San Francisco Sheriff’s Department. Sheriff Michael Hennessey.

San Francisco Sheriff's Department.

Sheriff Michael Hennessey

San Francisco Sheriff's

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With over 800 deputies, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department is the nations largest Sheriff's department with no patrol function.

Is Sheriff Michael Hennessey Too PC?

The Sheriff Was Never a cop!

The Sheriff hired an Assistant Sheriff that Was a Convicted Killer!

The Undersheriff is the First Lesbian To Hold The Title!

My Sexual Harassment Teacher was Fired For Sexual Harassment!

My Code Of Ethics Teacher Was Fired For Drugs & Prostitution Involvement!

Acupuncture For Convicted Criminals!

A Porn Star Who Passed an Oral Interview & Background Investigation!

You Can't Make Up Stuff This Good.

The proof is in the links below!

Punk Sheriff

Photo from http://www.going-straight.com/reviews.shtml

Sheriff appoints convicted killer Michael Marcum to assistant Sheriff position

Sheriff Appoints first Lesbian Undersheriff

San Francisco: Camelot or deceit?

Changing the culture of law enforcement

S.F. will no longer ask most city job applicants up front if they've ever been convicted of a crime.

Worst things that can happen in jail

Affirmative Action

Hennessey Refuses To Shutdown Cannabis Healing Center

Hennessey Unknowingly Attends A Sex Party

Photo not from party.

Racial Privacy Initiative

Politically Correct Punishment

Sheriff Michael Hennessey, presides over the wedding ceremony of Nan Humbel, and Undersheriff Jan Dempsey.

2003 Gay Pride Parade Photo

Rudi Cox first openly gay peace officer in the nation

The Sheriff Hires a Porn Star

S.F. jailer allegedly fired in sex case
Transgender person suing for assault

Gay inmates' complaints of abuse at San Bruno jail being investigated (Part)

Deputy given notice for 'failing to cooperate' in jail probe (Part2)

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Lawsuits mount over jail's practices regarding strip searches

2005 judge rules strip searches unconstitutional

Deputies Not Keen On Class for Inmates
More about outwitting cops than rights

Deputies skip work after inmate beats guard

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Mother demands answers after sick son's death in jail

Integrating jail gangs a tense transition

Department News Blog

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This is my boss Sheriff Michael Hennessey. He's a nice guy and all but a lot of people disagree with his politics, and the way he runs his department. What they don't realize is that the good liberals of San Francisco got exactly what they wanted; A sheriff who's a lawyer and was never a cop. But isn't that what you would expect from the voters of San Francisco.

The truth is Sheriff Hennessey has done a lot for his department. During his time as sheriff the department has grown, almost doubled in fact. He has built several state of the art jails, and has tried to rehabilitate 1000's of criminals. He has also been very lenient about who he hires. He'll give anyone a chance and in some cases a second chance. He'll hire people other departments wouldn't even consider. I'm not sure that's a good thing. You should see some of the folks he's given a gun and badge to. Many Deputies have said, "If the shit hits the fan call 911," although when there is a crisis, I am always amazed how well we come through, so he must be doing something right. Sheriff Hennessey has pushed political correctness to the edge by appointing and promoting people who many feel did not deserve a promotion. Some of his minority promotions even had other minorities wondering what the hell he was thinking.

A little about the Sheriff from his official site below.

He's from Iowa originally. He graduated from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota in 1970 with a BA degree in history, and then graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law. After he received his state bar, he accepted an assignment as Legal Counsel to then Sheriff Richard Hongisto.

In 1975, he founded the San Francisco Jail Project, a legal assistance program for indigent prisoners with civil legal problems and provided training for law students and new lawyers while offering technical assistance to the Sheriff's Department. He managed the Jail Project until May 1979, when friends in the Department and civic-minded San Franciscans encouraged him to seek election as Sheriff even though he was never a peace officer. He is the only Sheriff in California who is a lawyer.

EDUCATION USF School of Law, 1973
Admitted to state and federal courts, 1973.

PROFESSIONAL VISTA lawyer 1974-75
Director of inmate legal services program 1974-79
Elected Sheriff 1979; reelected 1983, 1987, 1991, 1995 and 1999. Law Enforcement News "Man of the Year," for leadership in fact-based policy & training regarding AIDS in jails & prisons.

ACHIEVEMENTS
AS SHERIFF Mike Hennessey has served as Sheriff for over 20 years. As Sheriff, Hennessey has won nationwide recognition for the success of his minority recruitment programs for women and minorities, including gay men and lesbians. His staff reflects the diversity of San Francisco's population.
He has increased employee training more than 500% and has received 15 consecutive annual awards from the state for "Excellence in Training." He is one of the nation's pioneers in establishing "new generation/direct supervision" jails that have proven to be safer and more cost effective than traditional facilities, typically designed around linear cell blocks.
Sheriff Hennessey's pioneering efforts to rehabilitate prisoners include a wide range of prisoner education and substance abuse recovery programs such as Acupuncture, and G.E.D. classes that emphasize the continuation of school and living chemical free.
Other programs include horticulture, an organic gardening therapy project, and Tree Corps, which offers ex-offenders employment by planting and caring for trees in major thoroughfares in San Francisco.
Most recently, Sheriff Hennessey has worked with victim rights advocates to create Resolve to Stop the Violence (RSVP), an anti-violence curriculum for prisoners who have been convicted of violent crimes.

With all these credentials and accomplishments, why do the same old criminals continue to return to jail year after year? Is it all a feel good politically correct sham? Has Sheriff Hennessey taken the punishment out of punishment, and turned the San Francisco jail system into a revolving door for drug dealers and the homeless? It depends on who you ask.