Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It is the Uncle Henry Show here on news Radio
seven ten WNTM. Thank you so much for listening to
the Uncle Henry Show. I appreciate that bear bear much. Now,
in this hour of Uncle Henry Show, I'm going to
interview for the first time. I've never met this guy
for the first time. I'm interviewing the sheriff of Mobile County.

(00:39):
Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birch Sheriff Burch, thank you for
coming in on the Uncle Henry Show.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, it's a pleasure to finally be part of it.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, and you're someone this is the first time we've met,
so I've got a lot of first time meeting you
time questions. So I'm going to go over and I
know you the listener, You're probably interested in your decorations
and stuff like that. We'll get to that later, but
this is our first conversation. So, Sheriff, I'm really curious
to know when did you get involved in law enforcement?

(01:08):
What led you to law enforcement?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Well, you know, it's really simple. There has been a
birch On Mobile Police Department since the city has existed.
So at seventeen, I signed up and listed to the
Navy because at the time, Mobile would not hire you
two You're twenty three years old. So I signed up
for five years knowing what my plan was, and did
my five years. Got out of the Navy, Mobile had

(01:30):
a hiring freeze, so I went to Montgomery for just
under two years when Mobile started hiring again. Started my
career here in Mobile in nineteen ninety and stayed there
nine years and been with a sheriff's office since. So
I was born and raised in Mobile.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
So when you designed to run for sheriff, what did
you want to get accomplished? What were your main goals
as sheriff.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
I've always been very, very proactive through my career. I've
I've had the pleasure of working every single rank within
the Sheriff's office prior to being elected. So I was
on the street, I worked drugs, I worked homicide, and
I just think a little differently proactive perspective on trying
to stop a lot of crime, or or I should say,

(02:16):
prevent a lot of crime, because I do think most crimes,
your thefts, your shootings, your robberies, you know, even domestics
center around drug use, and you know, and I worked
that for a long time, and so I just want
to be able to structure things in a way that
I thought would address the problem. And since I've been

(02:38):
in office, I think we've done so really well.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
So now you've just told me you have through your career,
through what you've observed, so many crimes stem from drug use.
Drug abuse.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Let me think about it. You know, your your thefts,
your residential and commercial burglaries, they're all people stealing to
try to get money for drugs.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
And so you're you started in nineteen ninety. Since nineteen ninety,
the entire country has been about relaxing our attitudes toward
drug use. Have you seen a corresponding blossoming of certain
crimes because of those changing attitudes in the.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Time, Absolutely, and not only outlying crimes, but the crime
itself of illegal drug use. I mean, there are people
who think it should be legal, and some states have
moved in that direction. Yeah, the public has heard me
say before. You can't go one block in mobile without smelling,

(03:38):
you know, people smoking marijuana next to you in the
car or going into a store. And again, it's just
it's not just the relaxing of the mindset of crime,
but it's just a stepping stone. Okay, you know it's
just marijuana. Well that's fine, but it's still against the law, right,
and that's that's the stance I take on it. When

(03:58):
the law changes, you know, we changed.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
So So, all those years working every rank in the
Sheriff's department and then becoming sheriff, did anything surprise you
once you became sheriff? I'm sure you thought you knew
pretty much all you needed to know. Did anything surprise
you when became when you became sheriff? Did you learn
anything new?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I have? You know, I've learned that it wasn't quite
what I thought it was going to be. You know,
as I as I rose through the ranks, once I
became captain and then chief deputy, I was not able
to really get out on the street because I've been
a street caught my entire career, and I thought, okay, well,
when I'm the sheriff, nobody can tell me I can't

(04:39):
get out on the street, right my schedule dictates otherwise. So,
you know a lot of meetings involved, you know, with
the with the public, with different organizations, with different community leaders.
And I'm not a meeting kind of person, you know,
I enjoy being out and talking with people. So I
thought I'd get to do a lot more of that
than what I've been able to do.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
But there's a little urge to get out and.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Patrol, absolutely, and I still do. There'll be days if
I know I've got certain operations going on, I'll just
make sure my schedule's clear so I can get out
and on the street with the guys.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Didn't Jack Tillman do that? Wouldn't he out every now
and again? Again, he got criticized for it too, did
it he did?

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah? And he was actually he used to ride with
me periodically.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
So okay, well, are you thinking about running again?

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Oh? I'm definitely running again.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Okay, So now that you've been there for a while,
do you have new goals, new things you want to
try to accomplish next time?

Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know, my primary goals when I ran the first
time was to reduce violt crime and very progressive or
proactively and go after the drug traffickers. And we've done
that very well and I plan on ramping that up.
You know, we've been real successful in operations in Prichard

(05:57):
addressing gang activity there, and you know a lot of
people like, well, why you focused on Pritcher Will you know,
there are a lot of good people in Pritcher, but
there are a lot of criminals there too, and that's
where a lot of our gangs are kind of focused
in that area. And what happens in Pritchard don't just
stay in Pritcher. They you know, commit crimes throughout the county.
And so we've been really really successful addressing that issue

(06:21):
and we will continue to do so. A lot of
things that have changed, you know, over the last few
years is the technology used to address crime. And you know,
there are certain areas that we go and conduct operations
in and that's all data driven. You know. We'll look
and see where there are crime problems, you know, regard

(06:43):
whether it's a series of autoburglaries or residential burglaries or shootings,
you know, and we will move our efforts there. One
of the first things I did was create a Special
Operations Division, and that's about forty two deputies that are
one hundred cent proactive. They don't answer calls, respond to

(07:06):
you know, alarms or anything like that. So I can
deploy them anywhere within the county that that there's an
issue and address it pretty quickly.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
How does it work with with jurisdictions and other departments.
Because you mentioned Pritchard they have their own police department. Uh,
several municipalities do. Do you have jurisdiction to go anywhere
in the county that you feel like you need to
go to to to solve a crime?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
I do, yeah, and we do quite often. You know,
a lot of these smaller jurisdictions, you know, or municipalities,
we work their homicides and shootings and stuff, you know,
at their request, and you know, depending on the jurisdiction,
you know, we usually will touch base with the chief

(07:50):
you know as we do those operations. We don't do
that with Pritcher. And because it's you know, to say
they have a police department.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Is you know, very loosely used ter Okay, all right,
Well they have new leadership in Pritchard. Now, yes, they
have a new mayor. Have you talked to her.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I actually started talking with her probably eight or nine
months ago, and you know, she asked for my perspective
on the department, and she has some ideas that I think,
you know, we'll move Pritchard in a good direction. Whether
she's able to do that, you know, because she's already
meeting a lot of resistance from the current administration. And

(08:30):
you know, I hope that we can work closely together
and turn Pritchard around. I mean, that would be the
ultimate goal.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
All right, Sheriff Birch. We got to take a quick
time out for traffic, weather and words from our sponsors,
and then back with more of Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birch.
When the Uncle Henry Show continues here on News Radio
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(09:08):
news Radio seven ten WNTM, we have news headlines coming
up in ten minutes. Before we get to those news headlines,
let's continue our conversation here with Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birch.
So many people, when they think of public safety, they
think about issues in inner cities. What is crime like

(09:31):
out of the inner city? We still have problems? I mean,
are there are there people still making myth in the
woods in North Mobile County?

Speaker 2 (09:39):
We haven't encountered that type myth activity in a long time,
because you know, it was dangerous. But now myth and
for lack of a better term, commercial myth that you
can import from Mexico is so cheap that it's cheaper
to buy it than it is to try to make it.
And then they made sudafed really difficult to get and

(10:00):
that was a main ingredient for the home labs. And
you know, now you got to show you driver's license.
You only get you know, X amount of boxes per month.
And so that's I hadn't seen that in a long
long time, which is a good thing.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
So when I when I hear from doctors, for example,
I've heard from doctors saying that they'll they'll see people
that are obviously on math coming into urgent cares and
things in different parts of the county. They're getting foreign math.
They're on foreign math.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
They are Yeah, yeah, I can't tell you. In the
last probably four or five years, I don't remember us
having to respond to a lab you know, in the
home or you know, out in the woods.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
So you just mentioned a few moments ago about ramping
up even more anti drug trafficking. How do you do that?
Do we have a lot of drugs moving through simply
because of the interstate we do?

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I mean, we have the major arteries going north and
south and east and west. You know, in Atlanta is
one of the main drug hubs for the Southeast and
so have a very proactive interstate and addiction team that's
very successful, and you know they're out there every day,
you know, different hours of the day. And again I've

(11:10):
just really, really, you can target a lot of the
drug trafficking, the other crimes will fall in place.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
I've heard other law enforcement professionals through the years talk
about how it's important to enforce even the laws that
a lot of people think are minor, even something down
to jaywalking, which sounds silly, but they say the psychology
of it is that if you let people know that
they can't break that law, that will translate up to
the even more important crimes.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah. I mean, that's a tried and true philosophy. If
you let the small things slide, then then they'll let
the medium things slide, and then the big thing slide.
So if you just say, hey, this is the law
and we're going to enforce it, regardless of how silly
people think it is. Possession of marijuana misdemeanor possessional marijuana
is that prime example. There are arguments about that constantly,

