Bexar County seeing an increase in violent crimes, Sheriff Salazar says

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The region is besides targeting quality trafficking, narcotics, organized transgression and unmanned borderline checkpoints

Over the past 48 hours, the metropolis of San Antonio has seen astatine slightest 5 confirmed shootings and aggregate stabbings.

Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar joined Leading SA on Sunday to sermon transgression trends and the interaction of caller law transportation laws.

“We are seeing an summation successful convulsive crimes. And, you know, that was wherefore I fought truthful hard with commissioners tribunal done the fund process to bent connected to each position.... Twelve of my positions were connected the chopping artifact and we conscionable fought it. And thankfully, we won that battle,” Sheriff Salazar said.

On apical of convulsive crimes, Salazar said the sheriff’s bureau is targeting circumstantial offenses.

“Human trafficking is inactive connected the foreground, on with amerciable narcotics, organized crime. You know, we’ve got a precise big, organized crime, anti-organized transgression effort going. We’ve got to get our pack portion that’s out, up and running. And we’ve got a covert operations radical that’s retired targeting these organizations that nett disconnected of each these things,” Sheriff Salazar said.

Right now, a large contented BCSO is trying to code is the unmanned borderline checkpoints, Salazar said.

“Border Patrol checkpoints that don’t person anybody astatine them. My knowing is that they’ve sent each disposable Border Patrol agents down to the borderline to process folks, and it’s leaving those checkpoints unmanned. The occupation determination is that the dope dealers cognize it too, the smugglers cognize it too. And truthful they’re conscionable moving unchecked up into the United States. And truthful we’re moving everybody arsenic hard arsenic we can. And we fto our organized transgression radical cognize we’ve got cause interdiction deputies that are retired connected the highways arsenic we speak. We’re trying to halt this travel of amerciable substances making it into our country,” Sheriff Salazar said.

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You tin ticker the afloat Leading SA interrogation with Sheriff Salazar successful the video subordinate above.

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