King of the County: The Power of Sheriffs | CBS Reports
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- A murder plot discussed on tape implicating a sheriff in southeastern Oklahoma triggers a CBS News investigation, uncovering a pattern of abuses that have gone largely unchecked for years. It's a cautionary tale that reveals an unsettling reality for small towns across America: when sheriffs abuse their power, people can die and there's little to hold them accountable. Watch more CBS Reports documentaries that dive into the key issues driving the national and global conversation at cbsnews.com/cbs-reports
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This wasn't long enough, need a 2 hour special
Extremely well done wasn’t it?!?
CBS is running this story so Biden can nationalize local police departments.
I'd agree
I Mean Really!!!
Absolutely right.
I went to high school in Tulsa with a guy that's now a Deputy Sheriff. He was the biggest bully in school, always picking on people. He's huge, at least 6' 3" and 300lbs. His entire existence was predicated on hurting people. There's no way he should have a badge.
But your community lies about crime thus enabling the police. So stop crying.
Report to DoJ
@@ONE1BEAThey doj I just want to report that the current sheriff use to bully me when we were kids
@@ONE1BEAT
You're funny! LMAO!
@ONE1BEAT and tell them what exactly? He hasn't done anything to report, so good luck lol
Not many have the balls to report on this
We can always trust CBS News.....................
@@Goodkidjr43sponsored by phyzer?
CBS is government propaganda, Democrats want to get rid of local law enforcement. Sheriffs are elected, you want Biden in control of police?
@@Goodkidjr43 On this, YOU CAN. I still get calls from whistleblowers in the department who knew I would try to help. God Bless them because several were accused of talking to reporters, and were fired.
My husband was a deputy for the McCurtain County Sheriff’s Department in 2020/2021 and it didn’t take him long to realize how corrupt it was and when they tried pressuring him to do certain things, he quit. Best decision ever. This makes me sick. There’s too many bad and not enough of the good to boot them out.
Try Pushmataha County it's no better! Sheriff B.J. Hedgecock does NOTHING to stop the drug epidemic.
would he be willing to speak to someone about his experiences and what he observed there?
Report to DOJ
@@ONE1BEAT Exactly, this report anything criminal to the DOJ civil rights division if possible and safe to do!!!
now tell us how you feel about violent criminals and gang members who terrorize communities? or is it just the cops you hate?
And they wonder why people are angry at law enforcement
Qualified immunity protects them and endangers us.
Well qualified immunity only protects them from civil lawsuit. There is NO immunity protecting cops who commit crimes. We just have to have prosecutors with the stones to bring a case.
It also DEFIES equality under the law and our rights.
100% hicks
Can't trust tyrants with badges and guns
That is the truth.
Elected law enforcement officials belongs to another time, and age. Law enforcement requires PROFESSIONAL, EDUCATED law enforcement officers. And not the head of the high school football team voted in as "the man". Nobody elects a "Sheriff" anywhere in the Western World unless it is for a honorary position. Law enforcement requires DOJ, State, and Federal oversight. And "Internal Affairs".
@@HenryAndersen the doj is the United States justice department, didn't you notice they interviewed him as well and he ain't doing nothing about it either. If you're thinking the Federal system is less corrupt than County and State I think you're sorely mistaken. When America wakes up and realizes government is not going to save them from government the world will be a better place.
Then who can you trust? As long as law enforcement is recruited from the human race, you will have some problems. If you hire 100, 5-10 will end up corrupt or tyrannical. I'm gonna tag this with an excellent comment farther down. "Every elected position is filled by the quality of people available in that jurisdiction."
@HenryAndersen
All those safeguards you mentioned are like rainbows and unicorns. They only exist in a fantasy world.
When you get policed by guys who are more criminal then criminals.
I've met crooked cops, and outright criminals. There is no difference. They're all thugs on the street before they're cops.
Than.
I live in Texas and the small town corruption is completely out of control.
