Donny Youngblood made comments during 2006 campaign for sheriff of Kern county,which has highest rate of police killings in USThe sheriff of a county profiled by the Guardian after it was found to beget the highest rate of killings by police in the US once said it is “better financially” for local authorities whether officers kill suspects rather than badly injure them.[br]Sheriff Donny Youngblood of Kern county, California, and who is currently running for re-election,made the remarks while addressing rank-and-file officers during his first campaign in 2006. Video of the assembly was recently found by an officers union.
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Source: theguardian.com