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smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for

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your support. So let's talk about our sheriff again. I

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didn't even get to all of the allegations against him

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yesterday and I talked about it for over two hours.

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That's how many allegations there are against Mecklemburg County Sheriff Gary.

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Not my fault, McFadden. So some developments since the petition

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was filed and was published by the law firm that

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is handling the petition. They're based out of Raleigh, and

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some leftist website purporting to be a news operation. They

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got to the real heart of the matter. The real

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story here is that they identified a Republican operative who

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helped the law firm draw up the petition. Pay no

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attention to the fact that the petitioners are all Democrats.

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They're all former employees of the sheriff. So this is

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not a Republican hit piece on Gary. Not my fault, McFadden.

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This has been building for years, right. The real story

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is not that some Republican guy helped to draw up

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the petition for the law firm. The real story is

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that we have an awful sheriff who is credibly a

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cute of a whole host of things from corruption, maladministration, extortion, bribery,

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retaliation against crime victims and whistleblowers like. We have been

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documenting this for years and it has finally now resulted

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in a petition for his removal. I have been advocating

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this for years because it is the only way to

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get him out of the office that he was elected to.

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So because of the petition that was filed, the district

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Attorney in Mecklemburg County now shall investigate or I guess

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he could have the county attorney take it up, but

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he Spencer Merriweather his office put out a statement yesterday

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said the qualified filing of a removal petition is a

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serious matter, requiring an approval determination from either the district

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Attorney or the county attorney in order for the petition

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to proceed. District attorneys have only rarely granted the approval

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of such a petition. Yep, because the petitions are rare

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in and of themselves too, So these things don't get

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filed all the time. So, yes, that's true. But it's

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also true that there aren't a lot of these things

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that get filed. So with the understanding that the election

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of a community's official is a binding choice of the

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public which should be only superseded under the most grave circumstances, yes,

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like we have right now. Yes, the most fundamentally sound

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method for removal of public officers is popular election by ballot,

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where the people of a given jurisdiction are themselves the

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final arbiter of the fitness of those who wish to

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serve them. Okay, slight problem there. If you have a

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corrupt sheriff who has built a constituency out of inmates,

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former inmates, and their families and a patronage system that

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he is running through the jail through his office right

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where he values the loyalty of his employees and their

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families to go vote for him because their promotions depend

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on their loyalty to him. And that's what's documented in

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the petition here, not that he's demanding their votes, but

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that their promotions are tied to loyalty. So obviously, if

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you know your husband or wife works at the sheriff's

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office and they are perceived to be not loyal enough

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to the sheriff, then they're not going to get promotions.

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They're going to get crap assignments. They may even get fired,

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which is in the petition. But if you're loyal to

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not my fault McFadden, and you're willing to act as

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an informant to him about what other coworkers are doing,

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then you can rise through the ranks and now you

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are stickier to him, which means you're going to be supportive,

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which translates into votes. Right, if you have an elected

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official who has built a machine, if you will to

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guarantee his continued reelection, this is the mechanism. I understand

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that in a perfect world, these things should not be

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entered into lightly, and all of that, I get all

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of that. This is not being entered into lightly. The

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accusations against him are well known, they've been documented, and

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they are egregious, but it took until now for five people,

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five voters with direct knowledge of these accusations, to finally

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step forward to get the five necessy very petitioners to

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sign on to this petition. I'm going to come to

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a piece that was over at the Charlotte Observer about

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the suspicious timing of all this. No, it's not suspicious timing.

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McFadden wouldn't say if he was going to run for reelection, right,

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He kept hemming and hauling about it before the holidays. Oh,

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I'm not sure. I'm going to go down to Macbee,

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South Carolina for the family reunion and all of that,

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and we'll go down to our family home and we'll

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pray about it and all of this. So he was

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he was not saying if he was going to run again.

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There's a March primary, and so now that he's going

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to run again, that's the now the petition got filed.