I think it's like that Everywhere in the US since trump. They are above the law.🇺🇸
Law enforcement says it’s “suspicious” when a pesky citizen gets an attorney and follows the instructions of the attorney…….SO……………🤔🤔
The media makes sovereign citizens into “terrorists” yet they are the people who understand their rights and the constitution
It’s crazy seeing this. I started my law enforcement career working at the McCurtain County Jail before getting on as a reserve deputy with them and eventually ending up at the Idabel Police Department. I worked with Clardy before he was Sheriff. I always liked him and never would have expected seeing this from him. I ended up moving out of Southeast Oklahoma and continuing my law enforcement career but I have to say, some of the craziest “good ole boy” stuff I ever witnessed were in that county. It’s most of the reason I decided to get out of that profession because there’s too much cover up. McCurtain County law enforcement are a different breed and not in a good way. I’m ashamed to admit I was affiliated with them.
At least you were smart enough to get out.
Now I live in Pushmataha county...... HUGE MISTAKE cause I'm not from Oklahoma.
Its time that police are held accountable for the actions they have. Stop making tax payers foot the bill
That's all we ask n yet I wonder how many more will have to fall until this is into play
Justifies people fearing the police IMO.
My brother Curt Peavy been missing from down there since 2017. Not a safe place.
As a child I was taught to respect law enforcement, and if I was ever in trouble to trust them, and now as a senior citizen, I don't trust law enforcement. I believe that ALL law enforcement agencies in the United States are corrupt. I no longer have ANY respect for ANY law enforcement agency or the officers in those agencies. The law enforcement agencies, and the officers in them, have only themselves to blame for the loss of respect from the citizens of the United States. This situation will continue to exist until we get rid of qualified immunity.
Your not wrong, I was raised the same. I could remember waving and having conversations with police. Now I'm afraid to even see them, cause I know something about to go down.😢 is sad really
This is much needed reporting, so grateful to see this effort.
Yes
imho it is a HUGE problem that the U.S. elect sheriffs, judges, coroners-without-medical-degrees.
A “huge problem”? I’d MUCH rather have them elected!
@@chaparra71 I respect your opinion, however, I have found that electing these law and government officials simply throws much more fuel on the fire because politics now adds the potential for even more problems.
Adam Yamaguchi comes up with some of CBS' best investigative reports.
It's really important for us all to remain vigilant of (or - at least - be knowledgeable of) the abuses of power that our governments permit.
Yes
Every elected position is filled by the quality of people available in that jurisdiction.
Also the disinterest by voters to show up. This county has a pretty low, 33,000 or so, permanent residents. Go back and see how many show up to vote. I'll be following campaign contributions for all of these "Public servants".
How is this acceptable to any U.S. citizen??????
Exactly...why aren't they doing something about this?
@@romanz3423They is we, why aren't we doing anything?
that's the best we can do.. if they weren't they wouldn't be elected and re elected...
@@Independent-Journalist-Union We, they, them...why isn't something being done about it?
@@phukrnd840 End qualified immunity!!!
These are what our ancestors warns us about.
I was born and raised there. All my family is there. They have their own laws. They go by the "good ole boy" laws. They do what they want. Ask about Aaron victory, Alyssa Walker and many more.
JUSTICE FOR ALYSSA!
Look at how nervous they get at 16:22 watch the body language sicking
The people of this county need to take this matter into their own hands because the judicial/executive/legislative system isn't take it into their hands.
This is all of the USA. You just might not realize it
The Oklahoma Sheriff's Association cut ties with Sheriff CLARDY almost immediately. Just for context.
The Oklahoma sheriff's association is no better than the fraternal order of police, both should be disbanded!
@@neallawson7112 Didn't say they were.
Baxter County AR chained and beaten my dad in the late 90's. Benny Magnus ran the area for decades, and pretty much still does.
"A new lawsuit describes a violent gang in LA County. Its members are deputy sheriffs." ~Vox, Oct. 11, 2019.
This deserves an award.
Yes
This explains a lot.
I tried to get the sheriff's office of my hometown to look at the death of my attorney on a Friday after he said he had information about someone and would give it to me on Monday.
They told me they have no records because they had a flood in the basement and those were destroyed.
A flood wouldn't do it !
Small town corruption is some of the most dangerous kind because they make an example out of people to shut the rest of the town up or everyone just collectively decides to not address whatever horrible things they do
Sheriffs have been known to "gaslight" a situation.
Kern County sheriffs, California.
I was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and lived there many years before I moved to San Diego, and @ME-rr8ym you are very correct. As a kid, I definitely saw ILLEGAL stuff covered up by law enforcement.
Quite a few times.
I lived in Taft and was constantly harassed and locked up because I was with a judge's daughter.
