His presence in Sonoma County began fading when the auto dealership closed in 1925 and was all but forgotten by the time he moved to Los Angeles and became an oil broker. The Bernard tape Pieces of the hanging ropes and chunks of the tree were passed down as family heirlooms. The town centre is only 1 km away, the capital in 6 km and to the airport only 12 km. The company will make a specialty of lathe work of every description, and will be equipped to make any part of an automobile or tractor. The significance of the business goes beyond the use of the premises (which by itself shows a high level of involvement with the scheme); several who worked there had ties to the martyred Sheriff Petray or other law enforcement officers in the county. Casassa died in 1923 before his case went to trial, but at the time of his arrest the Press Democrat commented. And so the blitzkrieg attack began, wrapping up under ten minutes later with the gangsters tied and gagged and being chauffeured to their doom. So Coroner Phillips worries that Boyd and Fitts might fall into the hands of some medical college were probably unfounded, but we can say that only by viewing history with our perfect 20/20 hindsight. (And for that matter, were they secretly armed?) Ralph Cromwell, special writer for the Chronicle, who had covered the shooting of the peace officers Sunday, also covered the lynching story for the big daily. My grandparents come across the plains, and thats the way it was. The Radical Senate: James Abourezk of South Dakota, America is Not a Racist Country: How Nikki Haley Became Israels Candidate for the White House, Three Reasons (Other Than Age) Why Joe Biden Should Not Run Again For President, The Global South Refuses Pressure to Side With the West on Russia, The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney. Further strength is given to the theory that members of the mob were from San Francisco by the report from Coroner Frank H. Phillips, who reported that he met from 15 to 20 automobiles headed south on the highway while he was driving from Petaluma to Santa Rosa to take charge of the bodies of the three men lynched. Phillips said nothing further about the graves and was never confronted about why he kept it secret. var _ctct_m = "d3e1dd689859431da495eb1970ed5ac7"; Pensacola State College is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate and associate degrees and certificates. ), Meanwhile, souvenir hunters continued to assail the hanging tree at the Rural Cemetery collecting and treasuring mementos of the murders. And much of that official history is sourced from LeBarons writings, echoing her attitude that in retrospect, a series of county lynchings were culturally understandable acts of justice. in the Airport Business Center north of Santa Rosa, but instead will add . Given their presumption that criminals all had some sort of physical impairment that could be visually seen or measured, the brains (and skulls! First Airplane to Visit This City, Piloted by Local Man. The website fails to mention that Gelhaus fired eight shots into the child, Lopez, nor does it breathe a word about any of the many homicides committed by deputies empowered by the prerogatives of whiteness to terrorize and kill members of disempowered groups. Soon after the news was telephoned to San Francisco, of the lynching in Santa Rosa, machines carrying San Francisco newspaper men, were soon on their way to the scene. Readers of this entire series will recall the Santa Rosa episode began when Fitts Sr. died, leaving the large family home on College Ave. unoccupied and conveniently just at a time when Terry and his criminal companions wanted a hideout from San Francisco police. He and mortician Welti and likely the sheriff and other members of law enforcement had vowed to keep the locations a secret from the public. Friendly, clean, quiet, good pool and gym, comfortable bed. The Community Remembrance Project Coalition is a partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative of Montgomery, Alabama. Santa Rosa hums with activity, centered downtown, where fabulous shopping, restaurants, and a craft brewery are all found. Since 2020, the names of the dead are Ricky Estrada, Douglas Thoreson, Salvador Jimenez, Michael Webber, Sean Bell, Donald Miller, Amber Marcotte, Gabriel Wibier, Jordan Pas and Benjamin Vega. Santa Rosa's stretch of Route 66 is forever memorialized in American film history in Steinbeck's epic novel, Grapes of Wrath with a memorable train scene, as a freight train steams over the Pecos River railroad bridge in the center of town. For the rest of Ernest Finleys life, not a word about it would reappear in his newspaper. She has, however, written scores of newspaper columns and a book featuring tales about community-supported lynchings, typified as pioneers handing out rough frontier justice.. The rumors arose over the secrecy surrounding the recording of the 1989 interview, which was kept in the safe of the Local History