Where Do We Draw the Line?
The first time I remember meeting Ben (not his actual name) was at one of the schools. There was concern about safety with gang violence and other criminal activity. After the presentation there was a QA session and Ben provided three phone numbers to call. One was the local police department, one was for the Sheriff’s office and the last one he gave he said was his personal number. I had programmed all three into my phone but had only used one and never the other two. Ben had run for office as the Sheriff head cheese – which was not the official title but he had worked under the Sheriff head cheese not as a deputy but an acting sheriff and had run against the head cheese I don’t know how many times. He was running the year I dragged my husband to an adjoining neighborhood to support his campaign. I remember liking his facebook page which I guess at the time qualified me as an automatic member of ...