In case you missed it, below are the results of the a standardized assessment completed covering law enforcement agencies throughout the United States of America. See below what quality of service the Anson County public funds were able to secure by the Anson County Sheriff’s Office. The appearance of potentially community harassing revenue generating arrests making up 50% of all arrests. Is this benefiting the community, or is it tarnishing records and preventing employment, advancement, educational opportunities, or many other doors of life from being opened?
This looks a lot like revenue generating policing that is likely based on race, given the statistics. Is this type of enforcement benefitting the county immediately by stopping real crimes that may harm others, or is this evidence of harassment towards half of the county’s population in a revenue generating scheme that damages futures?
Do you believe that adequately accounts for the over $4,000,000 ($4,077,795.00) that is budgeted for only the “Sheriff?” Are you getting what is expected? Is this a benefit or detriment to the county? It appears that 50% of those arrested are likely supplementing the county’s tax receipts with fines and court costs from low-level, nonviolent crimes. Nickel and diming the community, then surprised when those same people aren’t able to land a decent job or gain acceptance to the schools of their choice because of tarnished records.
Appropriated Expenses ’23-’24
- Jail – $1,624,683.00
- 911 Services – $976,922.00
- Domestic Violence Coalition – $246,677.00
- Emergency Management – $623,733.00
- Animal Shelter – $375,251.00
Estimated Revenues ’23-’24
- Sheriff – $373,359.00
- Jail – $33,200.00
- Domestic Violence Coalition – $246,617.00
- Emergency Management – $370,360.00
- 911 Services – $24,000.00
- Animal Shelter – $17,000.00
REVENUE ’23-’24
- Sheriff Fees / Judgements – $72,000.00
With low-level, nonviolent offenses being the cause of half of all arrests,
how many of these arrests were actually revenue generation over public safety?
Seeing the conviction of David Scott Burroughs
and the shocking crimes he committed,
then the lack of true punishment for those crimes is an indication that
it will happen again with an attempt that corrects Burroughs’ mistakes.
Burroughs could have devastated an innocent man’s life and landed him behind bars for years.
The complete omission of any jail time in his sentence is further evidence of a potentially corrupt judiciary.
Incidents like these cover for the ‘bad apples’ and actually show others within the department,
or employed by the state, WILL cover for these criminals. Others in law enforcement see
careers like this and it shifts their perspectives some,
but even slight movement could be onto a
slippery slope that slides them into criminality.
See Evidence Of The
Obvious Spread Of
Howell‘s Toxic Mentality
Throughout The
Anson County Sheriff’s Office







