"We have a new marshal coming," said Jack Henderson, the mayor elect. "Just having new people in appointed positions, we're hoping that we'll see changes in the departments they'll be overseeing. And obviously everybody is hoping that it will be better than the last person."

Henderson, who ran his campaign for mayor as a man who will bring positive change to Tombstone, decided Talvy didn't meet his standards after council member elect Randy Davis investigated how the marshal's office has been run. Davis said he found many problems, including the office being up to 10 months behind on paperwork and people being only cited for felonies instead of getting arrested.

"Not real effective police work in this town," Davis said.

Henderson picked Davis to spearhead the investigation because he is retired LAPD and has 25 years as a private and insurance fraud investigator.

Talvy, however, disagrees with the decision. "The department has been unstable," he said. "I want to stay in, I think that two years is never long enough."

In two years, Talvy said, a marshal begins to stabilize, and learns what kind of leadership he engages in. By switching the marshal the community has to get used to someone entirely different. "The stability ends. Now we're going to get somebody else, we don't know what his leadership style is, management style, what he wants, what his priorities are."

Tavly also worries that changes he tried to make won't be carried out. One of these changes Talvy started was working out 24-hour dispatch service with Cochise County, which was a step toward meeting the requirements to receive 911 services in Tombstone. If he had finished, emergency calls would go directly to the marshal's office instead of the county.

The requirements he had to meet included upgrading his deputies' armor, installing in-dash cameras to the police vehicles and receiving a certain amount of emergency calls.

"I've worked long and hard because of the support of the mayor and council to give me full time dispatchers," he said, "when the city was in a critical state that we were not getting our calls given to us for 40 minutes to respond to an incident. That was one large change for the community."

Talvy also contends that he was not given a fair chance to keep his job. He said he had submitted his resume after Henderson was elected because there was no public announcement that they were hiring a marshal.

Instead resumes were accepted as Henderson and Davis unofficially searched for a new marshal.

They took seven resumes for marshal, and interviewed the top two, said Henderson. They were looking for someone with 15 years' experience and had held at least the position of staff sergeant or higher.

When Talvy finally gave them a resume a few weeks ago, he was told that he was too late.

Davis argues that despite the lateness, he took Talvy's resume and reviewed it as he had all the others.

Talvy believes that his fate was already sealed.

"As soon as the mayor was selected I knew exactly what was going to happen," he said.

He attributes his downfall to enforcing recent ordinances that limited the ability of businesses to advertise themselves on Allen Street.

The ordinances, passed under the leadership of Mayor Dusty Escapule, seemed to target the advertising practices of Mike Carrafa, owner of the Six Gun City, a bar on 5th Street.

Carrafa was cited several times for soliciting, passing out menus and having his actors call to tourists in too loud a voice.

Talvy even arrested Carrafa, which was caught on camera and uploaded to YouTube. This spurred the movement that led to the change of mayors and prompted Carrafa to run for city council.

In Talvy's point of view these are laws on the book that were not yet challenged when he enforced them and that it's not until they are, that people get a chance to see if they're fair.

"They blame me for a lot," he said. "Whether I believe in certain laws or certain ordinances has no bearing. My job is to look at the books and say 'did he violate this,' and if he did then you need to enforce it. When they blatantly do it in front of you because they want to challenge it and they want to be cited, then I'm the bad guy."