Tribune editorial: Keep Rivera as Salt Lake County Sheriff

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera receives a leadership award from Scott Anderson, President and CEO of Zions Bank, at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Utah Women’s Leadership Celebration in Park City Jan. 25, 2018. Fifteen-year-old mother. Onion field worker. Undercover narcotics officer. Sheriff of a million people.

And if her past is a tapestry, her present is a mosaic. The county sheriff oversees an amalgam of law enforcement in the Unified Police Department, the Salt Lake County Jail staff and the bailiff/security force for county courts and facilities.

Rivera has managed those pieces artfully in her first year of office, and she earns our…