Since taking office, McCann has computerized the evidence room, electronically logging items collected as evidence or recovered from burglaries. He's also obtained state funding for a traffic enforcement program that pays deputies to enforce DWI laws and other traffic offenses on county roads. McCann has initiated job training and drug counseling in the county jail to help rehabilitate repeat offenders. But we're still dealing with the same criminals that I did when I started in 1973. Now, it's their children, too.
Jails just warehouse people.
If we can give them some job training, we may break that cycle. The two candidates are quite a contrast in personalities. Hogan is quick to greet people, and his friends say he can be intense on the job. If I wanted to do something, I'd get everyone behind me, and we'd do it. McCann, in turn, is thoughtful and soft spoken.