NPA Podcast with Guest Chad Bianco, Sheriff of Riverside County and Candidate for California Governor
Hi. This is Sergeant Betsy Brantner Smith with the National Police Association, and this is the National Police Association podcast. I have a guest today that I'm pretty sure most of you know. He's really making a a a big splash on the political scene running for the governor of California. But before all of this, he's been spending most of his adult life serving the citizens of his community.
Betsy Smith:And so I thought you really needed to meet him and really understand that that heart for service that we don't always see in our political leaders. So sheriff Chad Bianco, welcome to the show.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Thank you very much. I'm glad to be here.
Betsy Smith:So I I gotta ask you the same thing I ask everybody else because we've all got a story. Why'd you become a cop?
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Yeah. There really is no why. I think if I was I you gotta be super honest. It was the pay and the benefits were more than what I was making at the time. And, I think that probably that really truly is why because I never had an interest in law enforcement before.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We don't have a family background, anything like that. There was one time in college where I thought of being like a a fish and game wildlife person, and that that, I guess, coulda close close to law enforcement, but it really I just fell into it. The day one of the academy, I put myself through an academy. Day one of the academy, it was like, oh my gosh. This is the greatest thing in the world.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And it it truly has been. I don't have any I don't remember any bad days in law enforcement. It's been great for me, great for my family, and it I truly you know, we I I'm a god believer, and I think god led me into this path. And he knew that this is where I was supposed to be and where the skills that he gave me were going to be best used. And I've I've I've enjoyed the last thirty two years immensely.
Betsy Smith:Awesome. So tell everybody where you work and just kind of the highlights here, Kirk, because you've done a lot of different things.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:I have. I'm with the Riverside County Sheriff's Office. We're in Southern California. It's a big agency. We're the fourth largest sheriff's agency in the country.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:I've got just shy of 4,400 employees, 17 contract cities, so that's it. That's that's that's a handful, 17 city councils on top of a board of supervisors, bunch of jails, five jails, 17 13, patrol stations. We're we're a very, very large agency. I've got a 1.3 just shy of $1,300,000,000 budget. So it's big.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It's a it's massive agency, and I I'm very blessed to be, the leader of it. We've got great employees. It's absolutely love it. My career, I've been doing it for thirty two years. I started in corrections, which typically that's what you do at a sheriff's office.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We've changed that here. But, I did a couple of years in the jail and then went out to patrol and, obviously, loved my patrol experience. I I was in narcotics enforcement for a while. That was probably my favorite. I I started to promote.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:I did internal affairs. I have an internal affairs background. I I did not want to go to internal affairs. That was, like, the worst.
Betsy Smith:But in hindsight no friends.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:You do not. And but I will tell you, in hindsight, it was probably the best thing for my career. It truly did show me that everybody wasn't as ethical as I thought I was, and, you know, deputies do some pretty dumb things that we that we have to investigate. And it really showed me that there's a completely different side of law enforcement than the black and white. The the the admin part, the budget parts, the the lawsuit parts, the civil liability, all of those things.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:So that really probably sent my career on the trajectory up. And so once I started promoting, I went back to patrol. I had a detective bureau for some time. That probably was the most I don't wanna say impactful, but the most memorable time in my career back in 2005. I definitely, personally, as a dad, as a protector, you know, it I've got three boys and a daughter.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:My baby's a girl. And, there's child sex crimes, child crimes against children. Those are very personal, and they're they're easy to investigate, and you you definitely want to solve those. So back in 2006, I was responsible for bringing Dateline to, to my station. We did a sting.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It was the first in the country. It became Dateline's number one successful show, I guess. It was Dateline to catch a predator. And we brought a bunch of predators into our community, 51 of them over a three day period that we arrested for coming here to molest a child, and it really showed the dangers of the Internet and how easy it was for kids to pick up on on or or for for kids to be picked up on by adults and misled and and the danger. So, we it changed our county.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We still have a a countywide task force that that was formed because of that sting, and, we play a big part in that today. So that was a that that that's a special part for my career. I ended up promoting again as a lieutenant. I was a lieutenant for quite a while, six years, seven years, and, I got to the point where I knew we were not doing we we weren't being honest with the public. We weren't being honest with with our what our capabilities should have been, what we were doing with money.