Backing the Blue. Without apology.
The Challenge
For two decades, anti-police politicians in Washington and in our biggest cities have tried to make law enforcement a profession nobody wants. Florida pushed back — and Pasco County led that pushback. We hired veterans. We bought our deputies the best equipment. We told them they had our support, not just our supervision.
But the work isn't done. Fentanyl is killing more Floridians every year than any traffic accident. Human traffickers are running children up and down the I-75 and I-275 corridors. And law enforcement agencies across the state are struggling to recruit and retain the people we need to do the job.
This isn't an abstract debate for me. It's the work I have done every day for fifteen years.
What Chris will fight for
Pay, training, and retention for Florida law enforcement.
Florida's deputies, troopers, and officers deserve to be the best-equipped and best-paid in the Southeast. Period.
Tougher penalties for fentanyl trafficking.
Treat fentanyl dealers like the killers they are. Mandatory minimums for trafficking quantities. No early release for repeat offenders.
A coordinated counter-UAS authority for Florida.
Drones are being used to smuggle contraband into prisons, to surveil schools, and to overfly critical infrastructure. State and local law enforcement need clear legal authority and the right equipment to respond.
Funding for behavioral health co-responder models.
What we built in Pasco — clinicians paired with deputies — works. It saves lives, reduces use-of-force incidents, and keeps people out of jails that were never designed to treat them. Every Florida county should have access to the same model.
Continued investment in school resource officers and threat assessment teams.
Every school. Every shift. No exceptions.
The record behind it
Under Chris's leadership, the Pasco Sheriff's Office was the first agency in the Tampa Bay area to outfit deputies with body-worn cameras — a transparency tool that protects both deputies and the public. He founded F1RST, the only training center of its kind in Florida. PSO ran one of the largest human trafficking operations in the state in 2023. The agency's School Resource Officer unit was named the best in Florida.
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