(12:00):
and again I respect people's personal opinions, but right now
it's against the law. And you know, I've shared this before.
I don't mind sharing again. There are arguments that it's
a gateway drug. There are arguments is not. I've got
a brother who stays in and out of prison, who
was a just an all star football quarterback, and he
wouldn't leave marijuana alone. That was his drug of choice

(12:23):
for a long time, and that evolved into meth in
the cocaine and cost him a football career. Okay, so
I've seen it firsthand.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I know you've you observed the Mobile mayor's race, and
there was talk for months about public safety, and there's
been talk for years about what to do about the
violence that we see in the city of Mobile and
other cities the same size and bigger around the country.
When you're sitting back and listening to all these conversations,
do you hear any good ideas? Are there? Are there

(12:54):
any good ideas coming up about what to do to
stomp some of this violence?

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Well? I heard a little bit on all sides during
during that campaign, and you know, truthfully, there's a lot
of talk about this program, that program. You know, prevention
is good to a degree, but nothing beats proactive law
enforcement activity. And and again i've you know, I won't

(13:23):
name which municipality, but you know, I routine they will
see a marked unit sitting at a traffic light behind
a vehicle with three or four people in it. You
can smell the weed. They have no tag or paper tagging,
you know, common sensor taste stop that car and yeah,
but they just ride by. And it's really until we
get back to being proactive and making those stops and

(13:47):
addressing the small things because typically where you find drugs,
you're gonna find illegal weapons to and so that that
until we get back to that. You know, you can
throw any program, you won't add it. And it's just
you know, program isn't going to prevent people from committing.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Crime, Sheriff, when you do arrest someone for for something
like that, that you catch them with drugs and illegal
guns and they go into the courts, is that process
working the way you would like it to work. Are
are people going to jail for the right amount of time?

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Not always? But but I have seen a little shift
in that as well. And and let me say this too,
especially when it involves young people. I think everybody deserves
a second chance, right, And so you know the idea
behind that is, you know, if you can catch them early,
get them on probation, maybe straighten them out then not
encounter them again. But realistically, you know, if we if

(14:42):
they get if the judges gave everybody, you know, let's
just say sixty days ninety days a year in jail,
we'd have to build another two of three jails, right
and because we're we're significantly overcrowded that as it is,
and you know, we're built for eleven and eighty seven inmates.
We had a sixteen hundred and forty one this morning,

(15:03):
but most of those are violent offenders and you know,
need to be in jail. And that's and it's it's unfortunate,
you know that we have to look at expanding the capacity,
but it's very necessary.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
So you've been in law enforcement since nineteen ninety. Are
criminals different now?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
They are in a lot of different ways. Certainly with technology,
we see a lot of cyber crimes, scams, you know,
you know, but more so young people who are willing
to pull a trigger on a gun, not caring where
those bullets go, and not having any skills to have

(15:42):
a conversation or de escalate, you know, an argument. They
go to a gun and you know, it's you know,
these things, these shootings you saw in Mississippi, I guaranteed
when they get down to the bottom of that, and
the one in Montgomery, you know it's going to be
because somebody had a beef with somebody else that's trying
to settle in an argument and they just quickly go
to a gun. And I've never seen anything like it

(16:02):
in my career.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
You just talked about the people that are committing these
crimes not having this skill to solve a dispute without
shooting each other. What about communicating with law enforcement? The
actual communication between law enforcement and someone who is a
suspect that might have a gun. I mean, is it
harder now for a law enforcement person to try and

(16:25):
de escalate things?

Speaker 2 (16:26):
It is, And most of the time, by the time
law enforcements involved, something's already occurred. And no one. Another
program that started early on and with the help of
the school system and the County Commission, is we started
the school Resource Deputy program, you know, and I really
hope to grow that. You know through the years. We

(16:47):
have twelve deputies that are assigned to the twelve high
schools in Mobile County, and you know, there are ninety
public schools within the county, which you know, different municipalities
and all that. So those deputies will go go to
the high schools and then rotate through the feeder schools
for that high school throughout the day. And not only
is that to protect you know, the children in faculty

(17:09):
at schools, but it's also to build a relationship with
kids at a very early age and build a positive
relationship with law enforcement. And we have had several instances
where elementary middle school kids have come to those deputies,
you know, with a problem they were dealing with and
we were able to address it before anything happened. And

