If the following news story about the New Port Richey Mayor and his wife don't sum up Pasco County, I'm not sure what does. It seems EVERYONE gets arrested at some point for domestic battery. Pasco County is the land of domestic violence. Either that, or the deputies just love arresting people for domestic battery because it's easy. 9 out of 10 times both the victim and the defendant are drunk, so their version of events is almost never credible.
Here's a link to the actual calls being made by the mayor from 10 Connects. The cops say he and his wife were drunk. He doesn't sound drunk in the tapes. McPherson and his wife were having drinks at the only nice bar in Pasco (and by nice I mean one step above Chili's). All accounts differ but apparently they got into some type of argument, and whether someone called the police or the police were already there (which is probably the case), a deputy for the Pasco Sheriff's office ended up arresting McPherson's wife.
What I find interesting about the story is that I hear stories every day about PCSO and the way they escalate situations. What starts with a drunk guy making a snide comment to a deputy ends with 15 deputies and the arrest of a woman. How does this happen?
Perhaps the reason the Sheriff keeps asking for more money for more deputies is because he allows 15 deputies to respond to these events which are NOT CRIMES.
