Explaining her surprising victory in a blog post, DiMezzo wrote: “I went into it expecting that I would lose the primary to a write-in candidate, because I didn’t think that so many voters were just… completely and totally oblivious about who they are voting for.
“Because the fact is that you didn’t bother. You trusted the system. You trusted the establishment. You trusted the party. You felt safe.
“You were sure that there must be some mechanisms in place to prevent from occurring exactly what just occurred.
“Your anger is misplaced if you direct it at me. Please listen. Your anger is with the system that has lied to you. Your anger is with the system that convinced you to believe in it, trust in it, and have faith in it, when it is completely and utterly broken.
“More than 4,000 people went into the voting booth on September 8 this week, and they all filled in the circle by my name despite knowing absolutely nothing about the person they were nominating to the most powerful law enforcement position in the county.
“That’s a level of recklessness of which any decent human being should be ashamed.”
I tend to think of ancaps being the type to just let people sink or swim on their own, so you know, not the best person to be in charge of the police. I support defunding the police and moving that funding to things like social services. The police are bad, but sometimes people call them because they really do need help and there's nobody else to call. Putting an ancap in charge of something that's supposed to be a public service seems bad to me. But who knows, maybe it'd be no worse than anyone else in charge.
yeah i dont disagree with this, i just think that if someones against the police, and has control over the police, it is better than having someone who is pro-police... since maybe the ancap in question would be open to moving funds away from her department and into other programs that would be better able to respond to the communities needs? idk