Usually, when county sheriffs in North Carolina ask for money, they’re asking county Boards of Commissioners to fund their departments to a greater extent.
However, this week Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers is asking Guilford County residents to open up their purses, pocketbooks and checkbooks to support the NC Sheriffs’ Association (NCSA).
Press releases from the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department routinely offer updates on crimes or seek information on a missing person or a criminal suspect – but, this week, a press release called for people and local businesses to support the NCSA.
“Responding to the increasing number of people wanting to assist law enforcement officials and build a stronger partnership in the fight against crime,” the press release reads, “Sheriff Danny H. Rogers today announced that Guilford County citizens are being invited to become Honorary Members of the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association.”
Membership applications go out in the mail this month and those who choose to join the program can do so for $25. Local businesses can join with a $50 contribution.
The press release doesn’t mention three perks that some citizens get for becoming a member: The Honorary Membership ID card, window decal for a car or business, and bumper sticker.
Do the bumper sticker and window decal help you get pulled less? Well, it probably doesn’t hurt. Is an officer kinder to you when you say, “My license? Sure, let me just look through my wallet. Here you go…Oh no, wait, that’s not my license, that’s my Sheriff’s Association Honorary Member ID. My mistake.”
Who knows?
According to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department, the money will help provide “critically important technical resources, legislative support on key criminal justice issues, support for the NCSA Undergraduate Criminal Justice Scholarship Program at the University of North Carolina System, and additional training for sheriffs and their deputies.”
The NCSA is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit tax-exempt organization, so contributions are tax-deductible.
Rogers stated this week that securing funding for the Sheriff’s Association is becoming increasingly important because the Association’s Honorary Membership Program has taken on greater importance than ever before.
Rogers also said the funding is vital to helping his department carry out its mission of “making our county a safer place to live, work and play.”
“As the need for building stronger public-private law enforcement partnerships in this county continues to escalate, programs such as this continue to grow in importance,” Rogers stated. “I encourage everyone receiving a membership application to consider joining forces with us by becoming an Honorary Member. It is a valuable investment in our future.”
Anyone who doesn’t receive a membership application or who wants more information can visit the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association website at www.ncsheriffs.org.
Alternatively, they can write a snail mail letter to the NC Sheriffs’ Association at:
Post Office Box 20049
Raleigh, North Carolina 27619-0049
The phone number is (919) SHERIFF (743-7433).
People wishing to become Honorary Members of the Association can also sign up for the program by contacting the Guilford County Sheriff’s Department.
The Honorary Membership Program was created “to provide citizens with an opportunity to lend their support to more effective law enforcement and to better help local sheriffs protect the lives and property of citizens.”
The NC Sheriffs’ Association was founded in 1922 as a not-for-profit professional and educational organization for the preservation of peace and the protection of lives and property of the citizens of North Carolina.
Not content with purchasing armored vehicles and machine guns to ‘keep the peace’ among the taxpaying citizens, the NC Sheriffs want your money to help turn the community into a snitching, informant society, much like the Stazi did in East Germany during the cold war. If you want to see the number and types of companies that profit from the “school to prison pipeline”, profit from the poor at their most vulnerable moments and lobby to make victimless, non-violent crimes felonies, take a look here. https://ncsheriffs.org/corporate-partners.
I’ll pass on making my community an open-air, for-profit prison.
Hey Tuna, haven’t you heard? The current admin. DOJ has declared that parents dissention over School Board mandates is the latest existential threat to National Security.
You sound like a very liberal democrat moron.
Great reply! I find the idea of asking the taxpaying citizens to fund the N.C. Sheriff’s Association disturbing to say the l least on several levels. FYI: I am not at all against the Sheriff’s Dept. or any other law enforcement agency and I do not think anyone should defund the police. What happens when families, businesses large or small, churches, etc. start feeling that some one and/or some organization that has power over their lives and safety is putting just a bit of a squeeze on them for a donation? That is probably not be the intent of this current action but that is what it will become. It is, in my humble opinion, a very distasteful and very bad idea in which the rotten outcome is apparent.
This is just my opinion. It is absolutely not intended as an insult against anyone past or present in the Sheriff’s Dept. I’m thinking that most of them would also see this as an inherently flawed idea. Who should know much more about the less lovely side of human nature than those whose profession is law enforcement?
I think citizens need to oppose this on ethical grounds.
I can’t make the connection between the Stazi and the NC Sheriffs.
I was an annual giver for many years. That stopped when Rogers became sheriff. I don’t believe his background sets any good example as he proclaims plus many of his liberal beliefs don’t mesh with what I consider acceptable. Once he hopefully is replaced, I will once again support the sheriff department with my annual contribution.
After I waited two months for a handgun purchase permit…. no
Yeah, Tuna,they are raising money to get some flame throwers and tactical nukes.The Stazi? really? sounds fishy.
They need the new weapons and a car alarm for the sheriffs car
That was funny. Well said. Made me smile with my morning coffee. LOL
The NC Sheriff’s Association supports repeal of the racist Jim Crow era Pistol Purchase Permit regimen that Sheriff Baker whoeheartly supports retaining, perhaps so he can continue to deny and delay the lawful citizens of Guilford County his ” blessing” to purchase a handgun for self defense.
Go figure.
Sheriff Danny should have plenty of money since he no longer has a big gasoline expenditure. Haven’t seen many patrol vehicles actually patrolling since BJ left.
That’s because they wrecked them all.
Heck No!!! the president of that association, Eddie Caldwell is paid a bit over $300,000 annually. I was a member for over 15 years and didn’t see that they did a whole lot for the citizens of our State. My gosh, we still have that “Jim Crow” pistol permit requirement that implemented to keep black folk from getting handguns. Only a minority of states have such a nonsense regulation. This year our legislature attempted to do away with that law and Governor “Jim Crow Cooper” vetoed it! So that racist law is still on the books thanks to a racist Governor. Take a pay cut Eddie.
The best way for the Sheriff’s Dept to get help is for Danny Rogers to resign.