The judges and the courts either are in on this activity with the Sheriff or willfully ignorant of what is going on. The Sheriff officers are in the courts full time on a daily basis.
Judges are corrupt.
incredible reporting
It’s crazy when you’re from this county 😮💨🤣
Great reporting. Keep up the good work and maybe we'll see some change.
Good grief, this is truly frightening.
And this is in the US.
it's by design; systematic
My PopPop was a U.S. Marshal I love him very much may he rip. As a result I had enormous respect for law enforcement most of my life. If he were alive today I know he would be totally supportive of not speaking to police w/out a lawyer which is exactly what I instruct my young sons to do, ask for a lawyer. Full stop.
terrifying
Can the FBI not investigate
They don't want to, because to many cases might be overturned! So no they WON'T!
I went to the FBI,and brought it to their intention that a crooked county female court clerk that told the individual that I had kids with that her so called statement against me sounded like she started the incident, so the corrupt county court clerk told her to rewrite the complaint, so they tore up the original complaint and wrote totally different statement, got back with the individual that I had children with 3 weeks later, so I could be around my children,NOT HER, and she told me right out of her own mouth in her words what had happened, I was furious, so I went to FBI stated what occurred, FBI said they couldn't do anything, straight out DIRTY, because a bunch of cases that she was involved with would most likely be overturned! CORRUPT HAS IT GETS!
Sadly, they're pretty dirty, too!!
The FBI?! Talk about a CORRUPT agency!!! What the heck! You can’t be serious!
End qualified immunity
Yes
Finally somebody says something smart that's exactly what has to happen
Is there a longer episode somewhere? I’m glad people are investigating them. Abuse of power.
More of this type of coverage.
Yes
Wow, this is not a good look
How do people not know that everything is recorded now?
Obviously they know. And don't care. Still nothing is happening to them except tax money being handed over to their victims after lawsuits.
It feels like a sundown town. There's no lawlessness quite like a lawman's lawlessness.
Good ol’ boys, doing bad ol’ things.
I could write an award winning, critically acclaimed 1000 page thesis paper on this.
Most county sheriff's offices could be classified as criminal organizations
Our Sheriff in Wagoner County , Chris Elliott, assaulted a female inmate in the jail, then ordered the video be deleted. A staff member used their cell phone to capture it, then it wound up on CZcams, where anyone can watch it. FBI was notified and chose to do nothing.
My husband grew up in Wagoner, when189 bodies were dumped in our town of penrose Colorado, the mortician ran back to Wagoner. Amazed me.
Scary, very scarey!
University of Oklahoma tried to recruit me for grad school .. I said no way … I know their history
"The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy-Gang Crisis." ~New Yorker, May 30, 2022.
The LA Sheriff's dept is a collection of criminal gangs, what other Sheriffs are also set up with gangs?
This has been going on a long time and still is. We know the stories that were told years ago, besides what media has been revealing over time. Doesn't scratch the surface.
Long time resident of a small town under the reign of county sheriff's office. I concur with this piece, in that corruption is rampant.
Maybe I missed it. Did CBS make a news story about county district attorneys and the incredible power they have?
ABSOLUTE POWER ABSOLUTELY CORRUPTS. MUST HAVE OVERSIGHT N ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ACTIONS.
Absolutely 👍
Look in to St. Francois County, Missouri. Where 30 years of records just went “missing” after Sunshine Law requests were submitted.
if this is what they do in plain sight, it must be a literal nightmare living there.
Actual reporting?
I'm proud of you, based Japanese Chad.
Oh yeah, we need better oversight of our government servants...
This is my ancestral home, Little Dixie. What does one do when they can not turn to Deputies or Law Enforcers are either A. The Problem B. Too inept to handle the situation. Claridy and the gang that follows him should be held to a federal standard. These are the individuals that have vowed by honesty and integrity. What is represented in McCurtain County Department is opposite of justice. Even down to the evidence room, evidence come, goes or is destroyed. Imagine the irony of being jailed by said evidence but not knowing exactly what is represented by.
The bad guys are set up to fail. No one escapes justice. Claridy and the gang of Racists are on numbered days. Justice will come find you. Then you will know who is cutting you down.
16:03 “I really don’t care what somebodies accusing somebody of, or anything else.” That’s all I needed to hear!
I am 68 and have never been in trouble but I do not trust law enforcement. I would never answer anything they would ask me if I didn't have a lawyer on the phone.
