Three candidates for police chief answered questions for two hours last night at a community forum in Charlottesville. Sandy Hausman listened-in and filed this report.
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Loudoun Sheriff Michael Chapman came to the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday night to publicly oppose ongoing work to study whether the county should create a police department, which would sideline the sheriff for most law enforcement duties.
Chapman arrived to personally deliver the quarterly significant incidents report a task he typically leaves to one of his subordinates but before getting to that spent several minutes defending his work as sheriff.
“In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officer Derek Chauvin, the nation has seen an unparalleled protest and riots, and attacks on the law enforcement profession like never before,” Chapman began. “While there are many instances of bad and even criminal conduct on the part of police officers, the vast, vast majority of the 700,000 law enforcement officers nationwide, representing 18,000 agencies and handling over 60 million citizen contacts every given year, remain committed t