Sheriff Mark Lamb

And I'll be the first to tell you, we're not in the business of good optics.

I mean, when you call us, we're expected to deal with problems.

Or if we find problems on the streets, then we're expected to deal with it.

We can't just look the other way.

And so we're not in the business of good optics usually.

And so what you see a lot of times is you see, we were seeing the politicians really start to create a rift between community and law enforcement.

And that undermines the rule of law.

And so what happens then is you start getting people, and this kind of goes to your question, it kind of starts getting people elected into office on the basis of we're gonna hold the police accountable or basically saying to the people, you're not wrong, the cops were wrong.

And that's dangerous.

And then what happens is,

you start undermining the rule of law.

You stop holding people accountable, and then you want to only hold cops accountable, putting body cameras on us, which we're okay.

I think we should have body cameras on all the politicians in Washington, D.C., right?

Put them on them.

But we have body cams, and now everything starts to change.

And so I could see where we were going.

I thought it was dangerous.

And so instead of being the guy that sits and just bitches about it, I thought, I'm going to do something about it.

So I'm standing there in our gang unit, you know, little room, and I just said, I'm going to run for sheriff.

They said, yeah, you're crazy.