Pierce County Citizens Beware - LTE

Letter to the Editor - Pierce County Herald

“Pierce County Citizens Beware”

It has become a very big problem here in Pierce County. The Sheriff Dept. Deputies are not providing Ethical and Respectful treatment to the citizens they are dealing with. I have had too many situations with police reports not being accurate, and officers responding to me with arrogance and disrespect. Once I have had a bad encounter with a Deputy, I request a copy of the report to verify the information to ensure it’s accuracy. I have found that more often than not, there is plenty of information that is not correct. Sometimes, having falsified information by the Deputy themselves. Once you have contact with a Deputy, they must treat you with “Respect”. It is in their “Mission Statement” that the Deputy treats every contact with respect to the diversity of the individual. The integrity of the entire Dept. is viewed upon with every contact they make. Compassion, sincerity and commitment of service to the highest level will be the cornerstone is part of their statement. They also note that the officers need to perform their duties to show exemplary job performance. To have reports with false information in them, does not show any of the items in their mission statement. Whether it is accidental or intentionally done, shows the Dept. is failing their responsibilities with the public. I have received several reports with incorrect information, and upon requesting them to be corrected, I have been denied every time, with statements being made “I am not as credible as the Deputy”. The Deputy is never wrong is the Sheriff Dept.’s belief. I have proof of these issues, yet they still deny my rights to have the reports amended to be correct. Any situation you may have with law enforcement, should never have any issues with reports being accurate, but when they are not, It must be questioned. I do want to make it clear that the majority of problems that I have witnessed, come with the male deputies, and it usually is due to arrogance. Most people probably don’t bother with getting reports after contact with the deputies, but I have. It is a big problem here in Pierce County, and I have even written a 300+ page book on the subject. I m currently looking at a variety of publishing aspects at this time. There is no excuse for any citizen to feel like they are not getting the professional service they deserve from the Sheriff’s Dept. I am simply wanting to make it clear to the citizens that there are serious problems in the area of our County Police Dept. I have made direct attempts to contact the Sheriff and get resolution to these problems. The Sheriff simply passes it off to someone else to deal with, and it ends the same with every request…DENIED

This proves as a citizen, your rights are not the Sheriff Dept’s concern.