Jim DeWees

Border Patrol Agent Rood looks out to a gap in the two border walls separating Mexico and the United States in San Diego in June. (Gregory Bull/AP)

A year later, the southern border looks dramatically different | GUEST COMMENTARY

October 12, 2025 at 1:11 p.m.

Under the Trump administration, the southern border today looks completely different than it did a year ago, writes Carroll County Sheriff Jim DeWees following a trip to the border.

Pigeons fly over the intersection of Main Street, Md. 27 and the Maryland Midland Railwail in downtown Westminster May 14.

DeWees and Shoemaker: Quality of life concerns surround proposed homeless center | COMMENTARY

February 10, 2025 at 11:56 a.m.

Access Carroll's plans for homeless respite center in downtown Westminster raise concerns about public safety, writes Sheriff Jim DeWees and State's Attorney Haven Shoemaker.

Jim DeWees: Here’s why a new sheriff’s office headquarters is needed | COMMENTARY

July 22, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The new sheriff’s office headquarters in Westminster will be operations-centric and concentrate on taking care of patrol deputies, criminal investigators and forensic unit personnel so they have a top-of-the-line facility to...

DeWees: Pay must improve to retain the quality law, corrections enforcement who keep Carroll safe | COMMENTARY

April 9, 2021 at 12:03 p.m.

Recruiting, hiring, and retaining quality trained personnel in any profession during these times is difficult at best; and, in law enforcement and corrections, it has become the single most pressing...

Sheriff DeWees: Law enforcement exists to serve; national media should remember that

June 29, 2019 at 12:33 p.m.

Over the past two weeks several police officers have been ambushed, assaulted and some killed throughout the country. Law enforcement has seen an unusual uptick in assaults and deaths. Confrontations...

James DeWees hugs his mother Joan after being sworn in as Carroll County Sheriff during a ceremony at Carroll Community College, in Westminster.

Sheriff DeWees: If you see something, say something

June 30, 2019 at 2:37 p.m.

With the recent events in San Bernardino, California, Paris and other cities throughout the world, I felt compelled, as your elected sheriff, to remind readers to be vigilant and to...

Jim DeWees: Stopping crime easy as locking your car doors

June 28, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

Do you want to know how not to be a victim of the most prevalent crime in Carroll County? It's as easy as locking your car doors. Yup, if every...

Jim DeWees: New leadership for Sheriff’s Office

July 1, 2019 at 2:02 a.m.

After the unfortunate mishandling of several high profile cases, public battles between the sheriff and state's attorney's office, the criminal indictment of a sheriff's office executive, and subsequent embarrassing lawsuits,...

Letter: Gun rights should be protected

June 28, 2019 at 10:01 p.m.

Since the age of 21, while serving as both a sheriff's deputy and state trooper, I have carried a firearm.My father was a combat veteran of the Vietnam War. My...

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