Mike Williams will end more than three decades with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office with his retirement today -- a year before the end of his second term as the city’s sheriff.
“Sheriff Williams has maintained the trust and respect of our members during his time in office. His career of service to our community spanned over 30 years and was exemplary.”Northside Coalition President Ben Frazier, a local civil rights activist, said Williams had “good intentions” during his terms, but not everyone was pleased with his performance.
“This sheriff has been absent, missing and unaccounted for the past year and a half,” Frazier continued. “I think that in that one regard, his resignation, he is leading by example. Because we need somebody who can run this city the way it should be with regards to public safety.”Williams’ career as sheriff started with a close race in 2015. Williams won against six other candidates and took his oath in July of that year.
In 2017, the sheriff told News4JAX the department could begin using body cameras. Later that same year, in August 2017, the sheriff called for 100 new officers. “We’re looking at many different types of training, diversity training, implicit biased training,” Williams said.Three people died and nine people were hurt.In September of that year, the sheriff told News4JAX he was just as concerned about violent crime as any other Jacksonville citizen, “Clearly we’ve got issues.
Most of the protests were peaceful. Later that year, we heard calls for a citizen review board and the city’s Safer Together Committee --
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