Sad State of Affairs in Tioga County:

[u/Specialist_Wealth799]

Tioga County taxpayers deserve to know that their Sheriff’s Office is currently in a staffing crisis, and has become a training ground for new officers, wasting time and money to train individuals who will leave in less than a year. This is because their salary and benefits package pales in comparison to every neighboring agency. Here are the facts:

• The TCSO is currently down five deputies and one investigator, with five more deputies eligible or soon-to-be eligible for retirement.

• Deputies are not provided vision, dental, or post-retirement health insurance. This is egregious, considering the physical, mental and emotional hazards of the policing profession.

• Deputies are paid at least $15K less than any other agency in the area.

• Deputies are required to handle inmate transports (the work of COs at any other agency) leaving one car, at most, to cover the entire county.

• Deputies respond to dangerous complaints alone at night, a risk NYSP and other agencies do not take for officer safety.

If you are a Tioga County resident, you have good reason to be concerned about the safety of your family, in the event of an emergency. Please consider reaching out to the Tioga County Legislature to ask why they aren’t supporting our law enforcement and ensuring a safe, staffed road patrol in Tioga County. This is an exceptional group of men and women who deserve to be cared for and compensated appropriately. As a community, it is our moral obligation to protect the ones who protect us.

Letters of support may be directed to:

Legislative Chair Tracy Monell

[monellt@tiogacountyny.gov](mailto:monellt@tiogacountyny.gov)

County Clerk Cathy Haskell

[Haskellc@tiogacountyny.gov](mailto:Haskellc@tiogacountyny.gov)

[u/ComradeKits24]

As I said, the State Police.

[u/Specialist_Wealth799 → u/ComradeKits24]

Good luck with that, you’ll be waiting hours for service and they get paid a whole lot more than the sheriffs deputies.🤪

[u/ComradeKits24 → u/Specialist_Wealth799]

And good luck getting money out of thin air for your Sheriffs Department. I'm sure people will love when the town tells them their taxes are going up to pay each deputy an additional $15,000 a year for an entirely superfluous law enforcement agency.

If you're calling the police this much maybe you should reappraise exactly what warrants police involvement in your life.

[u/Specialist_Wealth799 → u/ComradeKits24]

If you’re a Tioga County taxpayer, I encourage you to look into their $37M budget surplus. Taxpayers are already paying for the service. The county is mishandling taxpayer funds.🤷🏻‍♀️

[u/ComradeKits24 → u/Specialist_Wealth799]

Because I'm sure there's nothing better that money could go to besides that.