I have no ax to grind. This was a forum about Daniel Steve Glover and it turned to the Sheriff’s race. You attacked me and I have to set the record straight.
I think Ronnie May is a good person. I think he was a good investigator but he does not have what it takes to run a department. Facts are facts, not everyone is a good manager and Sheriff May has proved time after time that he is not a good manager.
There is a big difference between being friends with the Sheriff and being an employee of the Sheriff. When Buddy was Sheriff, the dept would have to hire a new employee about once or twice a year. That would include all employee’s, Deputy, Dispatches, jailers, and office employees. Since May 2007 the Sheriff’s office has hired over 20 new employees. No new positions were created, employees quit and their position filled. This does not include office personal. The Assistant Chief Deputy just quit in Nov 2009. That is unheard of.
http://www.colbertcounty.org/sheriff/employment.html Why are so many people quitting their jobs? Because the moral is at an all time low. Some would say pay, which is not it. One Deputy quit and went to Tuscumbia PD, taking a pay cut. Three went to Sheffield PD, taking a pay cut. So pay is not it. The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. The best way to describe it would be by stating the facts. The Sheriff does not know what is going on in the dept. I have seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears orders giving out by the Sheriff to Deputies in meetings. The deputies do not follow his orders and he does not do anything about it. When deputies tell the Sheriff about it he gets defensive and states he will look into it.
The above is just the top of the ice berg. One Deputy pulled out his gun and pointed it at the head of another Deputy for stepping on his boot. The only thing done was the Deputy got 3 days off. He should have been fired for it. One Reserve Deputy who is over 80 pulled his gun and fired it by accident, almost hitting a person. He should have been retired. He did several years later.(Good bye old friend. One Deputy pulled his gun and again fired it by accident and denied it every happened. When they pulled the video, it showed him doing it. Nothing was done. How can this Deputy ever testify in court again after being caught lying? This is why everyone is quitting. This is why morale is low. Let’s do not forget about the three jailers caught bringing things into the jail and the women dispatch caught having sex with an inmate at the jail and the deputy sheriff that ran off the road and failed his drug test. The Colbert County Sheriff’s Office is out of control.
There is so much more going on. The buck stops at the Sheriff’s doorstep. If he does not know what is going on or he allows what is going on he is just as wrong. Sometimes it is just time to retire. Maybe he has lost interests, maybe he is busy with other things, but he is paid to keep the dept going and protects the citizens of Colbert County. When morale is as low as it is, employees do not do their best; they do not try as much. That my friend puts all of us at danger.