Q+A: Sheriff candidates lay out their vision for running Metro Police

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : We need to reassure prospects that law enforcement is a great career with a great pension, and it's probably the most exciting, exhilarating job on the planet, and you get to make a difference.
58% : In general across the country, recruiting is a challenge for law enforcement.
56% : The upcoming $25 million Reality-Based Training Center will allow law enforcement to train with private resort security officers, firefighters and medics.
52% : With the return of large events, collaboration with partner law enforcement agencies will remain key, because I don't see Metro getting any substantial increases in the number of officers that we need.
52% : Marijuana is legal now.
45% : Obviously, we can't have officers smoking marijuana, but is it really a disqualifier that you previously consumed marijuana a number of times?
42% : Also, nobody ever seems to talk about women in law enforcement.
38% : With legal marijuana that can't be smoked in public, I'm in favor of consumption lounges, because even though marijuana was legalized, that didn't remove the illegal trade.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.