But Barnes says he has no such ambitions. What satisfies him is to look out his window and see prisoners working and dogs with owners. Go to top A share of the sheriff's solutions Carrier Alert. Mail carriers work with B.J. Barnes' Guilford County, N.C., sheriff's department to identify problems in their communities. Emergency shelters are set up for the infirm, elderly and indigent in bad weather.
Barnes puts inmates to work building doghouses for elderly people who want to adopt abandoned pets.
On his cable program, he showed a dog from the county animal shelter being euthanized, spurring more adoptions. In true community-policing fashion, Barnes broke his jurisdiction into districts and assigned deputies to the districts in which they live. Chicago-based Steve Rhodes last wrote about drug testing in schools. All rights reserved.