room at the Sonoma County Library until his death, per a promise of anonymity. Kathleen's focus is minimal intervention winemaking, sustainable farming, and eco-friendly practices (including a . Charles Schulz was a man destined to create comic strips and animated cartoons and the Charles Schulz Museum uncovers. Maynard almost seemed like a politician with his high level of civic involvement and also acted (and seemed to be expected to act) like a law enforcement officer. Well count noses [and see] if anyones missing. If detained, he told them just dont say a lot, answer simple questions, but dont mention any one of the rest of us and well come back and get you (1989 interview). In fact, report says, they are being acclaimed as public heroes. Sunday, January 5, 1986 5, 1988 t m Gaye LeBaron People it .',fVi Vr. Shortly after the boys left Sonoma Wednesday afternoon, Deputy Sheriff Joe Ryan received word to be on the lookout for them, and he requested Maynard Young to pick them up if he saw them along the road. Also incorporated were later comments by Clarence H. Barney Barnard, the only member of the vigilantes to talk about it. THE VELVET HAMMER Reviews on Cemetery in Santa Rosa, CA - Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, Santa Rosa Memorial Park, Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Chapel Of The Chimes Cem/Crema, Daniels Chapel of the Roses Funeral Home and Crematory, Windsor Healdsburg Mortuary & Crematory, Valley Memorial Park, Pleasant Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary, Shiloh District Cemetery, Sebastopol Memorial Lawn Cemetery Boyd admitted to the officers that he had a sister living in this city many years ago by the name of Riley and that he had visited her several times. The early meetings, including the March 26 and April 24 meetings, are designed as Community Conversations about Race and Ethnicity. At the Feb. 25 meeting, members split into various groups to discuss their own backgrounds and experiences with racial issues. Patuloy naman ang operasyon ng sumusunod na opisina sa Enero 18: Young recognised them when they hailed him and brought them to the county jail without warning of his intention. He knew Sheriffs Petray and Smith personally. Santa Rosa cannot afford to be known as a hang-out for criminals and moral degenerates. TWO BOY BURGLARS AGAIN JAILED; MUCH LOOT FOUND LeBaron explained, If there was a chance the district attorney would have come after Barney, I would not have written the story. But she still would have known about the murders. This was the last lynching to take place in Sonoma County. Value. Theres even a small discreet grave marker its been hiding in plain sight for a century. Unfortunately, he was not so skilled at takeoffs; the ballpark where he landed was too short for the ungainly aircraft and he made the rookie mistake of trying to fly underneath telegraph lines. They wanted Santa Rosa known (per the future 1946 slogan) as The City Designed for Living, not The City Bent on Hanging Scallywags.. On the other hand, theres a journalism ethics question. Pilgrim African Baptist Church; NAACP of Santa Rosa County; Overcoming Obstacles Outreach Ministry; Santa Rosa Democratic Black Caucus; Santa Rosa Historical Society and St. Marys Episcopal Church. Since her beatification, a feast day in her honor was added in 1729 to the Roman Catholic Church but . Maynard Young, who returned from a visit to his Colusa County ranch on Friday night, was here on business Saturday. (She supposedly slept through all the yelling and other commotion at the jail while they were being hauled away by the vigilantes.). And that was before she made a tape recording of the confession. 2022. Grim Hangmans Tree, Reminder Of Lynching In 1920, Is Laid Low By Ax. Like Maynard Young, Lattin was law enforcement-adjacent in those years. Association Secretary Frank Welti resigned on the spot.2. STANDARD MACHINE WORKS TO OPEN IN HEALDSBURG. There have been various rumors relative to the final disposal of the bodies of the gangsters. Practically the entire day was spent in this manner and Hoyle said it was the first step he would make in carrying out his official duties in connection with the case. By iseko. Patteson is well known through out the county. Before he left Petaluma, Coroner Phillips phoned Frank Welti, the Deputy Coroner for Santa Rosa and ordered an ambulance to be waiting at the cemetery to transport the bodies. King could bark out numbers written on a blackboard and supposedly add/subtract up to five. Santa Rosa Republican as reprinted in the Sacramento Bee, December 10, 1920. Woods, better known as Jack Woods, will be ready for business next Monday. gang came to Santa Rosa; Image / Santa Rosa, 1920: S.F. LeBaron did not print the identity of the confessed killer, who, because there is no statute of limitations on murder, was liable to be arrested for the triple homicide. The next day (Saturday, Dec. 11) there was a quiet funeral service at Weltis for Terrance