AFS Cinema
Follow the Law
RECEIVED Wed., July 22, 2015
Dear Editor,
As a retired police officer on my annual summer vacation to the city of Austin, I always look forward to reading my Austin Chronicle newspaper copy. I think of myself as both Boston Strong and Austin Weird. I consider myself conservative up in Boston, but when I land in Austin, I see myself much more of a moderate. I know Austin to be a blue island in a red state, but compared to Boston, not so blue.
As I read the interview with John Sisson [“Meet the Candidate: John Sisson,” News, July 17], who is running for sheriff, he sounds more liberal than many Massachusetts politicians and certainly more liberal than any county sheriff I know. The job of law enforcement is law enforcement, right? In the interview I see a candidate for sheriff who sounds far more political than a sheriff ought to be.
His gripes with the federal Secure Communities program are the exact same criticisms I hear from every liberal politician in Massachusetts. Sisson, like others elsewhere, talks about breaking up families or creating mistrust among immigrant communities. What opponents here and in Boston never talk about is that the only time anyone would ever be held under Secure Communities would be those actually arrested, not everyone who is pulled over.
We need politicians elected to office across the country who uphold the law and not selectively choose which laws to enforce. Travis County needs a lawman behind the badge.
As a retired police officer on my annual summer vacation to the city of Austin, I always look forward to reading my Austin Chronicle newspaper copy. I think of myself as both Boston Strong and Austin Weird. I consider myself conservative up in Boston, but when I land in Austin, I see myself much more of a moderate. I know Austin to be a blue island in a red state, but compared to Boston, not so blue.
As I read the interview with John Sisson [“Meet the Candidate: John Sisson,” News, July 17], who is running for sheriff, he sounds more liberal than many Massachusetts politicians and certainly more liberal than any county sheriff I know. The job of law enforcement is law enforcement, right? In the interview I see a candidate for sheriff who sounds far more political than a sheriff ought to be.
His gripes with the federal Secure Communities program are the exact same criticisms I hear from every liberal politician in Massachusetts. Sisson, like others elsewhere, talks about breaking up families or creating mistrust among immigrant communities. What opponents here and in Boston never talk about is that the only time anyone would ever be held under Secure Communities would be those actually arrested, not everyone who is pulled over.
We need politicians elected to office across the country who uphold the law and not selectively choose which laws to enforce. Travis County needs a lawman behind the badge.
Sergeant Sal Giarratani (ret.)
Boston, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
