This Nebraska Sheriff Cared More about His Territory than Solving a Violent Crime

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On March 3, 2021, Sheriff Karl Dailey of Dawes County, Nebraska, was found guilty of a misdemeanor charge of official misconduct for his refusal to accept a detainee into the Dawes County Jail. This story may sound minor, but it is yet another case demonstrating why electing sheriffs leads to toxic men failing communities all around the country.

Judging from social media posts, the victim in this story is a Lakota woman. I will call her Judith to protect her identity. We have all heard the harrowing statistics about how crimes against native women are not adequately pursued by the criminal justice system. Over half of native women experience sexual violence, and in some locations they are murdered at ten times the national murder rate. Yet due to racially discriminatory laws and biases within the justice system, these crimes often go unsolved. This is a look at one Nebraska sheriff’s total dismissal of the gravity of such a crime.

Here is what is alleged in the court documents. In July of 2019, a complete piece of shit I will call J.S. to protect his victim’s identity, who lived in South Dakota, kidnapped his 21-year-old girlfriend, Judith. Moving from one location to another in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska, J.S. inflicted horrific trauma on Judith. He raped her repeatedly. After raping her he strangled her until she passed out, using both his hands and Christmas lights. When he strangled her on July 19, 2019, she regained consciousness to discover that her eyes had been so badly damaged in the strangulation that she was blind for six days, during which time he continued to rape her, strangle her into unconsciousness, and move her to new locations. At one point this fucker dug her a grave and made her sit in it.

Can we take a moment to breathe here? This is life-altering terror. The kind people will struggle to overcome for decades.

Read more: https://seeingrednebraska.com/misogyny/this-nebraska-sheriff-cared-more-about-his-territory-than-solving-a-violent-crime/

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1. Nebraska ...

I lived in Thurston County (55) for six years. This is a few of MANY things he did.

To be a Sheriff, all you need to do is post a $20,000 bond. Our sheriff was tired of being a bar owner in another county.

His wife was his dispatcher and his son (a major pot dealer in those days) was his head deputy.

His wife also dispatched the volunteer fireman. After running the volunteers to the wrong quadrant of the county twice in two weeks, the VF invited the sheriff to talk. Once the sheriff understood the conversation, he stood up and walked out saying, the VF had no authority over him.

For whatever reason he got po'd over the State Trooper who patrolled SR9 through town and because of the arcane NE laws regarding sheriffs, our sheriff limited the statey to 9: he was not allowed to travel on any other road. He was only allowed to eat at Po Po's on 9.

One of the candidates that ran against him was patrolling as town constable in Bertram, which has about eight houses, a bar (one of the very few places to buy beer on Sunday), a county mechanic's garage and silos for the train to draw corn or beans to deliver somewhere else.

One night he thought he saw someone at the silos, so he parked his car with the head lights on at one end and worked his way around the other way to catch his perp in a pincer movement of one man and his car. When he saw his car, he thought it was moving, so he shot his car.

Oh there's more. Lots more. Anyone want to meet for a beer when the pandemic is under Joe's control and spend an evening laughing?