David Gee (sheriff)

David Gee is the former sheriff of Hillsborough County, Florida. He was sheriff from 2004 until his retirement on September 30, 2017, having worked in the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office for more than twenty years prior to his election.^[1]

Gee's tenure was a successful one: the crime rate in the county has fallen in each of the last nine years.^[2] He has been praised for his office's "enlightened approach to homelessness",^[3] but criticized for "traditional criminalization tactics for low-level offenses such as misdemeanor marijuana possession".^[4]

Gee is a graduate of the University of Tampa.^[1] He is a Republican.^[5]

References

1. "Sheriff David Gee". Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
2. "Crime rate in unincorporated Hillsborough County down 3 percent". The Tampa Tribune. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
3. "Helping Hillsborough's homeless". The Tampa Tribune. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
4. "Editorial: The Hillsborough sheriff's outdated views on marijuana arrests". Tampa Bay Times. 6 April 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
5. Contorno, Steve; McManus, Tracey (24 June 2016). "Unopposed candidates across Tampa Bay automatically win their races". Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 5 December 2016.