(17:29):
so that's the ultimate goal of that. It's working. I
just really want to expand it and hopes to have
law enforcement in every single school within the county you
in the future.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
We're talking with Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burcham. Will continue
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(19:42):
A few years ago, Sheriff, we had big protests in
lots of big cities around the country, Black Lives Matter,
stuff like that, after the George Floyd incident and things
got difficult, it seemed for a lot of people in
law enforcement. And I was just wondering, since all of
that happened in our country and there was all of
that outburst against law enforcement, have you had trouble recruiting

(20:06):
deputies to the Mobile County Sheriff's Department.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
No, Actually, we're almost that capacity. So you know, there
was a time where we were, you know, five six,
you know, ten down, and you know that those were
mostly due to retirements. But no, we're almost that capacity
on the enforcement side. Now, the corrections officer side, we're
down about forty. Because that's a tough job.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
It is.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
You're basically in jail with bad guys all day.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
So so what do you do You ever have young
people come up to you that are interested in law enforcement?
What do you tell them?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
We do? Actually, you know, I encounter that frequently and
so I will give them my cell number. You know,
just hey, check with your parents and you know, y'all
come take a tour, you know, show you what it's about.
We have different like a Citizen's academy that's free that
the parents can go through. Eighteen and up can attend,

(21:06):
but we try to show them what it's about. We've
got a wonderful HR department, and of course Lori Miles,
my public relations director, has a bunch of material that
we will hand out to people who are interested. But
we actually we have several young people who I met
through those type situations who are now employees. I started

(21:30):
a cadet program where you can be employed with Shriff's
office at eighteen and you rotate through the different patrol,
criminal investigations, the jail, crime scene, and by the time
you go to the academy at twenty one, you're already
familiar with the department how it works, so then you
can hit the street a lot faster and be knowledgeable

(21:50):
back the jobs. That's been real successful. I hope to
grow that as well. Had some additional six positions UH
that I was asking for in this year's budget that
I was not afforded, but the UH I think that
that will change down the road as well.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
So UH, well, it's it sounds like the Sheriff's department.
It just sounds to me that the Sheriff's department is
doing better than some police departments on the Gulf Coast.
Without singling anybody out, yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Mean I would say so. We just have made a
real effort to be proactive with engaging in young with
young people and and it has paid off. And you know,
we are you know, share the Sheriff's office being an
elected position. I mean, I work for the people, so

(22:43):
you know, I do need to be out and I
do I like to hear, uh what the needs are,
you know, from each community. You know what I've learned,
you know in the time that I've been the sheriff
is the what people need on the north side of
the county is much different than what people need on
the south side of the county. And you know, you
have to be able to listen. And a lot of

(23:06):
times it's criticism, you know, sometimes warranted, sometimes not. It's
most times just a lack of understanding of how things
really work. And but we're always willing to listen and
make changes when when when we're able.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
To what kind of complaints I'm guessing a top complaint
would be I want to see a sheriff's deputy and
I don't see the sheriff's deputy on my road. Is
that like a time coming?

Speaker 2 (23:31):
That is the top?

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Okay, where are you? I want to see it, you know.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
And what I explained to them is, you know, prior
to taking office, the department patrol was structured in a
very different way, where you a lot of areas you're
looking at forty five minutes to an hour response time.
So I reduced the areas of responsibility significantly. Have response

(23:55):
time now is about ten to fifteen minutes. And you know,
because you're out in the county, it's not like you're
you know, have city blocks. That and I also did
that so the community and the business owners would get
to know their deputies in their area and vice versa.
That deputy would know, Okay, well that car don't look
like it. It don't belong here. I don't see that
car every day. So that's worked really well. And but

(24:18):
I do explain to them that, you know, we can't
be everywhere. I don't have you know, a thousand deputies
to concentrate, you know, throughout the county. They have a
pretty large area that they're still responsible for.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
Now you've got something on your website where we can
if we want to see crime data, we can look
at it ourselves as citizens.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Right right, It's called my neighborhood and that's I say,
it's real time. It's there's about maybe a one minute lag.
You know, obviously the data has to be wind so
you can put geofence around your address, or you can
just look at the whole entire county and see where
crime is occurring. And what's real popular is you know,

(24:59):
to put it, you know, a geo fence around your
house or you know, however, why do you want to
make that around If you have you know, adult children
that are living elsewhere, you want to do the same
for them. I mean, it tells you what crime is
going on, and tells you where sex offenders are living.
You know, within that you know, whatever parameter you set.
So it's as popular and but it's also not used

