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What’s a “Fed Kick”? – it is the result of extreme left-wing Federal Judges who see themselves as legislators even though they were never elected. They decided to reward the left-wing soft-on-crime democrats who have stymied Prison Construction by arbitrarily ruling in favor of criminals can-do-no-wrong attorneys mandating thousands of felons get released early due to overcrowding. Without continuing the rant further (in to things like illegal immigration, deliberate budget cuts, enviro lawsuits aimed at thwarting construction, state funding raids of local government, etc) the focus is on the Sheriff and his decisions.

Thousands of Car Thieves, Dope Dealers and the like get little or no jail time due to overcrowding. This is because of what law enforcement call a “fed-kick”, meaning a get out of jail free card for a convict due to the State’s refusal to build Prisons.

And so, faced with a pile of drugs and a mountain evidence, Zamudio confessed to drug trafficking. A judge sentenced him to 3 years behind bars.

One day later, on June 28, Zamudio walked out of the Riverside jail a free man. The jail was too full, so he got to go home. Forty-two other inmates were also let go early that same day – including five more drug dealers, four car thieves, three burglars, three fraudsters, a domestic abuser who a violated his probation and a bookkeeper who had embezzled more than $65,000 from a construction company.

So what has Sheriff Sniff done about this disturbing situation?

Mass Layoffs and hyperbole in an attempt to get his own way in a budget fight? In 2011, he issued 800 Pink Slips and left 500 Prison Beds Vacant in order to try and gain leverage in a budget fight.

Earlier in 2011, after much debate about the location of a new jail (which is still under construction and being argued about), a little gem popped out near the end of the article:

Ironically, the county recently completed an $80 million upgrade of the Larry Smith Regional Detention Facility in Banning, ten miles west of the Whitewater site. The expansion added 582 beds to the Banning jail. County Sheriff Stan Sniff announced this month he would be closing 500 of those new beds due to budget cuts.

Ouch.

Currently in 2017, the Sheriff ran a huge deficit even after getting another $18 Million from the County.

Worse, the Sheriff said he is going to leave the brand new jail empty. Does he care at all about the “Fed-Kick” problem? Or does the desire to assert his authoritah over the Riverside County Board of Supervisors govern his actions?

The jail is being counted on to add capacity to the county’s overcrowded five-jail system. To free up space, the county is expected to release almost 6,000 inmates early this year to comply with a federal court order to relieve overcrowding, according to sheriff’s officials. That problem will worsen, Sniff said, when the existing Indio jail is demolished and the new one stays vacant.

Supervisor Kevin Jeffries Says it best:

Sniff “needs to stay vigilant,” Jeffries said. “But he also needs to look internally and start moving sworn deputies out of administrative desk jobs and back into the field.”

“With our budget projections, he has to meet us halfway. We need the new jail opened and staffed. We need more deputies on patrol,” the supervisor added.

“Just like the Board of Supervisors, the sheriff is also at a crossroads. We either all find new ways to cut costs while still providing essential services or we all go bankrupt arguing about whose fault it is.”

So not only is Sniff ignoring legitimate and helpful advice, those that actually are working in the jail are having issues. Check out this story in the local media about sexual harassment. Please note the off-the-record sources I am talking to have told me tons of stories about Captains, Lieutenants and the like having sexual relationships with subordinates and it severely affecting the delivery of law enforcement services. The culture under Sheriff Stan Sniff is rampant:

The civil lawsuit claims that one recent supervisor – Sgt. Aaron Martin – began flirting with Smoak after initially offering a chance for possible promotion by mentoring her.

Smoak admitted to flirting back, but said that Martin told her he just wanted to have sex. When she refused, Smoak said, Martin allegedly began verbally abusing her and cutting back her overtime, a financially devastating development for the single mother of two.

“That put a strain upon her financially because she wasn’t able to make ends meet,” said Manuel Corrales Gilleon, Smoak’s attorney.

See the pattern? We’ve written a lot about retaliation, intimidation and shattered morale under Stan Sniff’s reign of terror. It is pervasive and everywhere.

The results? Monster increases in crime. IT is time to hold Stan Sniff accountable and retire him at the ballot box.

Wouldn’t it be nice?

Why would it surprise anyone to see the Sheriff do this, given his well documented abuse of the CCW system in favor of friends, promoting ass-monkeys, covering up corruption, harassing dissenters, destroying careers, conspiring to decimate the banning PD, tolerating blatant corruption, fostering a culture of screwing over contract cities and on and on and on…

See the embedded screenshot of yet another source that asked for anonymity due to the culture of threats, intimidation and tyranny of the sheriff.

That is one of Stan Sniff’s cars. I am told it is the same car another deputy reported seeing him leave the office (also known as the second floor gulag) with a young woman in the passenger’s sea int. There is no picture or proof so I can not assert that Mr. Sniff was seeking horizontal refreshment / having an affair. All I was told is that his arm was on the seat behind her and “they looked really friendly”… but if the Sheriff is having an affair(s) I am sure that will come out in due time like the avalanche of evidence and testimony of rampant corruption in the Riverside Sheriff’s Office.

But I digress.

At one point in my life I owned a black Ford Mustang with a custom built rollcage in it. I got five tickets in the short time I owned the car (and had to replace the tires twice in 70,000 miles). I would have loved to have been able to flash my badge to get out of one or more of those tickets.

It is alleged by many, (and unlike the incident in Palm Desert I have no proof other than allegation) that the Sheriff also wormed his way out of a ticket in the City of Riverside as well.

In addition, more than one member or former member of the Sheriff’s department have told me that Chief Deputy Jason Horton was pulled over on a DUI recently and appears to have gotten out of it. (Similar to the Riverside Ticket rumor related to Sniff, all I have is hearsay evidence of Horton’s issue and a lot of people that talk about his drinking exploits openly)

Unlike Sniff’s Riverside incident, these text threads I was forwarded prove that Sniff’s vehicle was pulled over in the Palm Desert Area. IT looks like the Sniffster has leaks all over his department and the wall of intimidation has multiple cracks in it.

Stan Sniff has lost control of his department and his ability to cover up malfeasance has been shattered.

For extra effect – look at this text message exchange between two deputies. It is clear they resent the Sheriff’s behavior. The rest of us should too.

Ever wonder why I use Stan Sniff and corruption in the same sentence?

To be continued as we go to the next level in exposing the corruption that has defined Stan Sniff’s legacy as Sheriff.