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We weren't trying to save money, but we were telling people we were. And the administration, I just I was getting very disenfranchised with what law enforcement is supposed to be doing telling the truth, and we were being told to, to deny things or not talk to the press because they didn't want the truth getting out. And at that time, I I was a lieutenant, and I decided to run for sheriff back in 2014. And, I lost, and it was a it was a it was a big big turning factor in my career. It, I I ran against my boss and lost, and that didn't go well for us.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It didn't for me and my wife. I was not 50 yet, so I could not retire. We were very, afraid that I was gonna get fired. There was a lot of retribution and and really punishment that that came along with that, which I knew there would be something. And I didn't lose my job, I was grateful for that part.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:But it was, it was a little different. It it made me want to leave law enforcement as soon as I was old enough to go and and, you know, pull that retirement and leave the state. And so in 2017, I decided to do that. And, we we picked a retirement date. We bought a house in another state.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And, before we could before we reached that date, the the deputies association convinced me that I needed to run again. I really didn't want to. We were happy about leaving, and we were we were feeling like we were gonna be very comfortable where we were going. And, there was the retribution from my boss again because the word got out that I was being asked. And so finally, I just my it was actually my wife's decision.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:She's like, well, we'll just stick around for six more months. If you if you win, great. If we lose, we're gonna retire anyway. And so I made that decision to run-in 2018, 2017 for the twenty eighteen election, and I won. So it's, it was it's been nothing but good since then.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:I won in 2022. I won reelection. There was a little bit of a change of a law in California, so I had I got two years added to my four year term. They wanted to take it away. They constitutionally, they couldn't.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:So my next election's 2028, which brought me to the governor's race. I saw a lot of people that were signing up to be the next governor to run for election. They were all democrats. There was about a dozen of them, and I knew all of them. And it was in in fighting Sacramento for public safety, I knew that the people that were signing up to be the next governor were the same people, the same faces that put us here in this position in California in the first place.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And we would we would not get better. We would either stay the same or get worse if any of those people won. And, eventually, with no one else getting in the race, California is tough to begin with. You you have to have a a name recognition. And I guess luckily for me or unluckily for me, had depending on how you wanna look at it, I had that name recognition.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:I had that face recognition because of, actions that I took during COVID in 2020 and, you know, the riots and everything else. And so I became a a known commodity here, particularly in Southern California. And then I I just decided to do it. At the time, I was we had a massive proposition that we were getting on the ballot to a a public safety referendum, basically, that was that was a little bite of the apple of a proposition back in 2014 that really harmed us. And so I was traveling the state as the face of law enforcement for this proposition, and that helped out too.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:So as I'm traveling, it's you know, the state is broken. You know, you're in a perfect position to do this. I will blame a little bit on, my friend from Nevada, my sheriff that won the governorship there, and, he proved that it was possible. And he proved that people respect sheriffs, and they respect the the crime fighting and the the the hold criminals accountable and even government accountable. So we're really modeling it after his run.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And
Betsy Smith:And that was a great run, and it was It was. Yeah. It was very successful.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:A great job there, and he's done a fantastic job as governor Lombardo. And I think people here see what happened in Nevada. They see they know now that that they're better off. And I think the residents of California are just we're we're so tired of being lied to, and we're so tired of the corruption in government. And I think that looking to a sheriff to go into Sacramento and make a difference, I think that's appealing to a lot of people.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And it's now showing in the polls. I mean, I'm leading in the polls a Republican in California, the first time that anyone can remember. And so it's things are going very well for us, and I think I think we're finally gonna turn California around.
Betsy Smith:Well, I gotta tell you. So so first and foremost, we and we talked about this before the show. God bless your wife. Right? Oh, yes.
Betsy Smith:Who really could have had you, you know, back up the house, take your pension check, and let's get out of here. And but, obviously, this was a team effort. Right? You and her who looked around and said, can't we just can't abandon this state that we love.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:That you know, that's exactly what it is. My parents have left. Her her entire family has has moved to Idaho. Mine moved to Nevada, and we we don't wanna leave. Our kids, unfortunately, are looking for a state where they can I came here for the California dream, and my kids are looking for their Tennessee dream, their Texas dream, their Idaho dream, their Florida dream?
