QUOTES
00:42 "Massachusetts has had the largest influx of illegal immigrants than any other state in the United States if you can believe that and we're 2,300 miles from the border."
10:11 "If we stand down while people are burning buildings, destroying our constituents' businesses, attacking them, killing them and we do nothing, there's only one question left for the people of this nation and that is this, why do we need America's sheriffs?"
15:45 "They're running political agendas to satisfy their own political challenges and the president of the United States is making decisions and running a government based on solving the problems for the people in spite of the people who are playing politics."
16:03 "Washington, look it's broken. Congress is broken. They've turned the US capital into a political playground on both sides of aisle."
18:15 "Police chiefs are appointed by mayors. And so if they have family and they have a career, if they dare to step outside of the politics or the political agenda of one particular mayor that may have hired them, they potentially lose their job."
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SUMMARY
In this episode of the National Police Association Podcast, Sgt. Betsy Smith interviews Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson of Bristol County, Massachusetts. Today, Thomas comments on the detrimental effect of illegal immigrants from the south settling in Massachusetts.
Thomas then discusses the role of law enforcement in keeping communities safe and how the current political climate is undermining this responsibility. He also remarks on the difficult position of police chiefs and the difference of sheriffs as they are elected officials and answerable only to the people.
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HIGHLIGHTS
00:27 Southern border security issues
04:09 President Trump's support of law enforcement
10:30 The role of sheriff's and law enforcement in society
16:46 Inherent differences between sheriffs and police chiefs
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