Law Enforcement Candidate NOT!

A Law Enforcement Candidate: NOT!

    In my recently published article “Justice in Ohio” in PI Magazine it was noted that “one only has to watch cable tv’s Investigation Discovery Channel or Spike TV to see the many miscarriages of justice in our state.  Missing women in Chillicothe, OH, in Peeples, OH nine people shot and killed; both remain unsolved. I could go on, but you can catch the rest on either of the above-mentioned TV Channels.”

The question then arises, who was the head law enforcement officer during the time of the above-mentioned tragedies. None other than the Attorney General and candidate for Governor of the State of Ohio, Mike DeWine.

Mike DeWine a living example of Dr. Laurence J. Peter’s Peter Principal. A county prosecutor who should have remained a county prosecutor. Not only has the leading law enforcement officer in Ohio, and his agency failed in their respective duty his prior actions as Lt. Governor exacerbated the illness which lead to the demise of the then head of the then Governor George Voinovich’s Office of Criminal Justice Services, Joseph Gilyard. 

It’s obvious that people have short memories.  Joseph Gilyard while acting as the head of the Office of Criminal Justice Services, was the first to find or note the criminal activity within the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office under the leadership of then-Sheriff Earl Smith.  In his attempt to bring this matter to the public’s eye he stepped on the toes of the leaders of the head of the Franklin County Republican Party. History was to later prove Joseph Gilyard’s accusations were right on the money as Sheriff Smith’s Chief Deputy and bag men were later convicted in Federal Court for violations of the Hatch Act.

But Joe would never know as he was of the receiving end of a hatchet job carried out by then Lt. Governor Mike DeWine at the bequest of then-Governor George Voinovich and John W. Wolfe, Chairman of the Columbus Dispatch a then-Republican newspaper. Mr. Wolfe was the holder of badge No. 1 in the criminal scheme of selling Deputy Sheriff Badges and commissions. Mr. Wolfe’s personal secretary was the Campaign Manager for Sheriff Smith.

A Law Enforcement candidate?  Not!  Just ask the families of the victims of those yet unsolved crimes and Joe Gilyard’s family.