Duffy’s Departure
Congratulations! You’ve accomplished your end, which was to get rid of Sheriff John Duffy. Well, almost. Duffy still has more than a year to serve and one wonders just how effectively the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department will function without his hand on the tiller.
Yes, you won when a judge overruled Sheriff Duffy’s Fourth Amendment rights in preference to your “freedom of the press” rights, which more and more has come to mean that you can publish anything, true or false.
Yet, I have to smile at the irony of the quote from Mike Aguirre: “He will be remembered as the J. Edgar Hoover of San Diego law enforcement.” No higher compliment, although unintentioned, I’m sure, could be said of Sheriff Duffy than to be compared to the finest lawman in American history.
EDWIN O. LEARNARD
San Diego
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