22:11 GMT -4
Depends what was written on the sign. Do you remember what you wrote on his sign? WOW, here we go again, a typical response from Sheriff Hofmann or one of his dedicated totally in denial supporters. Typical for you to totally shift from the topic at question when Sheriff Hofmann and you are CLEARLY caught in a lie and then to start back peddling when called out for it! Face it, you just got showed a flat out lie, Ethical, and Departmental violations of Sheriff's Office Policy and Procedures! That's is some real integrity and leadership Sheriff Hofmann! So what do you do you now, accuse me of committing a crime of Malicious Destruction of Property under $500.00. Please if you are making the assumption that I committed this crime by accusing me by saying " Do you remember what you wrote on his sign"? Please conduct a criminal investigation and please FALSLY arrest me! I will be sure to get in line and file a multi-million dollar lawsuit! We all know there is a history of falsely accusing a person of a crime under Sheriff Hofmann's leadership! Sheriff Hofmann preaches he is not "Mudslinging", but to accuse me of a crime, WOW! I am not "Mudslinging" I am asking questions about factual documented incidents under Sheriff Hofmann's leadership in his own department. If I were "Mudslinging" I am sure I could bring up some other topics, but I will hold myself to a higher standard on that topic! I think I might get an Italian Ice at Rita's on Kent Island, that would go down good on a nice summer evening! Since we are on this topic of Integrity, Ethics, and Departmental Policies and Procedures, Please ask Sheriff Hofmann next time you speak to him for his definition of the word integrity and if he could give you some examples of his integrity, ethics, and following departmental Policies and Procedures under his leadership. I am sure we will get another runaround answer, just like you refuse to answer Deepsea's question!
JJ, are you the person involved in the recent settlement because if you are I will stop busting your chops.
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Post by Tommy on Jun 5, 2014 22:24:21 GMT -4
I must agree with Deep Sea on this topic. Get rid of ALL the incumbents, no political party discrimination. The ongoing debates regarding the numerous candidates for 5 commissioner positions, 1 Register and 1 Orphans Judge and ONE SHERIFF have been very informative and entertaining. Unfortunately I can't vote in the upcoming primary elections due to lack of registered party affiliation ( I will never surrender my independent status). I want you people to narrow the field for me and give me a few decent choices come this November. I don't vote party, I vote person. I do believe we can't afford any more tax increases or litigation expenses initiated by the Sheriff's Office. TIME FOR CHANGE!
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Post by markymark on Jun 5, 2014 23:13:48 GMT -4
Why dont you back up and read some of the things you have stated in the other forum that you attempted to run from and start this thread. Everyone else is looking. Dont play innocent since you got backed into a corner.
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Post by markymark on Jun 5, 2014 23:14:24 GMT -4
Why dont you back up and read some of the things you have stated in the other forum that you attempted to run from and start this thread. Everyone else is looking. Dont play innocent since you got backed into a corner.
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Post by markymark on Jun 5, 2014 23:35:24 GMT -4
Well... lets just start out where you are getting backed into the corner and are fighting to get out by saying that JJ is "Sleeping with Banks". Way to be an adult. Just like hofmann, you insult and whine when you get called out on yet ANOTHER fact! The fact that you spoke to hofmann says alot about your character. You managed to get yourself in the same category as him and trust me, thats not a good category to be in. So since you are such good friends with hofmann, maybe you can ask him about all the corrupt and illegal things that he has done that is claiming hasnt happened. Oh wait, it did, with documentation, to prove it. I guess integrity goes out the window when hofmann became sheriff. You talk about him having a deputy to "hold his radio". Wow, he cant handle carrying and answering his own radio that he needs someone to "volunteer" to carry it for him, then how do you expect him to be able to run a Sheriffs Department. Sad! I would be embarassed. As far as the deputy "volunteering", you talk about bs, thats the biggest that ive heard. So if this deputy "volunteered" his time, why hasnt he "volunteered" at anything else for hofmann? There have been NO deputies that are at of any of his functions other than the command staff that he has appointed. Sketchy to me! So lets get into the next topic... sheriff hofmann investigating a crime of vandalism against his sign. Last time I checked, you dont take pictures of you "investigating" a sign. That is a complete conflict of interest that he is investigating a crime against him. Lets elaborate on that topic even more.. ummm hello, you dont investigate a crime and remove the evidence. You dont remove and hide evidence, on camera and video during an "investigation". Furthermore, if hes investigating a act of vandalism... maybe the public should contact with sheriffs office and see the public record of the case number that any deputy/sheriff is required to pull and complete a report on it. Lets see if that happened. Seems just like a cover up to me. We can definately tell that jackbquick is a hofmann supporter, hes acusing JJ, someone he doesnt even know of vandalising hofmann's sign. No factual basis to support that alligation and as far as I am concerned seems like defimation of character to me. I dont know JJ personally but if I were him I would be upset. Thats ok, just like hofmann, jackbquick makes accusations and starts propaganda against people and facts he knows nothing about. I guess since hofmann and his deputy "friend" like making false arrests and sending people to jail for crimes they didnt commit, that led to a lawsuit everyone should be used to this by now.
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