Fitts, with only a few attending. That three such men should have been laid low by a worthless human rat is worse than shocking; it is horrible, appalling. Phillips spent nearly an hour at the jail with the sheriff (probably joined by Welti) prior to heading for the cemetery. If Santa Rosa policemen had arrived while the vigilantes were inside the jail seizing the gangsters, would they have surrendered or started a shootout? The body of Terence Fitts, black sheep, lynched at Santa Rosa, was saved from the eyes of morbid crowds by the petition of his sister, Mrs. Henry Pyburn, 537 Fifth avenue, San Francisco. Asked if he planned to impanel a grand jury, he replied: I cant call a session until I have evidence to put before them., After the inquest, charges were also dropped against poor Dorothy Quinlan, although she was never accused of anything more serious than having bad taste in men. More than 11,000 copies of The Press Democrat were printed and sold during the day, and the paper was in circulation in all parts of Sonoma county long before daylight. Racing through the narrative of MULTIPLE crimes meant serious questions would not be asked or just given perfunctory attention; inconsistencies with testimony before the Grand Jury were left unclarified. Then there was the plan by Santa Rosa authorities to conceal what happened to the bodies out of concern for grave robbers. But because this is where we live now, my boyfriend It occurred in the spring of 1854 when a mule rustler by the name of Ritchie was accused of absconding with a band of mules. After a day and night in which the lynching tree in Rural cemetery was unguarded, and curiosity seekers removed most of the bark and many of the smaller limbs, the caretaker of the cemetery stationed a guard over it, and has stopped further abuse of the tree at the hands of souvenir seekers. It was a lie. It was even planned where each car was to park. Around midnight on the night of June 20, 1867, Byrd Brumfield used his pocket knife to slash John Strong to death at Griffin's Saloon. B. B. There were over a hundred of these little poems in the Press Democrat, each three stanzas of charmingly awful doggerel, to wit: If you accept the echoed word of Mr. Maynard Young; youre sure to bite, the car is right, you simply cant be stung.). But it still seems unusual for a tiny company such as Standard Machine Works to have so many ties specifically to the sheriffs office going beyond friend-of-a-friend links; there were multiple personal and professional relationships with not only Petray but Sheriffs Jack Smith (before Petray) and Boyes (after Petray). Since then it has been visited by thousands of tourists who had heard of the revenge meted out to the three men, said to have been connected with the outrages ol the Howard street gang in San Francisco. A crowd was assembled in front of The Press Democrat office all day long, reading the bulletins and extras posted on the plate glass windows and examining the mementos of the occasion that had been placed on display, while two people were kept busy at the telephone almost the entire day answering inquiries and giving out information relative to the sensational event with which the day had been ushered in. Yes and no. On Dec. 8, LeBaron followed-up with a scoop. The lawlessness of the thing is what appalls me, was District Attorney George W. Hoyles statement early this morning when informed of the lynching. Now lets crack this nut and see whats inside. On all sides were heard the remarks, They got what was coming to them, and Good riddance and a saving of money for their trial. All seemed to join in unanimous approval of the ghastly procedure. And that is generally believed to be a social good as it protects the identity of whistleblowers and confidential sources and witnesses to crimes and misbehaviors by governments and corporations. Its still our history. Two elderly men who have lived in Santa Rosa for years both are said to have exclaimed on looking at Boyd, That is the Riley boy. (The impact of the Press Democrats coverage is exaggerated today because only the first edition of the Dec. 10 Republican survives, while all editions of the Press Democrat are available. The identity of the Captain and (most) of the vigilantes will never be known for certain. He has been detailed as an Instructor at the San Diego aviation field. And we still need to face that horrible history, no matter how horrible and traumatic it is. It is said that the man cleared up $500 in the transaction. Located right in the center of the Sonoma County wine region, Santa Rosa is home to several vineyards with world-class wines, rich histories and beautiful surroundings. A mob formed and put a noose around his neck and hung him from a tree. Thompson was soon captured by a posse of men and the Santa Rosa County Sheriff and taken back to jail in Milton, later being transferred to Pensacola amid concerns a lynch mob was forming. Maynard Young, who a short time since disposed