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==Service as sheriff==

==Service as sheriff==

In 1987, Deen resigned as a deputy sheriff to run against his former boss<ref name=mybossier>{{cite web|url=http://mybossier.blogspot.com/2011/03/whittington-is-wild-card-in-bossier.html|title=My Bossier, March 1, 2011|publisher=mybossier.blogspot.com|accessdate=February 4, 2014}}</ref> and fellow [[Democratic Party |Democrat]], Sheriff [[Vol Dooley]] of [[Bossier City, Louisiana|Bossier City]]. Deen unseated Dooley, who was seeking a third full term in the office, 17,113 (62 percent) to 7,973 (28.9 percent). Bill Gray, a third Democratic candidate, held the remaining 2,518 votes (9.1 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Results, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1991, Deen secured his second term with 89 percent of the vote over another Democrat, Lillian L. Lewter of Bossier City.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> Deen was thereafter unopposed in the elections of 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007.

In 1987, Deen resigned as a deputy sheriff to run against his former boss<ref name=mybossier>{{cite web|url=http://mybossier.blogspot.com/2011/03/whittington-is-wild-card-in-bossier.html|title=My Bossier, March 1, 2011|publisher=mybossier.blogspot.com|accessdate=February 4, 2014}}</ref> and fellow [[Democratic Party |Democrat]], Sheriff [[Vol Dooley]] of [[Bossier City]]. Deen unseated Dooley, who was seeking a third full term in the office, 17,113 (62 percent) to 7,973 (28.9 percent). Bill Gray, a third Democratic candidate, held the remaining 2,518 votes (9.1 percent).<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Results, October 24, 1987.</ref> In 1991, Deen secured his second term with 89 percent of the vote over another Democrat, Lillian L. Lewter of Bossier City.<ref>Louisiana Secretary of State, Election Returns, October 19, 1991.</ref> Deen was thereafter unopposed in the elections of 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007.

From 1996 to 2001, Deen was the president of the Northwest Division of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, an agency created under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct federal funds to local and state law enforcement entities with the goal of making them more effective in protecting the public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rrdnw.com/History1.htm|title=History of Northwest Law Enforcement Agency|publisher=rrdnw.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref>

From 1996 to 2001, Deen was the president of the Northwest Division of the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, an agency created under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct federal funds to local and state law enforcement entities with the goal of making them more effective in protecting the public.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rrdnw.com/History1.htm|title=History of Northwest Law Enforcement Agency|publisher=rrdnw.com|accessdate=February 17, 2014}}</ref>