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Sheriff’s Office ‘Clean Sweep’ Celebrates One Year; Century Is Next
September 23, 2011
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office marked the first anniversary of the its “Operation Clean Sweep” program Thursday, and the next one will be in Century.
Thursday’s anniversary was marked with a sweep of the Mayfair neighborhood in the program with the goal to rid an area of crime, criminals and trash.
In the past year, Operation Clean Sweep has result in 66 arrests, the removal of 364 tons of debris, and 33 code violations with $1,600 in fines.
The next Operation Clean Sweep is scheduled for Monday, October 17 in Century. In the North Escambia area, previous sweeps have taken place in Cottage Hill last March (read more) and Cantonment last April (read more).
Pictured top: U.S. Marines, accompanied by the Sheriff’s Office Mounted United, during an Operation Clean Sweep last March in Cottage Hill. Pictured inset: Deputy Randy Frye writes a ticket during the Cottage Hill Clean Sweep. Pictured below: During a Cantonment Clean Sweep, Youth from the Greater First Baptist Church pick up trash from along Booker Street. NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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5 Responses to “Sheriff’s Office ‘Clean Sweep’ Celebrates One Year; Century Is Next”
I think this is a good effort on the part of Sheriff Morgan and the Department. I do not know if we can accurately measure the effectiveness vs cost. What other solutions are there, exile, a .50BMG, bulldozers, you tell me? I know the predecessor and shooter all seem like a fading nightmare. Keep up the good work Sheriff Morgan, you have my vote.
Thom gunn ask why drug users are being sent to prison? I would guess because drugs are illegal, and if they are sent to prison for it I would also guess too that it wasn’t their first time breaking the law with illegal drugs. Just a guess!
@interested A better question would be why are drug users being sent to prison? They are non violent criminals and incarcerating them is just making out county go broke. Now i know that drug use can lead to vandalism and another of assorted crimes, but people who dont use drugs do them aswell, and those crimes should be punished the way they are, but drug users are not bad people and using drugs doesn’t mean your going to go and destroy things. Perhaps if we weren’t so focused on sending users to jail we could stop all of the murders and the like from happening. Our police force is underfunded but we spend 20k a year housing harmless pot head while people are out robbing banks.
The problem is not how much it costs us to prevent crime from escalating,
the problem is just how effective it really was then and now.
First all the Drug users were not picked up even in those areas that were
already cleaned, (some but not all).
Are the police and the sheriffs hands tied by the druggies who vandalize you
if you do anything to them. Why are known drug addicts still on the streets
everywhere? Why is drug use up in all our plants around here? Why is
anyone exempt from our laws, and why do our police turn a blinds eye?
How about a follow up on those communities those were first in this “Operation Clean Sweep” of a year ago with interviews of residents and photos of the before, during and now, so we can see if this is really making a difference. I’m a bit skeptical that this is nothing more than another nearing election dog and pony show being performed at taxpayer expense much like Operation Brownsville was.
How much does each one of these “operations” cost in the ripple effect among all of the agencies in additional man hours, equipment use and maintenance, fuel and other not so obvious expenditures like court and housing inmates for minor charges? Has anyone put a total price tag on what one of these operations really costs yet? Come fourth with the public records requests and dig into the true costs verses benefits of clean sweeps. If they prove to be an effective expenditure of funds, then keep them going. But I think you’ll find is nothing more than an expensive street cleaning operation where after a short time one couldn’t tell if it ever took place to begin with.
Here’s one example of costs: to dispose 364 tons of trash at $22. per ton would have cost the taxpayers more than $8,000. That’s a bit more than the $1,600 collected in fines.