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So the timing does not seem suspicious to me. Anyway,

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back to the DA's press release here. For decades, other

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prosecutorial authorities, both state and federal, have developed policies restricting

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the advancement of any prosecution of public officers within close

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proximity of them. Standing for election. Yeah, and that's how

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we ended up with Pat Cannon becoming the mayor of

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the City of Charlotte while being investigated for bribery and corruption.

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And then when he won because the public didn't know

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he was under this investigation, then he wins and then

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you arrest him, not the day they were federal charges,

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but then they arrest him, and now we have no mayor,

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and now we have to have what an appointment, right,

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that's how we got the Democrat Party. They got to

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appoint a replacement and then a special election gets held.

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That's a cost to the taxpayers. You could have just

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told us that you had this guy on video in

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a hotel room taking cash and like flitting through the

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dollar bills. You know, Oh, I love the breeze of

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the dollar bills on my face. Like you could have

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told us that before the election. Yeah. I'm not a

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big fan of this rule. Like I understand, you know,

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the intent behind it is, like, well, we don't want

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to influence the election. Yeah, I would prefer to know

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the information if our if our city councilman, mayoral candidate

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is under federal investigation is about to be indicted. I'd

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prefer to know that before the election. I feel like

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that's a pretty critical piece of information, you know. Nevertheless,

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the statement from the DIA goes on to say, our

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removal statute creates obligations for the district Attorney or the

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county attorney, if he so chooses. I don't know who

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the he is there. I don't know if it's the

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If it's the county attorney, is the he and he

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gets to choose, or if it's the DA, who is

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the he who gets to choose who takes the case up?

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But he is correct. The state law requires you to

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bring this investigation forward. It requires it. It says shall,

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It's not may, you shall. So whatever your thoughts are

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about not wanting to get involved in any of this

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investigation or litigating this petition with the March primary coming up,

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McFadden is in the primary, it doesn't matter. You have

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to do it. In this office, a substantive review of

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any allegations will typically come only after a state or

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local law enforcement agency has had an opportunity to investigate

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any reported claims. Accordingly, before an approval determination comes from

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this office. I will, in my discretion, request that the

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State Bureau of Investigation investigate each allegation and report its

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findings to my office directly. So it sounds like he

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doesn't want to take lead on this, so he wants

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all of the evidence presented before he goes forward with it.

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If he's going to stick his neck out against mcfadd jod,

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he wants the SBI involved in it too. You know,

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attorney's news release that he sent out saying that he

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has kicked the removal petition against Sheriff Gary not my fault, McFadden.

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He has kicked it over to the State Bureau of

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Investigations because of the allegations in the letter, he says,

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in your review to this is the he's sending to

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the Special Agent in charge of the SBI. In your

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review of the petition, you will note that a number

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of criminal violations are alleged, which I'm requesting to be

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investigated as well, including the following state campaign finance violations,

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Hatch Act violations, extortion and bribery, economic threats made to

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influence legislation, and then he he notes, in the event

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it impacts, where the investigation may be assigned, I want

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you to be aware. One of the petitioners is former

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North Carolina SBI Southern Piedmont District Special Agent in Charge

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Kevin Knty, who was formerly your colleague. No. I interviewed

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Kevin Canny. Kevin Canty came from the SBI. He had

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a long career at the SBI, well respected, went to

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work for McFadden, lasted nine months, quit, wrote the public letter.

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His successor came in, he lasted nine months quit. He

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too wrote a public letter where they outlined all of

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the outrageous behavior of the sheriff. A lot of it

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is detailed in the petition to remove McFadden. It says

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McFadden misused official resource in his management of dignitary duty.

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Dignitary duty refers to the use of on duty sheriff's

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deputies and other official resources to escort and protect public

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figures and VIPs okay specifically on information and belief. McFadden

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directed deputies on dignitary duty to pick up officials at

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the National Sheriff's Association who were in town for a conference.

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National Sheriff's Association in Charlotte. Dignitary duty assigned to these deputies,

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and McFadden directed these deputies to drive the Sheriff's Association members.