Sheriff’s and marshals are uniquely American problems
That's why there needs to be term limits .
Why can't a state entity rescind an officer's, a deputy's or Sheriff's individual law enforcement license to operate in any part of it's state? ..or even someway through the Civil courts?
Thank you !!!
Just so gut wrenching and depressing.
Don't like the Sheriff, elect a new one. Its that simple people.
We need an organization that will accurately/ honestly investigate all policing departments in the U.S. - starting now
This video is saving lives ..cops and civilians alike
Best country in the world, eh?
FOLKLAHOMA IS ITS OWN COUNTRY! SAD! AND EVIL!
Used to be.
It's sad when u can't trust the people that supposed to protect an serve I just lost two baby brothers in that area one from being shot in back an it was called self defense an one hung in Choctaw jail in Hugo
Please help Southeastern Oklahoma please even one of the guys on this interview is corrupt! Sat there acting like we do not all remember him! Wow!!
Which one??
@@lindseyyoung9149 if you do not know it will be best for me to shut up now.
Sherrif can’t even do anything about a barking dog… so instead they beat the hell out of inmates at the county jail. I heard about that 10 years ago in San Francisco from SFPD.
Unbelievable. For first time maybe ever my current sheriff never makes psa or any public media events and it’s extremely different from last sheriff. I have tried to contact him and them with no response. Black hornet drones are no joke. Every ranch owner needs 2 things in this country. Thermal device of some kind monocular cheapest but not cheap. Then in this case m855 is crucial or rifle rounds. If constitutional law is enforced there is no problem. This is EXACTLY why the second amendment was enacted. At this point I don’t care who reads this it’s true accountability is unbelievably important. Uncontested election when last election was very contested.
They sign up for sheriff's to be legal criminals with authority while they arrest criminals that don't have it or don't play ball with them.
PEOPLE... MAKE A CHANGE... Stop running your mouth and run for office!
Cali has something like 18 certified gangs within the sheriffs department.
You can do a whole other series on Johnston County Oklahoma... czcams.com/video/Ktpy_y0jxsg/video.html
Bryan and Atoka county too
We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.
I would still take the sheriff's over police any day
100%!
The State and Federal government should be held accountable for this "good old boys club" to continue in 2024
Yes
At 11:39 "…that’s not a coincidence …" and I would agree. It’s a blind spot.
"…a lot of people like to lie too." Yup, we’re looking at two right now.
16:03 thats actually an insane statement by a law enforcement officer... "ireally dont care....what SOMEBODY IS ACCUSING SOMEBODY OF R ANYTHING ELSE" what ???? isnt ur job to INVESTIGATE CRIMES REPORTED BY CIVILIANS THAT YOUUUU WORKK FOR ??!! like what is going on here....? holy shyttt thats insssane
Higher power for the State of Oklahoma , just wear a name tag. They all show the people of Oklahoma means nothing to them. They all should be in jail .
The Sheriff is not a prosecutor. He or she has very limited power legally. The most powerful advantage is there is no city or county official in their jurisdiction that can terminate them.
We as a people have for centuries have decried corrupt law enforcement. No one does anything to stop it. So I have no empathy for what is happening now.
Vote folks, it’s every one place to
Why did that man lie to his kid at the end. The bad guys win every single day.
This is also judges, police and other ppl with power.
More money for DOJ !!!!
Accountability is critical!
😂😂😂
Wow! Just wow!
Wow. And I've seen advertisements in my area for screening of some documentary about "constitutional sheriffs" and how much power they have (to keep politicians accountable or some such), with the local sheriff there to talk to viewers. This was at a church. You can guess the political leanings. Very scary.
The fact they need lawyers shows a system failure. Throw attorney money back into training .
NOT the land of the FREE..👌
That guy that was hog tied in the middle of the street. I’ve been like that like 6 times, then they carry you like a suitcase.
Justice in America is not blind. It is based on human emotion - not law; one reason we have sentence deviation for the same crime.
WOW, TO MUCH POWER, THAT'S WHY THEY/ THEM DON'T WANT TO GIVE UP ALL THIS POWER, ON THIS WICKED EARTH. THEY GET TO DO WHAT THEY WANT TO WHO EVER, WITH NO CONSEQUENCES. IT'S DISGUSTING