Tag: Aspen Sheriff
Posted on Fri Oct 22, 2010 at 10:40:25 PM EST
Tags: Joe DiSalvo, Aspen Sheriff (all tags)
I've endorsed Joe DiSalvo for Pitkin County Sheriff several times over the past six months. Here's one more reason: Di Salvo supports the legalization of drugs for personal use:
DiSalvo, who is currently Pitkin County undersheriff, said he had no interest in whether people in their own homes “fire up a joint or do a line on [their] table.” That means no undercover work would be done by deputies under his command, DiSalvo said, calling the action too expensive and dangerous for law enforcement officers.
“I think adults should be able to do what they want in their own homes and do so safely,” DiSalvo said, adding that that attitude does not apply to children or people getting behind the wheel of automobiles.
Di Salvo shares the views of Aspen's retiring Sheriff (and my personal fave) Bob Braudis: [More...]
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Posted on Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 11:43:47 AM EST
Tags: Aspen Sheriff, Joe DiSalvo (all tags)
Aspen does not allow undercover operations. As I've written before, Sheriff Candidate Joe DiSalvo would keep that policy.
At a debate last night between the three candidates vying for Pitkin County Sheriff, two said they would reverse the policy. Candidate Rick Magnuson, who as I've written before, would make a terrible Sheriff in my view, said:
He pinned the valley’s suicide rate, which is twice the state average, on lax enforcement of drug laws. Magnuson lamented the policy of DiSalvo’s law enforcement agency, which also does not permit undercover sting operations to bust drug dealers, saying it’s something he would like to change.
The third candidate, an ex-cop in Florida and New York, wants to bring in big city cops to Aspen.
DiSalvo is sticking to his guns, and the policies of outgoing Sheriff Bob Braudis [More...]:
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