(25:21):
as much as you know, I would.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Like for it to be used well, And it may
be just that people aren't aware of it. I back
in the day, people used to love to sit and
listen to scanners. Right, this is kind of the same thing,
isn't it.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
It is. But yeah, and you know because my my,
my grandparents and my dad always whatever the newest scanner
that came out. You know, he was at radio shack
behind it.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
So they would like this because it's you say, it's
it's real time data, so they can see. They may
not hear, but they're going to see what's going.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
On, correct, And and it's you know, it tells you.
It's got a little icon to tell you the different crimes,
whether it's a burglary, uh, you know, robbery, you know,
theft property, you know of violent crime, whatever. It will
break it all.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Down, all right, Sheriff Birch, We are going to take
a time out and then come back with our remaining
moments of the interview Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birds. Oh. Uh,
I haven't asked about the Halloween decorations. Jet. I know
you've already talked about it on other radio stations, but
we'll get to that in the next segment of the show. Uh,
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The Uncle Henry Show continues here on news Radio seven
ten WNTM. Have news headlines coming up. In ten minutes.
Before we get to the news headlines, we're going to
continue this conversation with Mobile County Sheriff Paul Birch. First
time I've had Sheriff Birch in studio, first time I've

(27:25):
had a chance to meet Paul Birch. Want to remind
you the listener that if you if you've got questions
about the Sheriff's department yourself, there's a website mobileso dot com.
Mobile Sheriff's website is mobileso dot com. Lots and lots
of questions are answered. Have the website lots of resources

(27:47):
there for you. So again, any any further questions mobileso
dot com. Right, well, Sheriff, I do have to ask
about the Halloween decorations because your your yard has made
and I guess international news with the the ice Halloween decorations.
What is that? What has that been like? Although a
lot of phone calls.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
A lot of phone calls, you know, a lot of yeah,
frustration to a degree. You know, it's almost as if
you know people, some people are looking for a reason
to be mad, and but you know, overall there's been
positive responses, you know. And if I could just briefly

(28:31):
kind of go through, you know, number one, my wife
put them up. And my wife is Cuban and her
parents migrated from Cuba in nineteen fifty nine. Wow, And
so they came here the right way. You know, they
went through the entire process and uh so, and she

(28:52):
was an FBI agent, you know that's important to say too.
But you know that was she does these things with
these skeletons every year, and she does different themes during Christmas,
and she's big into decorating with different animatronics and all that.
So I came home one day they were up there.
I thought it was funny and creative and it certainly

(29:14):
was not put up there to offend anyone. And with her,
you know, heritage, you know that that's up to her
to do. But you know, one thing I've said a lot,
and I'll say it on this show too, because I
got asked a lot, well, you know, did you not
tell your wife that wasn't a good idea? I said, Well,
my perspective is any man who says they tell their

(29:35):
wife what they can and can't do is either lying
or they're not going to be married long. So yeah,
that's you know, my wife has her own mind, and
you know that's what she chose to do, and you
know that's that's her business.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Now your neighbors, So your neighbors live next to her
to a sheriff who married an FBI agent. So are
your neighbors all on their best behavior all time?

Speaker 2 (30:00):
They know they're well protected?

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Right, Well, uh, the uh speaking of ice, Uh, the
Sheriff's Department works with ICE. We do they tell you
when they're when they're going to be around, and how
does that work.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Well, we're actually embedded with Homeland Security, our narcotics unit,
and so we work with department Homeland Security every day
and so when they're out on operations, you know, we're
we're out there with them. Yeah. And that was even
before the big immigration thing, you know movement. We were
out there with them doing drug operations and so yes,

(30:39):
we are very you know proactive in assisting them. And
now with this new two two eighty seven g program,
you know we're able to get reimbursement for overtime and
fuel costs for transportation where previously, before that agreement became available,
you know, we were doing it, you know, at our
own cost. And because that that's again how I started

(31:00):
this show out as I believe in forcing the law.
You know, that's you know, that's my primary duty.

Speaker 1 (31:07):
All right, Well, Sheriff, is there anything you want to
tell people? We're almost out of time of here. Is
there anything you want to let people know?

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Well, I say this often. I'm easy to reach. I've
always answered my phone. I've had the same phone number
for over twenty years. And if you have a problem,
reach out and let's sit down and talk about it.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Very good, Sheriff Burch, thank you for coming in.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Thank you. Yeah, enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
And as I mentioned just a few minutes ago, if
you want to find out more about anything we talked about,
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