Sheriff Chad Bianco:What whatever state that they're looking for that offers a better, you know, chance for them to raise their kids in better schools, and, it's cheaper there, the cost of living, and the job opportunities. And we don't wanna leave. My wife and I don't wanna leave. We love it here, and we wanna fight for it. We wanna make things better.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It we knew it was going to be difficult, but we're doing everything we can for for us and for our kids and for every millions of other kids in California that don't have the availability or the opportunity to achieve their California dream because it's too expensive here. So we're we're gonna make a difference, and she certainly is a trooper. It was the final decision to run was up to my wife and kids because we had some very running against my boss, we had some very, very brutal, ugly campaigns. The lies, the the attacks, not only on me. I'm okay.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:I mean, we've got thick skin as cops. But when it comes on the kids and when it comes on my wife, they don't have and they shouldn't have as thick skin as I do, and they shouldn't be involved in this. But the ugliness of my two campaigns before, they it it it was hard on my family. And so it had to be up to them. I left it up to them to say yes or no.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And all of them, they know what's coming. They the lies and the attacks and social media, especially now, is even worse. So they know what's coming. They're experiencing it a little bit right now, but they were they were absolutely yes. My three kids that are still here said, absolutely yes.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We don't wanna leave. And if you can fix it for us, we will we will retire here, and our kids will retire here. But if I don't win, I I think they're probably gonna flee. So we're gonna make sure I win.
Betsy Smith:So let's explain to people. Because a lot of people wonder. They don't really understand the difference between the sheriff and the and a police chief. Mhmm. A police chief's appointed by somebody, a mayor, a city council, whatever.
Betsy Smith:Sheriff, you're elected. You're chosen by the people. Right?
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And and The countywide election.
Betsy Smith:So because of that, you not only are you managing everything you talked about, you know, and and in a huge agency like yours, you know, you're you're managing sworn and civilian and crime and jail and, you know, all these other things. But then you also are responsible to those people who elected you. So Yeah. You've obviously, you've done that very successfully. Now as governor, you're gonna broaden this out from Riverside, California.
Betsy Smith:What do you think people are expecting of you that's going to be different than the way they're living now?
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Yeah. I I think as far as from me, I think that I'm a known commodity. I there is not anything out there. Everyone knows exactly who I am, what I stand for, what I believe in, and that truly, the the years of service, the thirty two years of sacrificial public service for to everyone else, I think that's a known commodity. And my my past is is kind of irrefutable.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It's all out there in black and white. There's nothing negative. Everything I would I've been very successful, thankfully, and very blessed being the leader of this organization. But the attacks still come. The lies still come.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:They, you know, they try and make you we have we all have bad deputies, bad cops. They all do stupid things. So they try and paint me as, you know, we we arrest one of our deputies for something stupid and fire them, but then they want the public to believe that it was me that did it or, you know, how corrupt we are or whatever the case may be. So but I think that the general public sees that. They know that those are just baseless attacks.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And so they're basically expecting from me exactly what I've done here in California. And so while I'm traveling this state and telling everyone what to expect from me, knowing what how and why government is broken, and then telling them that I'm going to fix it and how I'm going to fix it, they know that I'm also telling them the truth. I make it very clear to everybody that because of my position, this law enforcement position, and I throw it out there that you lie, you die. I mean, we have we have an obligation whether we're on duty or off duty to tell the truth. And if we don't, that's going to be used against us in in court.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We can't be cops if we're if we're proven dishonest. So I tell people all of the time. They people may be saying the same thing that I am. But if we're saying something different, you can be rest assured I'm the only one telling you the truth. And so that resonates with people.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And they they expect me to do what I'm telling them I'm going to do, and I'm showing them that it it's very, very doable and very, very easy with our regulatory process and and working with a what is probably going to be a super majority still. I hope not. I hope it's just a majority. But I I'm not afraid of that, and it's okay to work with other people to get things done. That's how government's supposed to work.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And I think they're what what I've shown that I can do to lead the Riverside County Sheriff's Office, people are expected that I'm going to do the same thing in Sacramento with a legislature that has been dysfunctional for decades. And I that I know that's going to be my role. That's going to be my job, and I'm certainly not gonna shy away from it. And I'm I I believe we're going to be very successful doing it.
Betsy Smith:There's some areas of the state, areas that everybody in the country knows about. Right? San Francisco, Los Angeles that have had some extraordinary crime problems, you know, since probably 2020. How are you what's your plans to address all of that as governor?
