SOME PEOPLE HOPE HEGE MOVES AWAY

I'd like to respond to the May 10 letter from Frank Goss supporting
Davidson County Sheriff Hege. Goss says he has heard people of a "criminal
nature" say that they stay away from Davidson County. I hear this quite
often as a justification for Hege's tactics. Well, we do have crime in
Davidson County, and a lot of it has been going on under the sheriff's nose.

I had heard rumors for years about people being stopped and drugs, etc.,
planted in their cars. I had heard about drugs disappearing after drug
busts, etc. I never believed these rumors. I trusted the law-enforcement
personnel in our county, but I believe the rumors now!

Goss also says that state statistics prove that crime has been lowered in
Davidson County. Please keep in mind that those statistics are
self-reported. Our sheriff's office has been accused of not reporting all
crime, so you'll just have to take those statistics with a grain of salt.

Goss mentioned that people in the mountain areas would be happy to have
Hege for a sheriff. Well, you know what? A lot of people in our county
would be happy to have him run for sheriff somewhere else, too.

DEBBIE LEONARD

Thomasville