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So these are sheriffs and their entourages, I guess to

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drive these officials around Charlotte to bars and strip clubs.

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The deputies did as instructed they were on duty and

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used Mecklinberg County Sheriff's Office vehicles while driving the officials

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to the bars and strip clubs. I'm no prude, but

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I don't think that's appropriate. I don't think that the

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local sheriff's office needs to be running an uber service

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to strip clubs. Why are we paying the freight for that?

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Why are we paying the cost for that. McFadden also

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misused official resources in connection with travel. On information and belief,

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McFadden has used the county credit cards to pay for

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upgrades on hotel rooms and flights. This is in violation

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of policy requiring economy class travel. On information and belief,

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McFadden has used vehicles for personal travel, including driving to

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his wife's family reunion in South Carolina. McFadden has also

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misused a f resources for the benefit of friends and

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political supporters, Specifically on information and belief. Nickfadden has ordered

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patrol deputies to check on the businesses of his friends

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and supporters, even if those deputies would ordinarily be doing

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something more pressing. Normally, these businesses would need to hire

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off duty law enforcement to obtain a similar level of service.

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Once again, those are taxpayer funded cruisers and personnel, and

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he's sending them to his friends and political supporters' places.

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Then there is his weaponization of the Office of Professional Compliance,

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which is basically the internal affairs division inside the Sheriff's office.

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McFadden directed this office to initiate investigations of deputies, detention officers,

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and civilian staff based on his personal animosity towards them

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when there was no suspicion of any actual misconduct. So

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he's initiating internal affairs investigations against people inside his own outfit.

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I mentioned this yesterday. It's in the petition. When he

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took over, there was twice as many employees as there

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are now. Right now, I think there's like seven hundred

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and seventy employees, and when he took over, I think

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there was like thirteen hundred. People don't want to work

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for him. This is what the people who are quitting

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are telling the media. Again, this has been known for years.

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But it's not his fault. He'll tell you. That's what

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he says about all these allegations. None of this stuff

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is his fault. Okay, he used a racial slur, but

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that wasn't his fault. It was that, according to him,

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he got flustrated. He was flustrated by his command staff

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not doing what he told them to do, or not

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being loyal enough. And that was his real problem, was

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that he he trusted people and then they stabbed him

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in the back and he got frustrated, and that's why

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he needed to use the racial epithet. Not his faults.

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Hey McFadden intervened in at least two internal affairs investigations

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to protect a field training officer as well as a major,

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because they were both loyal to him, they were in

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his good graces. In the first incident, internal affairs found

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that the field training officer at the issue had falsified

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a doctor's note, which would normally be a firing offense.

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McFadden personally appeared at the hearing and refused to allow

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the review board to recommend the officer's termination despite the

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board's finding of the falsification of the doctor's note. As

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a result, the Sheriff's office became saddled with an officer

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who became effectively unswearable in court, right because that's part

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of their record. And so now if you try to

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call this person like something happens at the jail. You

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need them to testify. You can't because they're impeachable because

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there's a finding that they falsified the doctor's note, so

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you cannot put them on the stand. That's why it's

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a fireable offense. They were unswearable in court and no

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longer suitable for field duty, all because McFadden wanted to

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protect a dishonest employee who was personally loyal to him.

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In the second incident, a major, also a favorite of McFadden's,

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was accused of being complicit in allowing a field training

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officer to falsify the time records. The Internal Affairs found

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there was substantial evidence to support her involvement, but McFadden

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came to her hearing and would not allow the Internal

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Affairs panel to sustain the allegation, nor would he allow

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them to demote or terminate her. The major was also

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allowed to ridicule and disrespect her supervisor during the hearing

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without any admonishment. This major then sat on the Internal

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Affairs hearing panel for the field training officer who had

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falsified the doctor's note, and she sided with McFadden not

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determinate the employee and then McFadden promoted this major to

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the position of chief. This is corruption. What these allegations

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spell out is corruption. All right, if you're listening to

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it makes sense that McFadden would keep the unswearable deputy

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if I recall correctly. Not my fault. McFadden is also

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unswearable due to past conduct as a CMPD officer. Yes,

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I believe, I believe that is correct. Kevin says, I

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worked at CMPD for thirty years and there were a

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lot of people like McFadden. They jockey and politic for

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prestigious positions because they want to dress fancy and feel

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important rather than do the job. Once they get the position,

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they can't help but abuse it because they think they

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are untouchable, and in a lot of cases they are.

