Sheriff Mark Lamb

The border was a problem.

We had drugs coming in.

Where we are in Pinal County, this is a marijuana corridor.

So it was not uncommon to get 1,000-pound, 2,000-pound loads of marijuana.

Backpackers coming across the border, packing 50-pound packs of marijuana into your community, not to mention meth and other things.

And so we were struggling still with the border when I first came in.

Internally, not crime-wise, internally, budget, relationships with the government within the county.

the the the Morale amongst the troops.

Those are all the internal things we had to deal with and then on the outward stuff We had to deal with the you know, reducing crime between myself and the county attorney We've successfully reduced our crime index every year when crime has been on the rise we've been reducing our crime index and there is no secret sauce and

It's hold people accountable when they need to be held accountable and treat people with respect and dignity and protect their constitutional rights when not.

So if you do that, then people want to live in your community.

I don't want to live in a community where they don't hold people accountable.

That's lawlessness.

You're asking for a problem.

I want to live in a community where I know that they treat me good, the cops are our friends, and they're going to go after the bad guys when they need to.

And that's kind of what we, in a nutshell, in a very simplified way, that's what we've done.

I just get to take the credit for the work that the other people do.

I set the vision.

But, you know, look, I still get out there and work with the guys.

I put the vest on.