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Law Enforcement is not just a job!

  • Writer: Paul Deaver
    Paul Deaver
  • Jan 20, 2020
  • 3 min read




, it is a career and lifestyle. I always have enjoyed being a public servant, taking great pride in my service. Of course It has his stressful moments like most professions. Looking back at my 23 years of public service I must say that the 4 years while working for Sheriff Casey Hurlburt was the most stressful, trying, and demanding time in my career. When I started my employment with the VCS, I did not know much about Casey Hurlburt or his family. Our wives became friends rather quick and family friendships where built. My family and I fell in love with Valley County do to the many great people here, the school system, and the great opportunities it has to offer. Within a short period of time, Valley county became our home. As I worked for Sheriff Hurlburt and got to know him on a personal level, the harder it became to tolerate his theatrical leadership. Early on, Hurlburt told my wife and I that he picked out his spouse during a school event in her home town. She was only 13 at the time. When she was 16 she had her first child from him, while he was 21. I was told that the Law Enforcement Agency he worked for would not sponsor himnin becoming certified as a Law Enforcement Officer in the State of Nebraska due to the lack of moral character and the situation he put his now spouse in. Hurlburt told us more several times, you don’t get anywhere in life if you don’t cheat. From derby cars with illegal hidden welds on the frame and body to win the heats, to pursuing other women, and everything in between. Hulburt told me about property within the City of Ord that he was going to buy and boasted about a 99 year lease that would allow him to have livestock on the property. Hurlburt was told by City Officials that he was not compliant with City Code and was forced to remove the livestock and sell the property after he had exhausted legal litigation. Regularly us employees listened to Hurlburt as he carried on about his wife’s infidelity and mental state of mind. Calling her things like bipolar, schizophrenic, crazy and a cheater to justify his actions in pursuing other females openly in front of me. The Sheriff’s personal issues constantly effected the work environment of the VCSO, as he would ether be a crying mess, explosive as a stick of dynamite, or not available at all for his team. The jail was run in the same manner, depending if he had time or was busy with personal matters. One day an inmate would be allowed outside 5 times and then not at all. No consistency with department policy and procedures within the Jail, Dispatch , or Law Enforcement Patrol and Duties. The longer I was employed the more it became problematic to for fill my duties as an impartial/ unbiased Law Enforcement Officer. When citations where turned in or someone called the Sheriff about their citation I was called out by the Sheriff because he might lose a possible Voter, no matter of the severity of the offense or circumstances. There was not respectful disagreeing with Sheriff Hurlburt without the threat of being fired or forced to resign. Things that needed corrected within the office by Hurlburt were so overcorrected in outbursts of range and anger that staff resigned regularly. This same behavior was demonstrated three days after I left the VCSO and a pickup was riddled with 40 some bullets by the Sheriff. I do strongly believe the pickup needed to be stopped by and after reviewing even just the news article I feel strongly that even one shot at a sitting duck is overkill. No Law Enforcement training center is training or advising any Law Enforcement Officer to do this, unlike Ord’s Nuisance Public Figure would like people to believe. Why didnt I leave the VCSO sooner? Because I was hoping things might turn around and for Sheriff Hurlburt to change his ways as he was new at being an administrative leader. Ord and Valley County is our home, the place we love, raised our children, and hope to welcome grandchildren.

 
 
 

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