NOAH ROBINSON OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR SHERIFF OF VANDERBURGH COUNTY

 SHERIFF’S DEPUTY NOAH ROBINSON FILING DAY SPEECH

WELCOMING REMARKS

After meeting with thousands of Vanderburgh County residents at their homes, offices and places of worship I am pleased to announce that I will be your Democratic candidate for Vanderburgh County Sheriff. 

Thank you to my tireless wife for putting up with me over this past year; she is my confidant and partner in every respect. Thank you to my family who have made great sacrifices in order to make our campaign possible. Thank you to the dozens of sheriff’s deputies and confinement officers who are here supporting me, as well as countless other friends and supporters. 

Thank you to my campaign manager, City Councilman Ben Trockman, whose work ethic inspires me and friendship sustains me. Thank you to my Treasurer, Knight Township Trustee Kathryn Martin, whose caring nature and selflessness has shown me what it means to be a true public servant. Thank you to the elected officials standing behind me who are a continual source of guidance and support, including City Clerk Laura Windhorst, City Councilwoman Missy Mosby, Darmstadt Clerk-Treasurer Mallory Lowe, and City Councilwoman Kaitlin Moore Morley. 

Qualifications 

I’ve spent the past 23 years of my law enforcement career learning how to listen to people and understand their problems. I have a track record full of decisive actions and measurable accomplishments. When I say I am going to do something, I do it.

I served nearly ten years patrolling the streets, learning firsthand about the problems facing our families and businesses. I was a training deputy for over six years, helping to mold new sheriff’s deputies into competent law enforcers. I became a certified law enforcement instructor through the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy so that I could train the next generation of sheriff’s deputies. 

I took hundreds of drunk drivers off the road and taught dozens of deputies how to do the same. I spent five years developing our agency’s policies and procedures, ensuring our deputies operated with sound tactics and on solid legal footing. I conducted dozens of internal investigations and treated every accused employee with fairness and dignity. 

I expanded our agency’s social media presence, focused on communicating crime information directly to our many neighborhood organizations, and created our first ever Bicycle Patrol. I obtained over a million dollars in grant funding for our Office so that we could better serve the citizens of our county. I pushed for the expansion of our Information Technology Unit, doubling the size of the staff and improving responsiveness. I served as Human Resources director, overhauling our hiring process and improving our record keeping system. I worked to strengthen the relationship of our Office with the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation and enhance the safety of our schools by improving information sharing and cooperation. 

I have served in every rank the sheriff’s office has, including Chief Deputy and second in command. I don’t have to learn how to run the Sheriff’s Office; I know how to run the Sheriff’s Office. 

CAMPAIGN PLATFORM 

My campaign platform reflects my experience and my expertise. 

I Will Keep Our Kids Safe. School Safety is and has always been my top priority. The best way to combat crime is to prevent our kids from becoming criminals. This means more than just having a police officer present in a school. Our specially trained deputies will mentor our youth and build relationships so that there will be no “school to prison” pipeline on my watch. 

I Will Protect Our Neighborhoods and Businesses. Our residents deserve to feel safe in their own homes. To that end, I will dramatically re-imagine the way sheriff’s deputies are deployed within our community. The residents of our neighborhoods, subdivisions and business districts will see and know the deputies who protect their homes, workplaces, and places of worship. Our deputies will be focused on preventing, detecting, and solving crimes by partnering with our residents and becoming valuable members of the neighborhoods they serve. 

I Will Root Out Violent Criminals and Drug Dealers who destroy our neighborhoods and poison our community. I will assign additional staff to the local ATF Task Force in order to trace, intercept and stop the flow of illegal guns into the hands of criminals who terrorize our neighborhoods. I will ensure the Sheriff’s Office continues to aggressively pursue drug dealers, while also seeking funding to treat drug users in the grips of addiction. 

I Will Hold Offenders Accountable and Make Our Jail More Efficient. Our law enforcement officers work hard to take criminals off the street and keep our community safe. As a community, we have a duty to do our best to keep one-time criminals from becoming repeat offenders. I will implement an aggressive substance-abuse and P.O. Box 15016, Evansville, IN 47716 | 812.647.6970 | noahforsheriff.com 

mental health treatment program combined with life skills and vocational job training. When offenders rejoin our community, they must have the prospect of employment, stable housing, and a drug free routine in order to interrupt the cycle of criminal behavior. I will not advocate for any jail expansion that is not specifically designed and purpose built to treat our inmates’ mental health and substance abuse issues. We cannot continue to operate our jail with half the required staff. We must fairly compensate and incentivize our confinement officers for the challenging work they do and empower them with the training and autonomy needed to make positive changes in the lives of the inmates they care for. 

I Will Invest in Modern Training, Hire a Diverse Staff, and Remove Conflicts of Interest. When a citizen is stopped by a sheriff’s deputy, I want the interaction to be safe, respectful, and professional. We will train our staff in the most modern and forward thinking law enforcement techniques, procedures, and strategies while ensuring our deputies and officers understand the issues of bias in law enforcement. I will seek out and hire the best, most qualified, and diverse workforce available. For a law enforcement agency to be effective, the agency must be perceived as both legitimate and transparent. We will end the practice of conducting our own criminal investigations of shootings involving our sheriff’s deputies. When an individual loses their life while being apprehended by a deputy or while in the custody of our Jail, an outside agency will conduct the investigation. 

 CLOSING REMARKS 

These are just some of the changes I will implement during my first term. I look forward to discussing my plans further in the coming days and months. This is a grassroots campaign, made up of thousands of supporters who believe in my vision for the Sheriff’s Office.

This May, I humbly ask for your vote in order that my plan can become a reality. 

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