Teacher Fired for Writing a Book

[khagler]

robkelk wrote:

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Dartz wrote:

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It's seems more like it's the local sheriff that's leading the witchhunt to me, either to score political points and secure his re-election (Do they really do that in the US?), ...

Apparently so, and it's always puzzled me. How can somebody who's declared him- or herself to be partisan be seen to uphold the law fairly?

The theory is that an elected position is more accountable than an appointed bureaucrat. It doesn't work in practice for sheriffs because sheriffs are cops, and cops are not accountable at all. On the other hand, they're also not any less fair than appointed police chiefs.