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Frank Milstead: “While the chief in Mesa, I was able to, with our crime…”

Featuring: Frank Milstead, Republican | Former Candidate, Maricopa County Sheriff | Arizona

Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead

Published July 13, 2015 | Video Starts at 16:30

… efficiencies and knowing that the Department of Public Safety was also in need of some of those innovations. I think that was part of it. And the other part was While the chief in Mesa, I was able to, with our crime fighting model, drive crime in Mesa to historic lows. We had never been in the top 10 for safe cities, over 400,000 people. And in about two and a half, maybe three years, we went from not even broaching the top 10 to be in the third safest city, over 400,000. (16:30–16:38)

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Asserts that crime in Mesa was reduced to historic lows under his leadership.

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“The city hall in Mesa was raided by the sheriff's department.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 04:23-04:28
“My entire time, five years in Mesa, the only time that the sheriff came in and did any roundup or any raid was one time.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 05:10-05:19
“In municipal law enforcement, our first, even in state law enforcement, our first call to duty is that of protecting our citizens and making…”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 06:17-06:26
“In Mesa we had a very specific rule that we dealt with and that was people based on criminal predicate.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 06:28-06:38
“Before the 1070 days, it was prohibitive to ask status. After 1070, it became permissive to ask.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 06:39-06:48
“There are no cities in Arizona that deal with immigration issues unless it's based on some sort of criminal conduct.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 08:28-08:38
“If you section out a piece of your community and only enforce certain laws against those persons, they will not be good witnesses.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 08:38-08:49
“Arizona is a conduit for illicit drugs.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 10:21-10:25
“DPS troopers are some of the best interdictors in the country.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 10:33-10:38
“Heroin is the biggest problem for the country. All across the country, deaths are up fivefold, seizures are up threefold.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 10:51-11:00
“We are the State Police Department. We provide statewide laboratory service. We are the Arizona Highway Patrol.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 11:23-11:31
“Everything except for the what goes on in Mesa and Phoenix. We have four labs across the state.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 11:39-11:46
“Backlog there was, and we were down. We're down to 150 days. It was over 180 days when I got there.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 11:51-11:59
“We provide lab service. We are the Arizona Highway Patrol. We are responsible for training of law enforcement statewide.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 12:43-12:53
“Coverage from DPS is 75% of the state.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 14:26-14:34
“We rely on cellular coverage or we rely on other jurisdictions to help us [in some areas].”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 14:33-14:39
“We went from not even broaching the top 10 to be in the third safest city, over 400,000.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 16:45-16:50
“80%, roughly, of all of our wrong way incursions are by an impaired driver.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 19:47-19:53
“The average blood alcohol concentration is much higher than an .08.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 20:49-21:02
“The science that's behind the .08 tells you that everybody starts to become impaired at a point .04.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 21:01-21:09
“The blood alcohol concentration was a .15. So it went down from .1.5 to .1 0 and now to .08.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 21:12-21:22
“In Mesa, for instance, our holiday task force last year, we actually arrested more people impaired by drugs than we did by alcohol.”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 21:48-21:56
“We had fixed speed cameras at the schools and it did make a difference. It slowed drivers down around the schools and I think saved kids…”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 22:52-23:01
“Technology through the tough budget times suffered. And I think we can really enhance efficiencies in the department and effectiveness…”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 23:47-23:57
“We're managing the issue. We're building partnerships. It makes us drive relationships as well with the sheriffs and with the federal…”
Newsmaker Sunday: DPS Col. Frank Milstead | Uploaded July 13, 2015 | 24:05-24:17