Nobody’s talking
YES. I am aware a high-ranking deputy sheriff was fired last week.
YES. I am aware the sheriff collected deputies’ phones back in December.
NO. I don’t know whether the two have any correlation whatsoever.
Everybody wants me to write about the malaise at the Sheriff’s Office, but no one wants to go on the record…
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Posted in reporting demystified | 8 Comments »
Nobody wants to be next
Comment by deputy — January 20, 2012 @ 7:48 am
Lindell, Just think about Surf City. You once met someone over there. Find that person and you will find a lot of answers to your questions, but I must tell you that you are not a well trusted man, and people will be watching you to see who it is.
Comment by specialreport — January 20, 2012 @ 1:55 pm
I’m not sure I need a job bad enough to work for Big Ed. I think he has lost it! Let’s see, having a squad of deputies following deputies around checking up on them. GPS on vehicles, now having to surrender your personal phones, shades of Joseph Stalin’s secret police. Of course if you don’t comply he fires you. I can’t help but wonder, if Big Ed is this cavalier about his deputies civil rights, how badly has he violated citizens rights.
Comment by Mike Fritz — January 20, 2012 @ 5:03 pm
Lindell are you on the admin staff now at the onslow county sheriffs office? The brass is leaving at the speen of light. You are about as close to the sheriff as anyone. I think he has always trusted you when it come to making headlines in the new paper.
Comment by Retired LEO — January 20, 2012 @ 6:49 pm
Ed has a zero tolerance policy, ( One that allows for his mistakes that are to numerous to mention ) and one that doesn’t even require him to explain what they did to begin with with. Speaking up puts his people out of jobs and their family in jepardy. They are scared and have every reason to be. But even if you don’t have sympathy for those employees, it should anger every citizen on Onslow County that he doesn’t have a second thought to getting rid of someone that our tax dollars paid to train. An officer is an expensive investment and he chooses to throw our money away everytime he axes one because they didn’t fit his moral code and every time he pays for a friend or family member to invest into.
Comment by Citizen K — January 20, 2012 @ 7:51 pm
Not Nice.
Comment by Nones Business — January 20, 2012 @ 8:48 pm
I will go on record to say that I wrote my State Representatives, the Department of Justice, and sent a letter to the editor expressing my deep concerns over Sheriff Ed Brown. Sheriff Ed Brown greatly overstepped his duties in taking the personal cell phones of his employees. As a business professional trained in mitigating conflict, ethics, and conflict resolution, there were alternative courses of action the Sheriff could have taken. However, he elected to behave differently and consequently abused his powers as an elected official. Maladministration is a violation of a North Carolina General Statue. Sadly, I was informed from the DOJ that the only person capable of holding the Sheriff acountable for his actions is our District Attorney or the voters in the next election. And I am not confident our voters will take enough interest in the welfare and work environment of our dedicated law enforcement to keep Ed Brown out of office.
Comment by D.Smith — January 26, 2012 @ 3:12 pm
D Smith,
That there is the main reason why the Sheriff continues to get away with all he has done to employees of the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office. The District Attorney’s Office will not do anything about it, he has the Christian vote (not votes for being the most qualified person for the job), and it is difficult to get him out of office. It is difficult, but not immpossible. I wonder if he could be recalled; the hiring and firing of the employees of the OCSO should be done by the county HR, and have nothing to do with the OCSO.
Comment by Special Report — January 31, 2012 @ 11:55 am