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Yeah. Crime is easy. We the the Democrat policies for the last twenty years have been very, very pro criminal. It's anti public safety. It's it's let everybody out of jail.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It's make things not crimes anymore. It's it's eliminate laws. It's it's take away the enhancements that put people in jail or prison for longer. It it really is a love affair with criminals that's been going on for for twenty years, and people are sick of it. People are absolutely tired of being victimized.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:They're tired of, particularly in the inner cities that that crime is just rampant. The and, you know, the the places where democrat strongholds, which are the San Francisco's and the Los Angeles's and things like that. Those those those urban cities are democrat strongholds, and the people are finally realizing that the democrats have done nothing to help them. They've only harmed them. And one of those things that we're we're seeing that it's changing is the the most recent statewide poll that came out, they not only did a statewide poll that found me leading, but they broke it down to just the Los Angeles area market, Los Angeles in particular.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And I'm leading in Los Angeles, which is predominantly Democrat. And it's not a secret here that I'm I'm a very fiscally conservative especially, but I'm a conservative Republican. And people are are at the point where even though they're Democrats, they're like, okay. We're done. We're I'll vote for the sheriff.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:I may not vote for a Republican. I'm voting for a sheriff because we need massive help here, not only for crime, but now we're learning of how corrupt our government is. And so people are saying, look. People need to go to jail. People need to be held accountable for victimize us or stealing our money or embezzling our money, whatever the case may be.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And so they're not looking to Chad Bianco to fix things, the Republican. It's we want a sheriff to come in and and and fix our state. And I think that is really the driver behind the success of my campaign, and, and that's okay because we knew that that was going to be a big part of it.
Betsy Smith:Well, that's the history of the sheriff, the reef of the shire, the guy who did what? Kept his eye on the taxes. You know? When you when you look at honestly, we should probably every governor in the country ought to be a sheriff because you know? And I I'm so glad you said that because we have become so siloed politically in this country that, unfortunately, we see people elected to positions, including sheriff, that probably shouldn't be the top law person in the state or, I'm sorry, in the county because of their politics.
Betsy Smith:We get so we're so siloed. So I'm glad that people are looking at you for you and your skills and your abilities and not whether you have an r or a d behind your name. I think that's huge.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Yeah. You're absolutely right. And I think the the Democrat party obviously has come against me. I mean, it there's it's a nonpartisan race. Sheriff is nonpartisan.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It's just who do you who do you believe is going to provide you the best public safety, and that's who that's why they voted for me. That's why they reelected me again. And it's when when I stood up in 2020 against the mandates that were closing down the state and the churches and all of those things, while at the same time they were releasing thousands tens of thousands of prisoners from state prison, then the governor said he wanted me to arrest people for not wearing masks. And I took a a very, open and loud stance that said, that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, and we are not going to do that in Riverside County. Our businesses are going to stay open.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We're going to go to church. We're not going to all get vaccines. We're I mean, all of those things that it's like, there we have a constitution, and people have rights. And that was that was me protecting my not only my agency, but my county, my community, But the Democrat party, because we are so siloed, the Democrat party took that as an attack on them. And so the Democrat party in California certainly has come, at me wanting me out of office.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And it's it's very unfortunate because I'm I I don't want anything to do with politics. I don't think I wish we didn't have d's and r's in our in our names when we ran, and I wish it was only based on integrity and character and leadership ability and and whether or not you really believed that I was going to make a difference because or resume what I'm doing now. Because when you look at the career politicians who have destroyed the state that are running for office right now against me, every single one of them are just nothing but career politicians. We're tired of all of that. And then you have me that represents, really, a public servant who sacrifices myself and my family every single day to make everybody's lives better.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:That's resonating with people. And it's it's we we should have more sheriffs running. And what happened in California, I will tell you, things are gonna backfire on the Democrat party because they they changed the law in California to try and get rid of me, particularly, by going over data saying that they could get more Democrats out to vote in a presidential election instead of a governor's election. And my sheriff election was on the governor's cycle since the beginning of our for a hundred and thirty years. And they changed it, and they put it on the presidential cycle so they could get more Democrats out to to basically unelect me.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Well, what that did is that gave me a free election. I am still the sheriff. I don't have to give up my spot to run for governor. I never would. And now it's just a free election, so it's allowing me to.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:There is and that is is is truly even after I win this election and do it for the next eight years, I'm hoping that there's going to be another sheriff, a very popular sheriff in the state that people are gonna look to and say that's the guy or that's the girl that we want to replace him because look how successful we've been with him here. And, so for all of you people looking across the country, get your sheriff so you're you're very, you know, powerful and and positive and and nonpolitical sheriffs to run for for these offices of governors in statewide elections because I think it's very, very doable.