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Jim says past Mecklenburg sheriff CW. Kid was taking prisoners

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to the beach to work on his motel back in

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the eighties. Wow, that was before my time, but that

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would not surprise me. On the text line, Anthony says

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the state of Connecticut did away with the election of

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sheriffs due to just what you are talking about, patronage

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and the like. The grumpy major says, you talked about

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deputies being unusable in court due to their internal affairs record.

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McFadden falls into that scene group due to internal affairs

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investigations while at CMPD. It's called the Giglio rule, and

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guess what it was his fault. I love it when

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you go to call your county commissioner who's supposed to

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represent you. In my case, Vilma Leak. She doesn't have

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any voicemail on the phone number. She doesn't take any calls.

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I've called her a couple of times over the last

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six or seven years and told her that McFadden is

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a problem, it needs to be audited, and she has

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never called me back. We aren't being represented by people

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who care about the people who are voting for them.

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They only care about the people who pay the bills.

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And that's the worst part about this city is nothing

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here gets done because we don't have enough money to

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influence the people who need to do the things. Yeah,

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I mean, this is part of the concern, is that. Yeah,

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I mean, you get this guy out, but then, you know,

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is the new boss the same as the old boss?

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You know? Let me get Alex on real quick. Hello Alex,

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welcome to the show. Happy, Hey, I'm good. What's up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just want to say I was born and

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raised in Charlotte, and I still live here, and over

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the years have seen this city and this state put

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people in positions of power who are so crooked. There's

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still to stink off a dog turd, no.

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Speaker 1: Man, oh, I say, okay, well, thank you, Alex. It

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does seem like it's gotten worse. Charlotte used to have

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a record and was proud of its record of being

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a clean government city, and that has taken the beating

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over the last ten to fifteen years or so. From

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the petition. Marcia Crenshaw Hill. She was an employee of

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the Sheriff's office for thirteen years. A sergeant, she worked

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in the detention center. She observed that when officers were

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assaulted by inmates, the inmates were not charged, and if

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charges were ever filed, they were dropped for unclear or

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spurious reasons, all involving allegations of fault on the part

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of the victim. In other words, the officer. Crenshaw Hill

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observed that the frequency of weapons, drugs, and contraband in

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the jail increased significantly after McFadden took office. She saw

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how McFadden changed policies and his non enforcement of and

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add hoc exceptions or case by case on the fly

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exceptions to existing policies created unsafe conditions in the jail.

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For example, before McFadden, inmates in single cell confinement, in

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other words, they're placed in a cell alone, usually for

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disciplinary or safety reasons. They Before McFadden, these people were

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not allowed to have pencils or soda bottles or cans.

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That's a standard correctional policy because prisoners could and sometimes

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did harm themselves with these items or make them into weapons.

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McFadden relaxed these policies to appease inmates and the inmates families.

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I honestly think this is the key here. I think

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it's the families of the inmates and the people that

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go through the jail, the residents. Right this whole kid

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glove euphemistic treatment that he gives the inmates, and he

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gives them his personal cell phone number, gives the families

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of the inmates his cell phone number, and then they

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call him directly to complain about anything that goes wrong

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in the jail against their son or daughter or family member,

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like oh, they're sleeping on they're sleeping on the floor,

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and how dare you let them sleep on the floor

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and all this and so then he makes exceptions for them.

