Los Angeles County Sheriff Refuses to Force His Employees to Accept Covid Shots

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, Wiki
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva refused to enforce a vaccine mandate on employees because it would risk losing up to 10% of his workforce. After his department’s budget was cut by $145.5-million in June 2020, partly due to the ‘defund-the-police’ movement, Villanueva said he already faces losing hundreds of officers at a time when homicides have surged 31% in the first six months of 2021 compared to last year. The Los Angeles Police Department may face serious staffing problems as 24% of the LAPD’s 12,000 employees sought religious or medical exemptions to the vaccine mandate last month and may walk off the job if the shots are forced. Sheriff Villanueva refused to enforce the County’s indoor mask mandate in July, stating that it was not backed by science. -GEG

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has refused to enforce a local vaccine mandate, saying he would risk losing up to 10 per cent of his workforce if he did.

After his department’s budget was cut by $145.5 million in June 2020, partly as a result of the ‘defund the police’ movement, Villanueva says he already faces losing hundreds of officers.

Enforcing COVID vaccine mandates would further cripple the force at a time when homicides have surged 31 per cent in the first six months of 2021 compared to last year.

“This is like the worst of two worlds right here, so we have to pick and choose,” said Villanueva, adding that he would lose 5-10 per cent of his staff “overnight” if he enacted the Los Angeles City Council’s mandate, which was passed on Wednesday.

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Hat Bailey
Hat Bailey
2 years ago

This kind of Sheriff is our best hope for defeating top down despotism, God bless Sheriff Mack and the CSPOA for the work they are doing to educate Sheriffs on how to be a constitutional Sheriff.

Tom Ball
Tom Ball
2 years ago

It is a disgrace that Americans who claim to be patriots and value freedom would allow brave men like this to stand alone against the forces of tyranny.

Ragnar D.
Ragnar D.
2 years ago

We must support this type of prudent behavior from law enforcement since the police can make or break a tyranny. They don’t call a tyranny a “politician state”; they don’t call it a “lawyer state”; they call it a “POLICE state”. Our local sheriffs could soon become a formidable defense against corrupt state, federal, and even international thugs who flash their plastic badges at us to push us around.