In the past, I know a lot of people have been elected without any experience in law enforcement. Although this job is more administrative, the sheriff still must know what the law is.

There is no way to give a new officer a higher salary for years of experience. This has become a problem filling these vacancies.

You will not have people coming in to law firms thinking this is where they will necessarily end up. So what we are offering them is to make them a bit more commercial.

I've seen contention before. I'm trying to work to come up with ways to bring people together and move past that particular moment in time.

For the people who experience it, it's a tragedy, but for the country as a whole, we can absorb it.

(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work