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And I think he sees the families and the innates

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as his constituency. I think this is the key. I

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think that he is expecting their support for him, which

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makes sense if you have a regular jail population, like

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most of the crimes are committed by you know, a

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limited cent of the population. But if all of those

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criminals that keep getting re arrested, you get all of

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their families to keep voting for you as sheriff because

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like in the past, I remember talking to former Sheriff

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Jim Pendograph when Democrats activists tried to go into the

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jail to register voters in his jail, and he was

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like no, he was like, generally speaking, inmates in the

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jail aren't hot to trot to vote for the sheriff.

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But what if you flip that dynamic, What if you

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cater to the inmates and their families, right, wouldn't that

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redound to your electoral benefit. Before McFadden, inmates would lose

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visitation rights if they violated rules. Now, if jail officials

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restrict visitation in response, to inmates misbehavior, the jailers worry

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that McFadden is going to overrule them to appease the

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inmates and the families. Prisoners then increased their hoarding of

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contraband because they believed McFadden would allow them to have it,

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despite policies to the contrary. As a result, crenshaw Hill

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observed that inmates became more emboldened to hoard contraband and

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break jail rules. In twenty twenty, crenshaw Hill was stabbed

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in the neck by an inmate inside that inmate's cell.

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They were doing an inspection a shakedown looking for contraband.

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The wound missed her artery narrowly that would have killed her. Okay,

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despite an inmate attempting to murder her, McFadden was never

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willing to lay fault with that inmate, always and only

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with blaming his own employees. In communications with others, McFadden

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blamed crenshaw Hill, not the inmate. McFadden contended that crenshaw

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Hill had violated a policy by entering the inmate's cell.

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In fact, crenshaw Hill had not violated any such policy

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by entering the cell for the contraband search because she

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had a supervisor and multiple other deputies with her, as

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the policy required. Crenshaw Hill was out of work on

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workers' comp for over a year. At the end of

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the year, she was fired. Kevin Canty, former chief deputy.

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He witnessed McFadden initiate internal investigations into employees who had

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done nothing wrong simply because McFadden appeared to dislike them

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or did not view them as personally loyal to him.

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McFadden pressured Canty into recommending that the Sheriff's office that

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he fired the head of HR and the director of

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business Operations, even though Kanty said they had done nothing wrong.

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McFadden could have terminated them based on their act Will status,

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but he didn't want to do it himself. He wanted

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Canty to do it. He wanted a sock puppets report

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from a subordinate finding that they committed misconduct. And when

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Kanty didn't do it, that's when he was at odds

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with McFadden, and then he quit and he told us

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all about that story when he was in studio with us.

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Then there's Juan Delgado, an officer from four through twenty

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twenty two, and he witnessed McFadden make verbal in person

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promises to inmates inconsistent with security policies, but he never

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would change the policies. McFadden could change the policies, but

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he never would. He would just give these exceptions, these

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case by case ad hoc decisions, and then the jailers

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come in and they're like, well, no, we're following the policies,

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And then McFadden comes down on the jailers. Is it

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any wonder why he's lost about half of his staff?

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the petition seeking the removal of MECKLAMURK County Sheriff Gary

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not my fault McFadden. One of the petitioners, Juan Delgado,

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twenty year veteran of the sheriff's office. He witnessed McFadden

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make oral in person promises to inmates inconsistent with security policies. Then,

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when McFadden left the jail after making those promises, Delgado

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and the line deputies under him would have to explain

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to now irate and sometimes violent inmates that staff were

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going to follow the written policies until they were changed.

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So think about this scenario, right, you got an inmate

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who's acting up but has somehow, you know, had some

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interaction with not my fault McFadden in the past, and

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he has gotten McFadden's phone number and gave the phone

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number to the inmates family. And so mcfatten and is

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now kind of buddy chump pals with the inmate. And

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McFadden says, fine, fine, you can carry the contraband you

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can violate the policy. We'll let you get away with it. Whatever.

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So now you're the jailer, and now you got this

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inmate who is saying, I get to do this thing.

