LA County Attempting to Oust Duly Elected Sheriff

Ever notice how when a law enforcement organization makes the news for doing something ranging from questionable to utterly corrupt, it’s almost always a police department and hardly ever a sheriff’s office?

There’s a good reason for that, and it largely boils down to one key difference between their respective leaders: Sheriffs are elected. Police chiefs are appointed.

So, naturally, in their state-mandated mission to make everything all f*cky, the LA County Board is now working very hard to give themselves power to remove their duly elected sheriff. You know, for the voters’ well-being, because they don’t know what’s best for them. Only the Board knows.

Hilda Solis, who co-wrote the motion, stated, ““We can’t just sit back and watch the destruction of a wayward sheriff. If the sheriff is not able to follow the law … and engages in misconduct, the board needs stronger mechanisms to check this harmful behavior.”

What, exactly, is Sheriff Alex Villanueva guilty of that Solis and her peers find so egregiously anti-democratic, you ask? The answer shouldn’t surprise you: Something something, uh, maybe don’t defund the police.

That’s literally it, you guys, like, that’s the whole thing. Villanueva has called out the Board’s woke ideals as Not Very Realistic Or Productive, and now they want to smash up their entire state constitution over it.

In response, the sheriff released a statement on social media that basically boils down to, “no u.”

“The Board is attempting to cheat the system and create a ‘fast track’ pathway to remove a duly elected sheriff, one which circumvents the law and the foundational principles of due process enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. You are not, [sic] “putting it in the hands of the voters.” You are putting it in the hands of political activists, the same political activists who wrote the basis for this motion and the same political activists whose mission it is to abolish law enforcement and redirect the public safety budget to their own 501(c)(3) non-governmental organizations.

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If this is truly needed, then follow the path San Bernardino County took and amend the motion to include all eight elected positions in Los Angeles County government (1-sheriff, 1-district attorney, 1-assessor, 5-board of supervisors). Show the public this is truly for accountability and not a cheap political stunt designed to influence an election, or retaliation against a sheriff who supported a successful district attorney recall initiative, or retaliation against a sheriff by a board member who currently is implicated in an active criminal investigation and has actively refused to comply with search warrants, or payback by a board member to activist groups during the last election.”

WHOOP, there it is.

The good news is that this motion will likely be found hella unconstitutional, and the voters of LA County will have the ability to vote in the sheriff they want come November, just like God and the California State Constitution intended.