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If you eliminate qualified immunity for law enforcement, they’ll all leave the profession. You won’t have anybody doing the job. Why would they stay? I think that demand is a non-starter, for good reason. The other issues mentioned are well worth discussing.

> they’ll all leave the profession

$100k a year, plus a pension with medical and $100k a year for life?

Let 'em leave. Most won't. They'll pretend they will, of course, but then they'll realize that twenty bucks an hour at Home Depot won't cut it.

They love their 4 bedroom places in Gilroy and Morgan Hill. You think their wives will let them? "meet my hubby, he works at Lowes"

Legit LOL...….Portola Valley? Really? A "playa" in the race conversation in America?

I'd laugh if I wasn't crying…..

The first gesture toward “transparency”in Portola Valley is to have the sheriffs who are locked in their private offices near the soccer field lift one or several of their window blinds. There is visual access to all other town employees.

It is horrid to have a Sheriff who was detained (subsequently released) by the FBI in a raid at a human trafficking operation. Per the PA Daily Post article linked below, a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request revealed "there was at least one minor in the brothel." The FBI operation has been referred to as "Operation Dollhouse", and was at an illegal brothel in Las Vegas, and during a Sheriff's convention. That this Sheriff was astoundingly re-elected does not bode well for policing that is understanding to a blend of cultures, genders, races, and economically disadvantaged. Portola Valley residents, which fund the SMC Sheriff's office, should drive for change or fund a Public Safety service of its own, which will have the transparency that is necessary for civil society.

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