From: Chuck Le Mieux [clemieux@joimail.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:26 AM
To: Ascension Parish Sheriff Patrol (landerson@ascensionsheriff.com)
Cc: Ascension Parish Sheriff Department (jwiley@ascensionsheriff.com);
Ascension Citizen (citizen@eatel.net); Ascension Parish CAO (randerson@ascension.par.la.gov);
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Department (tbacala@ascensionsheriff.com)
Sir,
I would like to share with you a conversation
I had a few days past with an Ascension Parish deputy of many years service,
name withheld of course.
The conversation had to do with an Advocate
article about a popularity poll hanging on the wall of the sheriff department.
I'm sure your aware of this article.This poll gave Mr. Wiley a very large
satisfactory vote.
The deputy asked if I knew why. His answer
was because of the 40 or 45 units Mr. Wiley had added to the force. He said, "
of course what good did it do when half of the units are parked in back of gas
stations."
I must concur with this deputy. I have on at
least two or three occasions reported to your dispatcher units parked at the
Exxon station on Highway 73 for more than an hour with the deputy standing
with his arms on the doughnut counter flirting with the girls working there
while traffic laws were being broken right in back of him. Multiple motorcycle
units all parked together at the Burger King. Again while traffic laws were
being broken right in front of them. And three motorcycle units and one unit
gathered around one radar gun. How many deputies does it take to operate a
radar gun? Four one to operate the gun and three to chew the fat.
Mr. Anderson, the majority of the roads in
this parish are death traps. Either due to excessive speed limits, or
deplorable condition, or most likely both. The carnage on these roads is
deplorable. Yet the death rate climbs even with all of your new units on the
road, when in fact it should be decreasing. The only realistic conclusion is
that someone is not doing there job! That being you and your deputies.
I and other parish residents are fed up and
would like to see a one hundred an eighty degree turn around.
