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In an often contentious and combative contest, the 蜜柚直播 endorses Sheriff Mark Napier to continue in the role of Pima County Sheriff.

While his opponent, former Sheriff Chris Nanos, is just as experienced, Napier sets himself apart with his demeanor and understanding of the issues facing both the department and the profession.

Although the administration of the law knows no party, the office of sheriff is partisan in 蜜柚直播. However, even running as the Republican candidate, Napier is the more progressive 鈥� and better 鈥� candidate.

Napier鈥檚 plan for securing funding for body cameras for officers, is both more nuanced than Nanos鈥� 鈥渄ay one鈥� priority that he puts on the devices, and more realistic.

The incoming sheriff will have to work with an incoming, and totally new, county attorney to secure the federal grants and other monies needed to pay for the program, all things Napier acknowledged in our Editorial Board candidate discussion.

Policing, both as a singular calling and as a profession, has under a new level of scrutiny in America.

National movements like Black Lives Matter and smaller, local activist groups, have raised questions about funding, policing tactics and county priorities.

At the county level going forward, the sheriff鈥檚 office requires leadership that will display a steady hand of enforcement when needed, but also exhibit the willingness to listen, deescalate and even yield if the situation calls for it.

It will mean recognizing hard truths.

During our endorsement discussion, Napier did just that when acknowledged that the nation鈥檚 founding documents fell precipitously short on race.

鈥淔rom the founding of this country, we have degraded Black lives,鈥� he said. 鈥淚n fact, our very founding documents were founded on and ignored the issue of slavery,鈥� he continued, before mentioning the Three-Fifths Compromise and other historic indignities suffered by people of color.

Napier also said that the violence and rioting only serves to detract from the righteous argument BLM and many of their supporters make.

The answer stood in stark contrast to Nanos, who gave a rambling response that bordered on incoherent and included him saying that Blacks wanted to be treated the same as 鈥渨hites, browns and yellows鈥� before he clarified that he was just 鈥渢hrowing out colors.鈥�

For all of Napier鈥檚 superlatives, there are issues that must be addressed: chronic low moral within the department, an all-too-packed jail system and funding for additional personnel and resources all need to be addressed, before they risk compounding upon each other.