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You can't tell me what to do. I got the

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sheriff on my side, and the jailer says, no, we're

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following the policy until the sheriff changes the policy. And

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the policy has not been changed. So we are following

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the policy, which then angers the inmate. Now the inmate

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is mad at the jailer. You can see how this

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creates a dangerous workplace for these jailers. Delgado also witnessed

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McFadden make oral in person promises to deputies that were

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inconsistent with policies without actually changing those policies. Delgado was

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informed by inmates that McFadden gave out his personal phone

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number to them and their families. When inmates broke prison

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rules and were disciplined according to the policy, they and

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their families would call the sheriff directly to complain. McFadden

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then blamed the middle managers like Delgado, or the rank

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and file employees for enforcing jail policies. McFadden possessed authority

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to change jail policies that he disliked, but he didn't

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do so. He simply reacted to complaints by inmates and

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family members on an ad hoc basis, again a case

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by case basis. Because Delgado insisted on following jail policies

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as written without these exceptions, he attracted McFadden's wrath. Shortly

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before his retirement, McFadden summoned Delgado into his office and

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threatened him, saying, quote, I am going to get you.

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Delgado retired shortly thereafter. Then there is the petitioner, Brian Adams.

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Brian Adams retired after thirty years of service as a

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major in the Sheriff's office. Each year the Sheriff's office

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conducts a promotional process for individuals looking to get a promotion.

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Candidates have to pass all of the phases of the

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process in order to be considered for the promotion. The

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first phase is a written test. Everybody has to score

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a seventy or above in order to advance to phase two.

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If they fail the written exam, then they automatically are disqualified.

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But McFadden undermines the process and promotes those who are

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in his favor. While in charge of training, Adams witnessed

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McFadden routinely circumvent policies that he disliked regarding the promotion

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and training process. Even though McFadden had substantial authority to

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change policies and regulations regarding these promotions, he never did so. Rather,

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he simply he ignored the policies in an ad hoc

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fashion in order to hire and promote the candidates that

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he personally preferred. He valued candidates for hiring and promotion

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based on their loyalty to him personally, not on their

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qualifications or job performance. And by the way he has

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said this, he has said this repeatedly in interviews that

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his demands for loyalty like he wants people around him

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that are loyal to sheriff. Make sure they're loyal to

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the sheriff. In all of this, he says, there's a

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quote of McFadden's if you want to eat, you have

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to provide something, and that if they wanted to advance,

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they needed to stay on quote team Sheriff. What McFadden

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meant by this was that employees needed to demonstrate personal

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loyalty to him by going outside the chain of command

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and reporting to McFadden personally about their coworkers and supervisors.

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That would help them remain in his good graces and

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to be considered for promotions and desirable assignments. Thus, Adams

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and others watched McFadden develop a culture of internal informants,

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which predictably rendered much of the Sheriff's office workforce paranoid

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and afraid to question anything the sheriff said or did,

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even when misguided or unethical. McFadden also developed a culture

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in which personal loyalty to him was the paramount value

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in policies and procedures designed to protect staff were routinely

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00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:31,920
ignored based on his personal whims. McFadden promoted one deputy

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00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,599
detention officer to a sergeant within six months of her

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00:36:34,599 --> 00:36:39,119
being hired. Because she was on Team Sheriff, she acted

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as a de facto informant. This deputy was not prepared

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for the demands of being a sergeant and was later

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00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,199
demoted because she was overwhelmed by the work. He promoted

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an unqualified sergeant to captain because she was on Team Sheriff.

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This deputy had failed the captain's exam. Adam's training department

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removed her from the captain training program. McFadden, though, intervened,

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insisting shed be reinstated and continue in the training program,

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which had never been done before. This same sergeant later

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arrived late to a training exercise that would have been

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disqualifying for her, but no McFadden again intervened to insist

542
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that the training department schedule a makeup session for her

543
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,519
and her alone, never been done before. When reviewing candidates

544
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for promotion to captain, McFadden insisted that this sergeant would

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be promoted over several other qualified candidates who had passed

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the written exam and had completed the required training without incident.

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McFadden promoted this candidate over better qualified competitors because of

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her perceived loyalty to him. Again, the word for this

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is corruption. All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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