Credit Due: Ravalli Sheriff Hoffman is a POS.

Notice of Achievement: Sheriff Chris Hoffman, Ravalli County, MT

New York Times Photo

This letter is to give credit to the Ravalli County Sheriff Department (RCSO) from its most unlikely source.  As the webmaster and author of the Law Enforcement Watch of the Bitterroot Rising Website, I want to personally thank Sheriff Chris Hoffman for training the deputies in comprehensive areas of safety, law, and protocol.  The public will see more professionalism from the RCSO.

A law enforcement agency that strives to give better service to those they serve should always be commended.  My hope is that the public’s rights are foremost in the RCSO minds before any activity commences.  By understanding what a reasonable officer’s knowledge of a person’s established constitutional rights guarantees the officer’s protection, as well as Ravalli County for proper, and lawful conduct.  

The public should congratulate Sheriff Chris Hoffman: for raising the standard of service at the RCSO with the recent in-house training of law enforcement officers of Ravalli County Montana.
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A break in this blogpost---Chris Hoffman Sheriff is claiming now to have the trust of the people, and is upholding a constitution.  This is a bunch of malarkey.  A recent post is re-posted here.
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Unethical public officials dont deserve ANY credit.

Look at your Sheriff closely.

Sheriff Chris Hoffman's word

see Chris Hoffman's word, the original article:

http://www.bitterrootvalleynews.com/2011/10/sheriff-chris-hoffmans-word.html

Sheriff Chris Hoffman is pretty touchy when it comes to HIS sheriff department in Ravalli County Montana. A budget crunch drew out what appeared to be an ornery, accusatory public official. This post is to look solely at some of Chris Hoffman's comments over the years, and this news source will allow the public to decide what Sheriff Chris Hoffman's word means if anything at all.

Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman

On February 13, 2005 a reporter from the New York Times asked Chris Hoffman about the numerous suicides in Ravalli County, which rank his county as #2 in the Nation. Chris Hoffman said that the number surprised him, although Sheriff Hoffman serves as coroner, and signs all death certificates with the cause of death listed. To verrify this statement in print see:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/health/13rural.html

Many residents of Ravalli County, including Sheriff Candidate Vanek that deputies put questionable deaths or some straight forward ones in the suicide category due to ease of investigation.

Four men took their own lives while under the custody of Sheriff Chris Hoffman in 2005.

Ryan Heath

Scott Lewis

Mark Wilson

Brad Palin

Ravall County Sheriff Chris Hoffman told the New York Times (link above) that he was not sure he would run for Ravalli County Sheriff in 2005. As Ravalli County residents are aware, Chris Hoffman ran for Sheriff in 2006 and in 2010 after making that statement. The four Ravalli County residents who died reportedly at their own hand were in the custody of Sheriff Chris Hoffman.

The interesting part is Sheriff Chris Hoffman making official comment to Ravalli County Commissioners that his department " who long ago earned the public trust" and something about upholding their sworn oaths to the US and MT Constitutions. Amendment 5 of the US Constitution includes the right to life, something Sheriff Chris Hoffman does not seem to understand the significance.

Bitterroot Star

Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman told the Montana Public Radio that "...he does not know why he would say that..." referring to Sergeant Fowler telling Judge Haynes (above) that he did not steal the ammunition in the Ravalli County lockup (I call it grand theft ammo). Fowler was set up to fall for the criminal fast fingers within the Ravalli County Sheriff department, and his "trial" was purposely delayed past the 2010 election to not politically upset incumbent Sheriff Chris Hoffman.

read more: http://wethepeoplemt.blogspot.com/2010/12/crime-in-ravalli-county-montana-nation.html

Sheriff Chris Hoffman feels his department has earned the trust of the public in Ravalli County. Does that include failure to protect a woman too afraid to sleep in her house due to neighbor threats? Does that include ignoring State law, and a State Officer urging Sheriff Hoffman to cite a fire code offender? That oath is State AND Federal Mr. Hoffman.

Trust in the Ravalli County Sheriff Department means allowing deputies to get in drunken brawls in at UM Grizzly football games in Missoula, allowing porn to be viewed on county computers, computer games by prison guards instead of rounds, allowing law enforcement such as now Chief Ryan Oster into the cell block to encourage the suicides of the four men trusted to Sheriff Hoffmans' care. Ryan Oster was trained by Sheriff Hoffman. Lets look at Chief Oster's adherence to Constitutional Rights in Hamilton, the county seat of Ravalli County:

Unlawful Entry via Chief Oster

October 4, 2011

trespassing by law enforcement

called in by unethical Probation officers without "reasonable suspicion" to enter house.

Trust in the public includes tampering with evidence, a felony in Montana to convict innocent people in Ravalli County Montana. Trust in the public means tampering with the recorded conversation to implicate an innocent person Mr. Hoffman? Trust from the public when Sheriff Hoffman himself said "watch your step in Ravalli County" while two members of the public attempted to assist and ask how to help his Department. Threats dont improve public trust Mr. Hoffman.

New York TImes

The Ravalli County Sheriff department did not catch the two juveniles who hit a staff member and escaped. It was a retired law enforcement who called in, and participated in the apprehension. The Ravalli County Sheriff Department never caught the triple murder in Florence, MT from 2001. Many say that evidence contamination and crime scene contamination were partially to blame, amongst other things. Sheriff Chris Hoffman is very protective, to a fault of his Sheriff Department in Ravalli County. The double standard to the public is what is most problematic about Sheriff Hoffman.

