{"id":19723,"date":"2012-07-03T11:11:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/59.6796"},"modified":"2012-07-03T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T16:11:48","slug":"the-late-andy-griffith-sheriff-andy-taylor-community-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2012\/07\/03\/the-late-andy-griffith-sheriff-andy-taylor-community-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"THE LATE ANDY GRIFFITH; SHERIFF ANDY TAYLOR & COMMUNITY POLICING"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nSheriff Andy Taylor patrolled fictional Mayberry, North Carolina usually unarmed and kept the peace despite a bumbling deputy. Growing up in Savannah, GA in the 70s and 80s it was nice to see a Southern place where police were actually polite.
\nThat was my initial reaction upon reading about Andy Griffith’s death.
\nLong before the Religious Right emerged, the good Sheriff dispensed justice leavened with biblical insight and championed being a good neighbor- minus sermonizing. No mater your faith or lack thereof, the moral message was clear.
\nSoutherners could relate to his cast of characters: Aunt Bee ( pronounced ” Ant ” Bee ); Opie; Goober and the unforgettable Gomer Pyle. Americans from elsewhere got a peek at what life was like far away from big cities.
\nThese characters and their town offered respite from the eras stressful; even horrific headlines.
\nHis Sheriff Taylor character pioneered community policing decades before the term was coined. That’s an invaluable part of his legacy. He was truly a community member working with other members to resolve problems through cooperation and appeals to conscience.
\nWhen he had to sue force it was infrequently and decisively.
\nThat’s what Andy Griffith and his masterpiece Sheriff Andy Taylor meant to me for a lifetime- a model of cooperation and restraint in law enforcement and the judiciary ( Don’t forget, Andy was also the local Justice of The Peace lol )..
\nI hope his role as a community policing prototype is recognized. What was offered as entertainment instead became a model for real world public engagement.
\nWhen Sheriff Taylor had to wear his side arm you knew things were very, very serious.
\n“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. ” -Matthew 5:9
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