Pubdate: Sun, 12 May 2002
Source: High Point Enterprise (NC)
Copyright: 2002 High Point (N.C.) Enterprise
Contact:  http://www.hpe.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/576
Author: Debbie Leonard

SOME PEOPLE HOPE HEGE MOVES AWAY

I'd like to respond to the May 10 letter from Frank Goss supporting 
Davidson County Sheriff Hege. Goss says he has heard people of a "criminal 
nature" say that they stay away from Davidson County. I hear this quite 
often as a justification for Hege's tactics. Well, we do have crime in 
Davidson County, and a lot of it has been going on under the sheriff's nose.

I had heard rumors for years about people being stopped and drugs, etc., 
planted in their cars. I had heard about drugs disappearing after drug 
busts, etc. I never believed these rumors. I trusted the law-enforcement 
personnel in our county, but I believe the rumors now!

Goss also says that state statistics prove that crime has been lowered in 
Davidson County. Please keep in mind that those statistics are 
self-reported. Our sheriff's office has been accused of not reporting all 
crime, so you'll just have to take those statistics with a grain of salt.

Goss mentioned that people in the mountain areas would be happy to have 
Hege for a sheriff. Well, you know what? A lot of people in our county 
would be happy to have him run for sheriff somewhere else, too.

DEBBIE LEONARD

Thomasville
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