While nobody is perfect, I hold a Commissioners comment of "unprofessional" as true for Sheriff Chris Hoffman. An associate's wife was arrested within days with an outdated warrant, and the specifications on the warrant had already been met. Chris Hoffman had told us that "(he) would check our files" meaning if you intruded into the Ravalli County Sheriff office or offered to help, you would be investigated, and unlawfully arrested--to prove a point: it is a select group of protected people in Ravalli County Montana.

Sheriff Hoffman's  Undersheriff, McConnell was found to be abusing his wife, then rehired as a deputy. Sheriff Chris Hoffman's choice for Undersheriff was an alleged wife abuser, Deputies within the department stole ammunition, and pointed the finger at Fowler.

The bottom line is that Sheriff Chris Hoffman can think he has the trust, and is upholding the oath of office all he wants. There are two sworn affidavits in the Ravalli County Clerk and Recorder Office that say differently. It is one thing to tout your "long ago earned trust" in Ravalli County, it is another thing to actually have a resume and actions to back up those words.

Ravalli County Sheriff treat the public as if we are idiots. We know the truth about Sheriff Chris Hoffman. We have seen and experienced the truth about Sheriff Chris Hoffman in Ravalli County Montana. His words mean nothing, unless you are on the other end of a telephone as he is cussing you under his breath and calling you the biggest scum and everything else imaginable. I was issued a national security clearance up until Mr Hoffmans deputies decided to tamper with evidence, and Mr. Corn decided to let a law student prosecute without supervision in violation of a court order. When Ravalli County allows lawlessness, Americans suffer.

I will believe Mr. Hoffman when there is rule of law in Ravalli County Montana. I will believe Mr. Hoffman when he stops being so protective of OUR sheriff department in Ravalli County. I will start believing Mr. Hoffman when he halts the crime WITHIN the Ravalli County Sheriff Department.

I will start believing Mr. Hoffman's word when his deputies uphold my rights and allow basic protections like free speech, peaceful assembly, and equal protection in Ravalli County Montana.

I will believe Mr. Hoffman when he follows his own word: sending 1 maybe 2 Deputies for a civil service (Certified Letter authored by Sheriff Hoffman dated February 1, 2011). Four were sent to my house, and $200 damage was done to my entry door on November 4-6, 2009 as no one was home. That is definitely how Mr Hoffman has earned my trust: by giving false statements in a certified letter from the Ravalli County Sheriff Department.

There were two witnesses to Sheriff Hoffmans deputies on my property on November 4, 2009 one Deputy was the one who watched porn, and tampered with evidence. Do the Ravalli County Commissioners need more information that Chris Hoffman's word means nothing? Does the public in Ravalli County want to listen to Sheriff Chris Hoffman calling a Ravalli County Commissioner a "bully"?

The real bully is Sheriff Chris Hoffman. Proven. [and dangerous to your freedom, liberty, rights]

Chris Hoffman's word means nothing. He said he was not sure he was going to run in 2005 and graced us in 2006 and 2010. Sheriff Hoffman fails to protect us, and is filling the newspapers in Ravalli County with hot air double speak. It takes a man like Sheriff Hoffman to cover for a criminal department like the Ravalli County Sheriff Department.

Sheriff Chris Hoffman's words are being lawfully judged in a place where they are not protected. Judgment should come soon on how well he upholds the Constitution. I already know.

He has definitely earned my trust, and Brad Palin, and Ryan Heath, and Scott Lewis, and Mark Wilson. And everyone else in Ravalli County.

Keep talking Hoffman.

Source of Post: http://www.bitterrootvalleynews.com/2011/10/sheriff-chris-hoffmans-word.html

TOP TEN REASONS TO TRUST SHERIFF HOFFMANS WORD:
10. Hoffman is never available: A Sheriff is not voicemail activated.

9. Hoffman is not independent of County Attorney, Judges:
this does not protect your rights, or let the Sheriff work for you or your family.

8. The four (4) Detention Center suicides in 2005 were on Hoffman’s watch.

7. Hike at your own risk:
Hoffman’s recovery of lost hikers is dismal. Search & rescue are not to blame.

6. Boaters needlessly die every year in high water accidents on the Bitterroot River: Hoffman does not protect us.

5. Hoffman’s Deputies aren’t trained well enough to know the difference between misdemeanor and felony warrant execution; or when or how to use force.

4. Felony theft of 40,000 rounds of ammunition by Hoffman’s Sgt, and Felony partner assault by Hoffman’s former Undersheriff who was rehired as a Deputy. All under the watchful eye, and demonstrated leadership of Sheriff Chris Hoffman of Ravalli Co.

3. Deliberate indifference of 2000 Florence murders under Hoffman’s direction from 2002 to 2010; even with national spotlight of America’s Most Wanted.

2. Sheriff Chris Hoffman is lead Defendant for millions in civil liability to Ravalli County by incompetent leadership, and at times intentionally violating protected civil rights. We all pay for Chris Hoffman’s mistakes and his violations to the oath of office.

1. Hoffman’s deputies voted no confidence in his abilities before the 2006 election, in 2007, 75 voters signed a recall of Hoffman in Ravalli County. It’s time for a new Sheriff, Bitterroot Valley. We are not safe with Hoffman in office.

source of post: http://www.montanasheriff.com/2010/04/hamilton-montana-news-top-10-reasons.html

Credit due: accountability to the public.  Thats why we think Chris Hoffman is so POSITIVE (POS.)