Sheriff Rips Buttigieg's Proposed Drug Policies: 'He Is Guaranteeing More Drug Addicts'
Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg greets people during a campaign event in the The Skate Pit on Dec. 29, 2019, in Knoxville, Iowa. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)
By Jack Davis
Published December 31, 2019 at 8:41am
A Florida sheriff has denounced Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s call for ending incarceration for drug possession arrests.
Grady Judd, the sheriff of Polk County, said the proposal from the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, would make crime in America even worse.
“He is guaranteeing more drug addicts, he’s guaranteeing more crime and he’s guaranteeing less help because we don’t have enough services for those who are addicted to crimes now, and he’s going to create more addiction,” Judd said Friday on the Fox News morning program “Fox & Friends.”
Buttigieg spoke about his drug policy last week during an interview with The Des Moines Register’s editorial board.
“Incarceration should not even be a response to drug possession,” Buttigieg said.