Last post of 2023 features new book on sheriffs and recommendation for the renewal of Bob Mann’s blog

I know, I know, I’m supposed to be retired from this blog after almost 13 years – and I am – but I’m still writing other projects and I just wanted to let you know that I have another book out now. It’s a follow-up to Louisiana’s Rogue Sheriffs: A Culture of Corruption.

I decided to take a look at sheriffs in other states and found my suspicions confirmed: Louisiana is by no means unique. America’s Rogue Sheriffs: A Culture of Corruption examines miscreants in sheriffs’ departments in all but three states (those three don’t have sheriffs).

I also updated the chapter on Louisiana to include the Dennis Perkins story that broke after publication of Louisiana’s Rogue Sheriffs.

America’s Rogue Sheriffs opens by listing the consensus list of the 10 worst sheriffs in America. Surprisingly, Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, did not make the list. Others gems plucked from America’s Rogue Sheriffs:

• One state allowed three convicted felons to not only run for sheriff, but they actually won.
• A meth addict was elected sheriff, serving only two days before he was arrested.
• A sheriff and members of a rogue Navy intelligence office in Arlington, Virginia, attempted to establish a secret military training center in west Texas.
• Sheriffs use asset seizure laws to seize property from innocent drivers who quickly find that the burden of proof is on them to prove their innocence, not for prosecutors to prove their guilt – all under the cover of law.
• Sheriffs are involved in drug and sex trafficking, embezzlement, excessive force, money laundering, extortion, racketeering, prostitution, the unauthorized use of military weaponry, and even murder.

To order your copy of this 502-page book, send a check for $40 (which includes mailing costs) to me, Tom Aswell, 107 North College Street West, Denham Springs, Louisiana 70726 or click on the yellow DONATE rectangular button to the upper right of this post to pay by credit card.

Now, for those who might miss the posts of LouisianaVoice (and face it, judging from some of your comments, whatever your motive, even those of you who hated it still read it), I wish to direct you to Bob Mann’s renewal of Something Like the Truth.

Mann, so infuriated Attorney General Jeff Landry that he tried to get Mann fired from his LSU teaching job and now that he’s poised to become governor, he will have the power to do just that. So, Mann beat him to the punch by announcing he is leaving LSU and resuming his political blog, which is certain to be a much bigger thorn in Landry’s side than had he just allowed him to continue his professorship.

Anyway, Mann has reopened for business through a paid subscription of $5 per month or $50 per year. His observations on the body politic are well-worth the investment and I highly recommend that you give him a look by going HERE and follow the “Subscribe” link.:

For samples of his thought-provoking commentary go HERE and HERE.