How many times do stories like this have to happen before we can officially rid ourselves of our incompetent Erie County Sheriff?

Kevin Allen, the 27-year-old inmate released from the Erie County Holding Center last week by mistake, is now back in the custody of the Erie County Sheriff’s Department.

Allen turned himself in to authorities Thursday afternoon accompanied by the Reverand Darius Pridgen of True Bethel Baptist Church.

In our old archives which are unavailable at the moment, I had a list of 12 or 13 different stories similar to the ones below that show how inept this guy is at keeping this community safe.  An easy web search of the past two years brought up a plethora of ineptness from the Erie County Sheriff’s Department since this tool took office.

Since his election in 2005:

• Erie County jail overcrowded and unsafe, report says
• Remember Ralph “Bucky” Phillips?
• They almost screwed up the Joan Diver Case when they called off the search off prematurely
• 4 or 5 prisoners have either escaped or been set free due to “clerical errors”
• Politics as usual when it comes to excessive overtime practices
• Patronage runs deep as he got caught hiring his nephew before hiring laid off employees
• Gave DeLacy Ford ( who illegally hosted campaign fundraiser’s for him) a huge Crown vic contract even though the ECFSA mandated them to buy Chevrolet Impalas

The list goes on and on…