Asheville Police Chief William Anderson held a press conference today to announce that the city would be hiring a civilian manager to oversee an “all-civilian” staff of evidence room keepers. No additional information about the audit appears to have been released. Needless to say, I am still a little miffed about the recent coverage of a drug bust that insinuated the, er, farmer, could not be trusted with his Second Amendment rights because he had an “anti-government stance.” Sure, I fumed for days. Only county government that loses rape kits and claims to use unaccounted-for confiscated weapons as rebar in the new jail, or city government that lets lots of evidence walk, should be trusted with a right to keep and bear arms. One common tater at the local daily’s site found it twisted that civilians should have to be hired to oversee the police.
by Leslee Kulba
Wild West blogger