Sheriff's election

Watch your back. Everyone wants to look tough on crime

We have a challenger but I think the incumbent is pretty safe. Generally it takes a scandal or money problems to unseat a sheriff.

ETA, nevermind, you were talking about an open race.

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How many of you baws have a sheriff leaving office and already have a heated race going? It's getting rough in North La for several parishes. As a current deputy I am ready for this nightmare to end. Not knowing if you'll be gainfully employed come January is not a cool feeling. Still 5 more months.

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You’re a deputy and don’t know that you wouldn’t be unemployed until July 1st?

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Not knowing if you'll be gainfully employed come January is not a cool feeling. Still 5 more months.

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If you are doing your job competently, have not overtly endorsed or campaigned for someone and are not effectively a political appointee, you’ll likely be fine unless you’re part of a very small sheriff’s department.

Are you politically connected? If that was you’re avenue into the department, who that connection is will be possibly important. If they are powerful enough, you’re probably safe unless the new sheriff is looking to make a point..


Bottom line, odds are, you’re safe if you do you’re job without incident. FTR, my late step father was a deputy in Lafayette Parish and went through this. He got his job because he personally knew the sheriff though he had be a LEO prior in another part of the state. Lafayette Parish has a large sheriff’s department so there is enough turnover that they don’t have to fire people to give their friends a job. By that time he was working warrants, which is typically a sunset job, but almost no one was let go when the new sheriff took office. He even kept folks who actively campaigned against him and at least one guy who ran against him.

Good luck, baw.

Hopefully that moron, criminal Mike Cazes in West Baton Rouge loses. And then gets put in prison.

Being that's it's WBR though they'll re-elect him.