Betsy Smith:I think you're starting a national movement. I I love this
Sheriff Chad Bianco:right here. I might. I will say I have a very good friend that's a sheriff back east. He's really in I'm not gonna I'm not gonna out him. He's he's in the central part of the country, and we have, we have national meetings.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And, I I'm I'm really good friends with him. We're really close. And he is actually considering running for governor just because he's seeing what's happening here, And he's a very popular, in his own right, in his community, and I I think he I think he may do it. So we'll see how that works.
Betsy Smith:Good. After the show, I need you to introduce me. Because I do think that this is really the the wave of the future because you you said such a powerful term, career politician. You say that to anybody in this country, and they roll their eyes. Right?
Betsy Smith:Because we're all tired of it. You know? R or d or whatever. You know? Career.
Betsy Smith:You it's it wasn't meant to be a career. People weren't meant to go to Washington DC and stay there for fifty years. They just weren't. That's not how it works. And Yeah.
Betsy Smith:So you, know, you make such a great point. So I you brought up mass, and I boy, I'll tell you. During COVID, you know, I really followed what you got were doing in Riverside County and and all that because it was very different than when I where I live here in Arizona and where I was a cop in Illinois. And but now now we've got masks on a whole another level. And in the state of California, the current governor tried to pass a law saying that law enforcement couldn't wear masks.
Betsy Smith:Now first and foremost, will you tell everybody, remind everybody why sometimes law enforcement officers, on any agency have to cover their face?
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Yeah. And and it's twofold in this particular situation that we're dealing with with ICE. It's twofold. So for us, we still have, maybe SWAT members or we have our dope cops that they would especially in an undercover role, they're, for the most part, out there undercover working drugs, and they still have to be the ones that serve the warrants, their search warrants and everything else, and their arrest warrants. It's not we don't get other people to go do their job for them.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:They're they're commingling the undercover and the arrest part. So when they go do those warrants, they wear masks. So no one knows that, hey. That's the guy that bought the drugs from me or sold me the drugs or whatever the case may be. He's been at all of our meetings, and now he's here arresting us.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:That's the cop. So we do protect our identity, and there there is good reason for that. So it's, for for us here, there's we do not want to be identified, especially in those undercover positions, and that is the role for masks. The the deputies out on the street, we don't want them, you know, wearing masks. I will say we're in this is this is just a tangent, but one of the arguments that we had here is we have there there are plenty of places in California that gets massive amount of snow.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And I have places here where my deputies work mountain areas where it is freezing cold at night, and they get snow, and they wear masks. And this law would would have prevented them from wearing beanies and masks to keep themselves warm because of this stupid political argument, and then which leads us into ICE. So ICE has the same role. I mean, they're out serving warrants and everything else, and they're they do other things too. It's not just ICE.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:They're they're FBI agents. They're, there are other federal officers that were doing this. But right when it started happening, these ICE agents were being doxxed, their families were being doxxed, and their kids were being harassed at school by even teachers because of what was going on. So they were they started wearing masks to protect their identities because the TV cameras and people with cell phones and then trying to find out who they were. This is a massive movement to try and find out who these people are to somehow intimidate them or bully them into not doing their job.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And so they all just started wearing masks to protect their identities and protect their families from this political, violence that we have going on on the far left, and it was legitimate. And so then the far left comes out and says you can't wear masks because we wanna know who you are so we can assault your family. That's basically what it is. And so it's number one, you can't tell the federal government what to do. You can't pass a law that says that an ICE agent can't wear masks.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:They don't care. You they don't fall under your jurisdiction. And so it's a it was all a publicity stunt. It was a political ploy. It's it's starting to affect us now.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It might because what happened that the ruling that came out was that because it exempted local law enforcement, they just said, no. It's federal law enforcement. It made it discriminatory. So now you're you're it's an unconstitutional law, and so it was rejected, and so it it's not good. The the person that put that tried to get that passed or that did get it passed has vowed that he's going to bring it back, and they're gonna include local law enforcement now.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It'll never go anywhere. It's it's a horrible idea. And then now that law enforcement's gonna have to start speaking out, our chiefs and our our sheriffs and everything else, the this our residents are gonna say enough is enough. Stop this stop this ridiculousness.
