Operation Saturday Night Fever
Marion County Sheriff Frank Anderson announced a new program yesterday to get illegal guns off the street. Using $100,000 as seed money, Anderson hopes to use the money as a seed fund for Crimestoppers. The money would be used for people who report illegal guns. If you report the gun you get $500, but it must be picked up by the police.
I will give the Sheriff credit. He is taking a step, a small step, but a step nonetheless. My issue with the Sheriff has not been his commitment to public safety, but his absence in the public. I made it a point to do a Google search of the Sheriff to check which news stories he had appeared in talking about crime. I only came up with a handful, prior to yesterday’s news conference.
Anderson told me he’s been doing his job by running the department. I don’t doubt that, but I think it would make a lot of citizens feel better if they saw their Sheriff a lot more often.
