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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers the keynote address at 2019 National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) in Orlando, FL. Watch Pompeo's interview on 'Fox & Friends' here: https://youtu.be/Es6oi3KCAzs #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel…

Here are some of the things Wright and Baxley had to say: School officers Baxley and Wright differed on whether the Sheriff’s Office should place deputies in the schools to serve as school resource officers. Not all the Cumberland County schools have them, but a recent grant of nearly $500,000 should soon allow additional ones to be hired. Baxley said. Instead of having the Sheriff’s Office hiring additional deputies specifically for the schools, Baxley said, the school system should use its own money to hire off-duty police officers and sheriff’s deputies as school resource officers. “You have to hire an officer that wants to work in the schools,” he said. “You don’t need officers just part-time going to work in the schools, because if you put part-time officers in schools, they don’t know the students. This leads to concerns that deputies risk of losing their jobs if they don’t campaign for the sheriff or otherwise support him politically. “I think politics needs to be taken out of the Sheriff’s Office,” Baxley said. “I’d never ask an officer to do anything that I wouldn’t do.” Diversity Baxley and Wright both said the Sheriff’s Office needs racial and cultural sensitivity training, as well as diversity in the department’s ranks, as it works in a diverse community such as Cumberland County. “Just treat everybody fairly, and just do the right thing,” Baxley said.