of his ranch interests in Alexander valley and moved into Heaidsburg to reside is now the agent in this section of the state for the Stephens Salient Six car, one of the classiest of automobiles and a good seller. He has a large family, including grandchildren, and it is said his conduct in connection with the San Francisco gangsters has not met with the approval of his family, who it is declared have strenuously protested but to no avail, nearly breached the fortress-like county jail, archive of the American Eugenics Movement, plotted to ambush the San Francisco detectives, ROAD TO THE MALL: THE BIG BOOK OF RED FLAGS. HANGMANS TREE REMOVAL PRAISED BY CLUBWOMEN AND OPPOSED BY CEMETERY BOARD. It now becomes my duty as district attorney to conduct an investigation to determine, if possible, who are responsible for this lawless act.. T' Timomy Bakw TTIew locust tree grown from the stump of the 1920 'Hanging Tree' in Rural Cemetery arking up the wrong tree . Boyd recently, and providing the liquor for the men on their various visits, it is declared by the arresting officers. I helped pull on one of the ropes and it was quite a job to get him off the ground. The sisters wanted Terry interred there as well; no way, said the cemetery. Both Santa Rosa newspapers published four extras on Dec. 10 with the PD claiming 11,000 papers were sold and the Republican saying their total was exactly 23,416. This is a list of lynching victims in the United States. At the same time as The Press Democrat was assembling the data of the lynching, messages were flashed to the outside world. LeBaron: Were you the only one in your family? At the cemetery the nooses were already knotted and securely anchored around the locust tree. But no matter; the jury stuck to its simple mission of determining the causes of death for the officers and the lynched men. On Friday, a troop of armed, masked men stormed the jailhouse, liberated cell keys from deputies and hogtied the three prisoners, stuffing their mouths with rags, and looping nooses over their heads. Cleanliness. He was elected County Coroner from 1926 to 1940 when he retired because of ill health. There was almost a romantic air about this tree, because the retribution was carried out by an orderly mobretributive justice, carried out more quickly than the ponderous law could have acted., But winds of opinion were shifting. HARRY PATTESON was a younger brother of Don. But the Press Democrat was told there were no interments in any of the local cemeteries, including potters field, and no coffins were shipped from Santa Rosa by train. They made a terrible racket, shattering the early morning peace by honking horns and cranking sirens as the caravan entered Healdsburg and rounded the Plaza. Want a ride to Santa Rosa? During the 1850s, at least one squatter was lynched at Bodega Ranch. In the petition another sister, Mrs. Cecil Riley of Santa Rosa, joined, and Fitts face was covered while a crowd of 3000, including women with babies in arms, viewed his body and those of George Boyd and Charles Valento. 6. Also, it would have been impossible to conceal newly-dug graves. When the news spread that the tree had been cut down crowds of people again visited the old cemetery and carried away fragments as souvenirs. REPUBLICANS WITH LYNCH STORY HAVE BIG SALE IN S. F. The first word of the summary action taken by the men who hanged Fitts, Boyd and Valento yesterday was sent out by the Santa Rosa Republican which tipped off the majority of the San Francisco papers and which kept them supplied with the news of developments. But if you stay, from now on, were all one. Barney repeated much the same thing in his 1989 interview, except changing the speech to end with, after tonight, weve got an active war.. SUBMIT ILLICIT DISCHARGE REPORT . Gee Its Nice Your State is Blue, the War on Abortions Still Coming for You. Theres more discussion of this (and how our county became a leader in espousing such bullshit) in SONOMA COUNTY AND EUGENICS.2. Should Gentle Reader think our 20th century ancestors were above such barbarity, consider that when Bonnie and Clyde were killed in 1934 people rushed in to do exactly that, even trying to cut off Clydes trigger finger and, for some reason, his ear.1. FEDERAL AGENTS SAY WINEMAKER IS ILLICIT DEALER, D. Cassassa, widely known wineman who resides on the Guerneville road west of town, was arrested Saturday night on a charge of selling liquor illegally. People become so desensitized and we have to remind them of the struggle if were to move forward, and thats for people of all colors and races., The focus of these early meetings is to get people talking about race and ethnicity, Mosley said. San Francisco.Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson last Saturday mailed a letter to G. W. Hoyle, District Attorney of Sonoma county, under the direction of chief of Police O'Brien, in which he sets forth that an investigation has been made and that he has established that no members of . In 1915 Ned gave then-Deputy Sheriff James A. Petray a political boost by having him produce a series of Christmas benefits. We were a small rural county; Santa Rosas population was 8,758, almost exactly the size of Cloverdale today (2021). She was prevented by illness from attending the session according to a report received by the other directors. Patteson is universally known in this section, and his selection will meet with popular approval. Planning for the clinic has taken several years and construction of the $12 million clinic began in 2020. Additional photos and information can be found online. The paper added there were rumors around town claiming both bodies were unburied but hidden. I am just beginning my investigations today and until I have taken several statements I cant tell whether or not the grand jury will be called., Apparently the mystery which involved the identify of the avenging throng was still buried from officials and as no trace or inkling of the men who participated in the hanging has leaked out doubt exists in the many minds if an official investigation will yield results, No Grand Jury Probe Expected At Santa Rosa, There is little likelihood of a Grand Jury investigation into yesterdays triple lynching, District Attorney George W. Hoyle said today as he began his formal inquiry into the mob action. He lived here 20 years ago.. The group held its first meeting in January. THE BEE GETS PHOTO BY AIRPLANE San Luis Obispo (/ s n l u s b s p o /; Spanish: [san lwis oispo]; Spanish for 'St. Louis the Bishop'; Chumash: tihini) is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California.Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly halfway between the San Francisco Bay Area in the north and Greater Los Angeles in the south. A San Francisco history magazine observed, The entire episode became a curious source of civic pride.. An NAACP deposition of the lynching said Johnson had recently returned from military service in Germany. Sacramento Paper Sends Airplane to Get Lynch Picture. Fred Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Young of Healdsburg, has received a commission as a lieutenant in the aviation branch of the service at San Diego. That would be a large field to plow even at a capital murder trial, but the coroner crammed it all into a single session and called just five witnesses. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 21. Evans was 30 years old and from Port St. Joe when he was charged with robbing a filling station, highway robbery and assaulting a 12-year-old white boy. Then his eyes caught another ring, and another, and another; then a dainty little pendant, set in opals and pearls rolled out onto the floor, apparently from nowhere. He resigned from the Army and moved back at the end of Feb. 1920, about nine months before the lynching took place. Other partners in the local coalition are the LEAP Committee of the Milton City Council; Milton First United Methodist Church Youth Group; Mt. Then a veritable shower of jewelry occurred. Inquiry at all the local cemeteries brought the response that neither of the gangsters had been interred there, so the assumption is that burial was held in another city, possibly San Francisco. A NUMBER OF CITIZENS MAKE AFFIDAVIT THE VICTIM OF THE VIGILANTES WAS A DESPERADOTHE MURDER OF ROWLAND SHOWN TO HATE BEEN A COLD-BLOODED ACT. Parkway Petaluma, CA 94954-2522 (707) 778-2415. The white tablecloth service, handsome wooden bar, and rose-heavy gardens add enchantment to the expected array of pastas and meat dishes sourced from all corners of Italy. Takeaways were that the militarily disciplined lynch mob was organized by a Healdsburg businessman called the Captain, who was later elected county coroner. Maynard Young of Healdsburg was here yesterday and madr arrangements with the directors of the Sonoma County Fair for exhibit space for Healdsburg and Dry Creek valley districts. How revealing, though, this was a top concern of his at the time. To report suspected pollution discharge, complete the online form. The Petaluma Courier reported the hour and the place of [Fitts] burial was kept private. Welti announced both men had been buried but would not say where. On his way home Mr. Young stopped at the country home of former Sheriff and Mrs. J. K. Smith at Knights Landing and found them comfortably installed in a nice home. They are going to be stopped, he declares, once and for all time. It is situated on Santa Rosa Creek, at the foot of the Sonoma Mountains, 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of San Francisco. (The 1900 census shows a Mary Riley living at 856 Second St. with her son Victor, who was the same age as Boyd. Santa Rosa Homes for Sale $683,937; Petaluma Homes for Sale $869,631; Rohnert Park Homes for Sale $653,202; Sebastopol Homes for Sale $1,024,191; Windsor Homes for Sale $750,507; Healdsburg Homes for Sale $1,012,455; If no claim is made on the body it will be buried in potters field [now the Chanate Historic Cemetery -je].. Hoboes, yeggs, idlers and hangers-on about the city are to be arrested and given the stiffest sentence that the law will allow, said Chief Matthews Tuesday. Type image Format Photographs. Valentos body was shipped to his mother, who lives in Howard street. Inman Family Wines. Mr. Young is an active business man and before he entered into the auto game with the Stephens car his friends knew that he must have satisfied himself perfectly as to the merits of the machine before taking it up and recommending it to his friends. The traffic became so heavy, with machines passing alone the road from both directions, that it was necessary to call on the traffic police for regulation, with the result that an officer was stationed at each end of the road to maintain order. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Santa Rosa, CA declined from 179,701 to 178,391, a 0.729% decrease and its median household income grew from $75,630 to $80,472, a 6.4% increase. When told nowadays it is a simple tale that begins with how a good man was murdered and ends when the bad men were punished, as the Press Democrat put it at the time, swinging from the ropes ends, swaying in the wind and washed by the rain. Santa Rosa played no part in it whatsoever; why, we cant even be sure if anyone was here at all that week. Sheriff James Petray, Sergeant Jackson of the San Francisco Police Department and Officer Lester Dorman of the San Francisco Police Department were shot and killed as they attempted to arrest three suspects in their home. Within days of his demise, LeBaron outed him as the lyncher in thePress Democrat with his daughters permission, she says. With only himself and three deputies on hand, Sheriff Boyes asked McMinn and Lattin to go the cemetery and see if their leaders would speak with him. His eyes big as saucers, he was just froze., And now in the transcript of the tape comes this curious passage: Everything was so well organized, everything went smooth the first group to go in got the keys from the sheriff, the acting sheriff, Erick Gelhaus.. The 2010 census reported a population of 167,815. Orders to officers have already been issued to arrest every person in the city or vicinity of questionable occupation or who is found loitering around any of the saloons or wineries of the city or county. The Republican reported, it might be shipped to Seattle, where it is understood that Boyds mother lives, but word is awaited from that city before final disposition of the body by local authorities. Young took them into his car and proceeded to town. At 2:45 p. m. they were in the hands of the birdmen and on their way to Sacramento. The district attorney had not then heard of the occurrence and was so stunned at the news that he was unable to comment further at that moment. Inequality is Weakening Social Security. As Barnard told LeBaron, besides all of the vigilantes being from the area we were all friends of Jim Petrays. In the 1989 interview he added, some of them was his close relatives. During the Sunday night riot Petray brothers Edward and Frank were inside the jail and vowing to kill the gangsters on the spot, so surely they were among the avengers along with Ray Lattin, Barney and his dad. Is hiding a crime a crime? His wartime assignment was as a flight instructor in Southern California. Sexton Mets said the tree had been hewn down under an order issued by Mrs. Frank C. Newman, president of the board of directors of the Rural Cemetery association. Most significantly were two conspiracies of silence, both of which remain (mostly) secret still today. The PD printed an item on this pilots derring-do flight but editor Ernest Finley, ever the churl, did not mention this was for his rival newspaper. Santa Rosa is the largest city in California's Wine Country and fifth largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, after San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont and 26th largest city in California. The Call of the 26th publishes the following further testimony in this case. In addition, minority populations have increased. Its doubtful either man caught any further sleep that day; the Coroners Inquest was held later that morning and they still needed to suss out the dead gangsters next-of-kin. Fun story #1: Maynard was driving back from Petaluma with Sheriff Petray and a deputy in 1920 when they spotted two men arguing by the side of the road. Captain Matheson Makes Inquiry and Finds Members Were on Duty. He crashed into a barn and destroyed the government flying machine but was unhurt. Then two more rings were noticed on the floor along with a pearl and opal pendant. The committee found a highly polarized and charged atmosphere in respect to community-police relations., In 2018, the newly-formed Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO) reported that the Sheriffs work force was 78 % self-described white. 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