Taft police

APW wrote:

Hey, nomercyisacop, that comment hasn't been removed, its under "fired" attorney. The rest of what you said is pretty much right on except it was $35k and the attorney fees have to be added after the attorneys talk about it and have the judge approve it. So that will make the total go up. Also I agree with you on the layoffs. Those 2 fools you mentioned should be the first to go.

law abider wrote:

Before making these comments, I would hope you would take the time to inform yourselfs of the facts. Taft has really cleaned up, we have some good police officers, bad guys going to prison, drugs off the streets. Dirty cops fired!!! Life is good in Taft...

advice from a deputy wrote:

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I am going to give some advice. None of the prices are any where close but it all adds up and savings are the same. This is because I am not aware of your wages.
First of all fire the fool that caused the lawsuits. That's a given. Then....
Say each taft officer makes $30,000 a yr.
8 officers salaries =$240,000 plus overtime
Plus the chief.$40,000
Ugly secretary.$25,000
Then factor in vehicles repair, fuel etc. For 4 patrol cars.
Uniform allowances, cell phones, dispatch services/contact with county, building electricity, computers/electronics, and of course lets tag on that $35 to $40,000 lawsuit they just lost (plus I guess someone said attoney fees) and theres one more lawsuit they are going to probably lose since it's tied into the one they just lost.
Well ladies and gentlemen the salaries alone puts us at roughly $315,000 and thats not the other stuff and lawsuit above.
NOW about how much would it probably be to demolish this black hole of a police department and contract with san patricio county for services?$50,000 tops?
They are here anyways on the other side of town so why not?
Look at what that $ could buy our city:
-A Boys and Girls Club
-After school program then get grants to keep it going
-A small bus service to get people to work to and from portland and sinton a few times a day. Our low income citizens are stuck here! And mothers could make it to the super market and back with their children.
-A properly equiped safe fire department. Still volunteer but make it safe and where people want to take pride in joining.
-Paying the sick pervert on Green Ave that lives in that RV thats apparently related to the Hitts or more likely Denise OGrady. Pay him to take his sex offender RV to another town or buy him a f**king shirt and normal shorts to put on.
-Buy Mayor Vega some of those weird velcro mens dress shoes you see in the back of magazines that makes you 3 inches taller. I guess they have a mini lift inside. It should tie him over until they make ones with a large lift inside.
- Lend David Trevino some money so he can buy back his balls from segovia.
- A real library with computers and a BIG section for kids books.
- Offer GED classes at the library (this town needs that badly).
Those are some of the amazing things the city could do. The county has professional, well respected (well some of em at least) people that take pride in their jobs, investigators, sergeant, corporals etc. Already in place that work half the city anyways. Get rid of taft pd and give us real protection with trained top of the line law enforcement. Get rid of these clowns and the snake oil salesman chief.