Betsy Smith:You know, when I was a when I was in high school and then when I was a rookie cop, you know, the California was the the the the mecca, if you will, for us as law enforcement. I boy, I was in college. I'm like, I'm gonna go to California and be a cop because they've got all the best everything, equipment, all that. And, honestly, in the last ten or twelve years, your law enforcement officers throughout the state have really been under attack. Mhmm.
Betsy Smith:And and are you I'm assuming you're hoping to restore that that amazing reputation that California law enforcement has enjoyed for for decades and decades. Real briefly, how are you gonna do that?
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Yeah. I think it's narrative. So the narrative that is out there now is that law enforcement is bad and they're not protecting us. The reality is it was bad laws that prevented me from protecting the community. That's really what we've been fighting against.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:But now we've been able to educate the public and say, look. This was not our fault. We want we're doing everything we can for you. It's those lawmakers in Sacramento that are making it difficult or impossible for you to be safe in your community. They they do have this love affair with criminals.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And so what has happened is we've had a very, public perception that has been developed because of a false narrative from the media and from our politicians. Well, now the public is learning that, hey. Our cops aren't bad. We respect our cops. We like our cops.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We know we have to have our cops. And now it's our politicians that we realized lied to us for the last fifteen years, and so we want that back. And I'm I'm definitely going to be that face of law enforcement. Yes. I'll be the governor, but I'm still gonna be the former sheriff in that face of law enforcement to say, we are not doing bad things.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Do we do things wrong sometimes? Maybe. And we fix it immediately so we never do that again. And that's that's what people wanna know. That they just wanna know that we're doing the best we possibly can.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:We're human. We may make errors, but we're still it's still an honorable profession that is out there doing fantastic work in all of our communities, and it's not what the media or the politicians, want to portray. So it's it's really that messaging. And I will I will be an unbelievably strong voice, not only for California, but for the rest of the country to make sure that the rest of the country knows this could happen to you if you follow our last twenty years. You're going to end up just like we were before we're making these changes.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:So don't follow what we were doing bad. Follow what we're doing good. Get rid of all of this anti law enforcement rhetoric, this defund the police or downsize. You know, they're doing everything they can to what what is happening now, what we're noticing now is even in college, their their their schools, their teachers, their administrators, and this agenda is painting law enforcement in such a bad light. We don't have kids anymore that wanna be cops.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:It used to be I wanna be a cop or a fireman or an astronaut or, you know, a nurse or, you know, all of those things that to help people. There's an inherent there's something inherent in every person that gives us joy and love to help someone else. And so these professions, they they particularly law enforcement, it takes a special kind of person that wants to help others and and make a difference in their community. But when the narrative is we're bad and we're racist and we're we're brutal and we're we're we violate people's rights and all of these things, kids are like, oh, maybe I don't wanna be a cop. I wanna do this.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:And so they went from the defund the police to take away their hiring pool, and we've gotta combat that now too. And I will be a very, very loud voice across the entire country to say, we we've gotta stop this nonsense and get back to just common sense and the reality of what life really is.
Betsy Smith:That is so well said, and that is a perfect place to end. Share Bianco, you have amazing social media. Where can people find your campaign, your social media, all that, learn more about you, and keep hearing this voice that really speaks such common sense and love for community, love for your state, love for this nation. Where can people find you?
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Yes. Thank you. It's biancoforgovernor.com. We have fantastic merch too. We've got cool merch that you can buy that goes directly to the campaign to help us win this thing.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:You can sign up to volunteer. You can sign up just for information. We'll send you information about the campaign on on a daily or weekly basis. And, most importantly, social media, follow me on all social media accounts, sheriff Chad Bianco. Like all of the pages.
Sheriff Chad Bianco:Share everything that I put out there. Some of it's very interesting. Some of it's a little humorous. We can we can make sure that we take advantage of the algorithms by liking and sharing and helping us save our beautiful state because I'm telling you, we need to save California so we can save the rest of the country because some of your states are following in the negative footsteps that California built several years ago, and you guys are experiencing it now. So we need to save California so we can save our country.
Betsy Smith:Alright. Sheriff, thanks so much. Thanks for spending time with us today. And if you'd like more information about the National Police Association, you can visit us at nationalpolice.org.
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