https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/05/09/video-california-sheriff-goes-rogue-shutdown/Video: California Sheriff Goes Rogue On The ShutdownJAZZ SHAW, Posted at 8:31 am on May 9, 2020
California Governor Gavin Newsom continues to double down on his insistence that his state will only reopen slowly and in phases, even as business owners and workers chafe against the restrictions. But those orders could be in danger if he can’t find law enforcement officials willing to enforce his decrees. That’s the problem he’s running into in Riverside, California, where Sheriff Chad Bianco went viral this week after informing the county Board of Supervisors that he would not be arresting or ticketing otherwise law-abiding citizens for going about their normal affairs. Doing so, he argues, would be a case of essentially turning them into criminals even as he’s being instructed to release actual criminals from his jail.
Riverside county has the second highest number of cases in CA, but the per-100K number is similar to that of the highest, LA County, It also is the second most tested county, IIRC. So some form of SiP may be justifiable. OTOH, arresting people is over-the-top, IMO, in any California country. For whatever combination of reasons, the situation in CA is dwarfed by NY, NJ, and probably a couple of other states.
It's time for county officials - not just in CA - to tell the state-level mini-tyrant-wannabes That they know their counties better than do the people in the state capital.
