Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones on why he will not enforce the California governor’s new coronavirus stay-at-home orders.
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Pete, just one week for come
PETE just one week for come
under fire for ignoring his own
covid 19 restrictions, not from
me
California, Governor Gavin Newsom,
has imposed a curfew on
residents from 1000 p, DOT M to
500 a dot m for a month.
Our next guest joins the growing
list of sheriffs who say they
will not enforce the governors
latest stay at home order.
Sacramento county sheriff Scott
Jones joins me now
sheriff thanks for being here,
so the governor says stay home
from 1000 to 500.
What will you and your
department be doing?
Well, we wont be enforcing
that or any of the other orders
that are in existence now or
might be coming
a couple reasons for that.
Really one is practical:
we still have the same types and
amounts of calls for service, as
we always have from the mundane
to the exciting,
but there is also kind of a
theoretical aspect of it.
My kids, my family, my extended
family, are all suffering during
this like Everybodys family
and it really has had an
oppressive affect on Everybodys
family,
and I really dont want our
women and mental of the
sheriffs office to be
instruments of that oppression.
I want folks to call us when
they need help, knowing we are
going to show up and make their
lives better and make the
situation better,
and this is the opposite of that
that
PETE Sheriff whats the
response been from the community
to you defying this
its really been
overwhelming.
I did this because it was the
right thing to do.
Obviously, I have tapped into a
frustration that at least our
community- and I suspect everyone
in the state and beyond- has with
these changing, sometimes
conflicting, reinstated. Taken
back reinstated, orders
its been overwhelmingly
positive.
We have gotten tons more social
media followers.
All of the comments seem to be
very, very supportive and
positive.
Pete sheriff. I agree your
move. Let me play devils
advocate.
How do you decide which order
from a governor is too far or
not too far?
I have made the decision to
not enforce any of them.
We have rules from governors
unelected bureaucrats from
legislatures
and if we learn nothing else
over this last year, folks are
crying for police to be more
responsive to their community.
Enforcing these rules that are
not criminal laws is really the
opposite of that, and I just
dont want to put my women and
men of my office to be in a
position to have to enforce
those
PETE Chevy never considered
moving to Sacramento this
morning.
They are in good hands.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-21.