William D. Gore was elected as the 29th Sheriff of San Diego County in June of 2010. Sheriff Gore oversees one of the largest Sheriff’s Departments in the nation with over 4,200 staff. His department handles detentions, patrol, courts, licensing and regional forensic support. Sheriff Gore is well known for his collaborative approach to law enforcement including his spearheading of the Law Enforcement Coordination Center (LECC). Sheriff Gore's law enforcement career spans 47 years. Sheriff Gore graduated from Crawford High School, holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of San Diego and a Master's Degree from Seattle University. A Fun Fact is that Sheriff Gore plays a, "Seeing Eye Person for his 12-year old blind Lab."
Sheriff provides police capabilities for 9 unincorporated zones and many incorporated cities. That is over 1 million people overall. He has to manage an average daily population of about 6000 inmates in the various jails. In 2012 they opened a women's detention facility. He is a big advocate of criminal justice re-alignment that improves many areas, such as, crowding in jails., provide counseling to criminals before they are released, give them tools to improve their lives once they are out of jail and train them to integrate back into the community.
He said that 95% of the inmates come back to the community and so they try to train them on anger management, new jobs skills, etc. Crime in San Diego county is exceptionally low compared to the rest of U.S. They provide computer-based video training to all police officers at the Miramar Training Center to simulate real-life situations and it is extremely effective to train on quick reflex actions, but in court these actions by police are sometimes tough to defend. As far as immigrations cases he said only 41% of cases get reported to ICE and usually minor offenses, such as, DUI, women abuse, etc. are not reported, especially in sanctuary states.
In the end, our club president Bill Sutton awarded the Joshua Malawi school certificate to Sheriff Gore that represents donation of school supplies by DMSB to schools in Malawi in the name of the speaker.
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