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Is Sheriff Michael Hennessey of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department Too PC?

After reading the links below you may think so.

Sheriff Michael Hennessey. San Francisco Sheriff's Department. San Francisco Deputy Sheriff's Association.

The San Francisco Sheriff's Department News Blog

Click above to visit the official site

With over 800 deputies, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department

is the nations largest law enforcement agency with no patrol function.

The Sheriff Was Never a cop!

The Sheriff hired an Assistant Sheriff that Was a Convicted Killer! Link

The Undersheriff is the First Lesbian To Hold The Title! Link

My Sexual Harassment Teacher was Fired For Sexual Harassment! Link

My Code Of Ethics Teacher Was Fired For Drugs & Prostitution Involvement!

Acupuncture For Convicted Criminals!

A Porn Star Who Passed an Oral Interview & Background Investigation! Link

You Can't Make Up Stuff This Good.

The proof are in the links below!

Click on sheriff to visit official site

This is my boss Sheriff Michael Hennessey. He's a nice guy, but a lot of people disagree with his politics, and the way he runs his department. What they don't realize is that the good liberals of San Francisco got exactly what they wanted; A sheriff who is a lawyer and was never a cop. But isn't that what you would expect from the voters of San Francisco.

The truth is.... Sheriff Hennessey has done a lot for his department. During his time as sheriff, the department has grown, almost doubled in fact. He has built several state of the art jails, and has tried to rehabilitate 1000's of criminals. He has also been very lenient about who he hires. He'll give anyone a chance, and in some cases a second chance. He'll hire people other departments wouldn't even consider. That may not be a good thing. You should see some of the folks he's given a gun and badge to. Many Deputies have said, "If the shit hits the fan call 911." Although when there is a crisis, I am always amazed how well the department comes through, so he must be doing something right. Sheriff Hennessey has pushed political correctness to the edge by appointing and promoting people who many feel did not deserve the promotion. Some of his minority promotions even had other minorities wondering what the hell he was thinking.

A little about the Sheriff from his official site below.

Sheriff Hennessey is from Iowa originally. He graduated from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 1970 with a BA degree in history, and then graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law. After he received his state bar, he accepted an assignment as Legal Counsel to then Sheriff Richard Hongisto.

In 1975, he founded the San Francisco Jail Project, a legal assistance program for indigent prisoners with civil legal problems and provided training for law students and new lawyers while offering technical assistance to the Sheriff's Department. He managed the Jail Project until May 1979, when friends in the Department and civic-minded San Franciscans encouraged him to seek election as Sheriff even though he was never a peace officer. He is the only Sheriff in California who is a lawyer.

ACHIEVEMENTS AS SHERIFF:

Mike Hennessey has served as Sheriff for over 20 years. As Sheriff, Hennessey has won nationwide recognition for the success of his minority recruitment programs for women and minorities, including gay men and lesbians. His staff reflects the diversity of San Francisco's population.

He has increased employee training more than 500% and has received 15 consecutive annual awards from the state for "Excellence in Training." He is one of the nation's pioneers in establishing "new generation/direct supervision" jails that have proven to be safer and more cost effective than traditional facilities, typically designed around linear cell blocks.

Sheriff Hennessey's pioneering efforts to rehabilitate prisoners include a wide range of prisoner education and substance abuse recovery programs such as Acupuncture, and G.E.D. classes that emphasize the continuation of school and living chemical free.

Other programs include horticulture, an organic gardening therapy project, and Tree Corps, which offers ex-offenders employment by planting and caring for trees in major thoroughfares in San Francisco.

Most recently, Sheriff Hennessey has worked with victim rights advocates to create Resolve to Stop the Violence (RSVP), an anti-violence curriculum for prisoners who have been convicted of violent crimes.

With all these credentials and accomplishments, why do the same old criminals continue to return to jail year after year? Is it all a feel good politically correct sham? Has Sheriff Hennessey taken the punishment out of punishment, and turned the San Francisco jail system into a revolving door for drug dealers and the homeless? It depends on who you ask.

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