UPDATES: On each page of the website we have added the date the page was created. This is to see how long it takes others to copy Rick's plans for our future. It seems we are having an impact as soon as a new plan is posted!!!!!!
We Are Having a Positive Impact on Pickens County!!!!!!!!
Sheriff Attempts To Copy The Clark for Sheriff Technology Plan
For Pickens County.
April 03, 2008- Pickens, SC. After 39 years in office, the Sheriff purchased ten laptops for Pickens County to "test". This "test" is only a few months after Rick Clark proposed his technology/community policing plan for the future. The Clark for Sheriff plan includes a wireless public safety network for all emergency services in Pickens County. The Clark for Sheriff plan includes immediate hotspots across the county for efficient access to the Records Management System (RMS) and other essential law enforcement activities.
The Sheriff's "technology plan" fails to mention why detectives are testing a technology plan that should be targeted toward the deputies in your neighborhood who need immediate information about criminals on your streets. Access to information that is supposed to be critical and dynamic to a road deputy's needs in your neighborhood does not lend itself well to a investigator whose is working a case a day or two after the crime.
The three substations in use now spread across 505 square miles of Pickens County does not seem to keep the deputy on the cutting edge of law enforcement as the current administration is trying to portray.
It is the fourth year of a four year political cycle. What will be the status of this "technology plan" on June 11, 2008, the day after the primary?
LEADERSHIP. INTEGRITY. INNOVATION.
Pickens County is no longer a small county in the Upstate of South Carolina that can ignore crime and our community problems. Pickens County can be the leader in South Carolina in crime prevention, law enforcement innovation, and using our community resources to make Pickens County one of the safest places in the nation.
To do this we must embrace change, not avoid it. We must provide our deputies the training, technology, and motivation to prevent and solve crime in Pickens County. Good old-fashioned police work must be combined with innovative technology to make Pickens County safer for tomorrow. It is this tomorrow that the Sheriff’s election is about in 2008. This election is about the future and not the past that the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office is trapped in now.
We must have a Sheriff who is trained in and is currently performing day-to-day law enforcement operations and understands what the deputy in your neighborhood needs to fight crime. It is essential to have a new sheriff who understands the needs for law enforcement today but most importantly for tomorrow. We can no longer rely on a Sheriff’s Office that is led by retirees of the past that are not leading us into the future. The time for positive change is 2008!
A Personal Note from Rick
Dear Pickens County Resident:
Thank you for visiting this site. Over the next few months I will knocking on a lot of your doors to meet you face to face as a candidate should. More importantly, I will be meeting with you at your home, church, work, and in the community to share my ideas of our bright future in Pickens County as your Sheriff should. A key aspect of this bright future is making Pickens County a safe place to live, work and raise a family.
That is what this campaign is about, the future. The Sheriff's primary election in June 2008 is not about this year or next year. The 2008 election is about the year 2010, 2020, and beyond. The decisions we make in 2008 will go a long way in determining the safety of our community in decades to come. That is why I am asking for your vote in June of 2008. We must prepare for the future by embracing change and innovation, not dwelling on the past.
day law enforcement operations and understands what the deputy in your neighborhood needs to fight crime. It is essential to have a new sheriff who understands the needs for law enforcement today but most importantly for tomorrow. We can no longer rely on a Sheriff’s Office that is led by retirees of the past that are not leading us into the future. The time for positive change is 2008!