Please LEAVE

JD, Please take this opportunity while in charge to straighten this place out!!!! Chief, nobody wanted you to begin with, trust me I was there. After you left from your “interview” we all questioned your dedication to our department and how long you would actually stay for. I was in the room when someone asked you about your history, not just 2 or 3 different departments, but MULTIPLE places. You fed us some political BS line that you wanted to be our Chief, establish yourself in Tampa, and improve our department. Well what you failed to realize is that the room was filled with REAL cops that saw right through your BS. You looked at this place as another stepping stone for your career (look at your history if you don’t believe me). Chief’s challenge, TRT, North zone, etc all promotes your resume and nothing else. You showed your true face when you put in your application to VCU and didn’t get hired, and now you have to work here at USF… exposed, and worried about your year to year contract. The proof is in your relationship with the VP’s office. Notifications, emails, unsaid policies, emails, and your ridiculous “investigative skills” (really, pull the tapes from every gas station from here to TALLAHASSEE?? Please put down the remote and turn off A&E) Fact is, you don’t trust anyone here. Look at all the people who have, or are in the process of leaving. Nobody is leaving because they don’t want to work on a campus and respond to college calls… they are leaving because they are ALL sick of the managerial BS!! Do us all a favor when you are in Sarasota… Spend your free time at the hotel and put in a few applications for other departments where you might actually be accepted.

After graduating from Largo High School in 1977, Longo worked in the Tampa Bay (WHAT DID HE DO?) area and joined the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves (NICE TATTOO), later transferring to the Army Reserves. Longo began his law enforcement career in 1981 with the Tampa Police Department, assigned to District 1 patrol: the West Shore, Kennedy, MacDill Air Force Base area (PERSONNEL JACKET NEEDS TO BE CHECKED). Longo worked for the Belleair Bluffs Police Department from 1981 (OKAY, IF HE BEGAN HIS TPD CAREER IN 1981 AND STARTED BELLEAIR BLUFFS IN 1981 DID HE EVEN MAKE IT OUT OF TRAINING WITH TPD?) to 1982 and was with the Belleair Beach Police Department from 1982 to 1985, (1ST CHILD) when he graduated from Eckerd College with a bachelor's degree in political science. After graduation, Longo became a reserve police officer with the Issaquah (Wash.) Police Department (HMMM, WHY THE MOVE OUT WEST AND JUST A RESERVE OFFICER DID HE GET A PAYCHECK? ISSAQUAH IS A PRETTY SMALL TOWN TO HAVE RESERVE OFFICERS) from 1986 to 1988, followed by a year with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (1988-1989) (SERIOUSLY HE TOUTS A YEAR WITH THE DEA. THAT’S NOT EVEN LONG ENOUGH TO GET WET BEHIND THE EARS OUT OF TRAINING). In 1989, he became chief of police of the Waitsburg (Wash.) Police Department and remained there for three years (2ND CHILD) (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE LOOK UP THIS DEPARTMENT AROUND THOSE YEARS!! COME ON, FROM JOB HOPPING TO CHIEF OF POLICE). Longo attended law school at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., earning a master's degree in public policy and a law degree in 1996. (3RD CHILD) (1992-1996 A COLLEGE STUDENT, WHAT ABOUT JOB HISTORY DURING THIS TIME?) Longo then returned to the Pacific Northwest to teach at Crown College in Everett, Wash., and served as assistant chief of police in 1998 in Glendive, Mont. (LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT, HE GOT HIS DEGREE IN 1996 THEN MOVED BACK OUT WEST TO TEACH THEN IN 1998 MOVED TO MONTANA TO BE AN ASSISTANT CHIEF THEN MOVED AGAIN WITHIN A YEAR BACK TO VIRGINIA BEACH) Longo returned to the Virginia Beach area in 1999 to become chief of police of Old Dominion University from 1999 to 2003 (3 ½ YEARS), when he became assistant chief of police at FSU in Tallahassee (3 ½ YEARS). "I prefer smaller jurisdictions," he said. "You can dig into problems more. There's little more of a personal touch." (THIS GUY HAS THE MOST DEDICATED WIFE AND FAMILY I HAVE EVER HEARD OF. YOU ARE A VERY LUCKY MAN) LOWER CASE TEXT TAKEN FROM ST PETE TIMES ARTICLE WRITTEN IN 2006 FOUND ON THE WEB

What qualifies you to determine who is a real cop and who is not?
Have you ever killed anyone? If you haven't, nobody cares about your opinion. You don't know a thing about killin' folks. Therefore, your opinion means nothing in the grand scheme of life.

What qualifies you to determine who is a real cop and who is not?
Have you ever killed anyone? If you haven't, nobody cares about your opinion. You don't know a thing about killin' folks. Therefore, your opinion means nothing in the grand scheme of life.

Since when does killing someone make you a real cop????

Wow, someone is trigger happy. Do you sit and cean your gun with the hopes you might use it one day? Someone really needs to sit you down and remind you that killing people is not part of this job. I really hope you, or the rest of us are never in the situation to take another life. But you keep drinking your kool-aid boy!! Such a big bad a$$ campus cop you are!

Does any of this even matter??? :?

Does any of this even matter??? :?

NO IT DOES NOT MATTER. SOMEONE IS PISSED AT THE CHIEF AND IT DOESNT TAKE TOO MUCH IMAGINATION TO GUESS WHO. BUT AS LONG AS HE GETS US WHAT WE NEED AND TAKES CARE OF BUSINESS I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH HIM. WHEN'S THE LAST TIME WE SAW A NICE RAISE OFFERED BY ADMIN TO PBA WITHOUT A FIGHT? LONGO DID THAT AND THERE IS MORE COMING THIS YEAR UNDER THAT CONTRACT.

TAKE MY ADVICE AND STAY OUT OF TROUBLE AND THEN YOU WONT HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH HIM.

Are you guys hiring and how is it to work there? need some help, thanks

Are you guys hiring and how is it to work there? need some help, thanks


are you paying attention to anything that is posted here ???????????

Are you guys hiring and how is it to work there? need some help, thanks

Are you guys hiring and how is it to work there? need some help, thanks
The job is pretty good. 12 hour shifts. Pretty good equipment and the pay isn’t that bad. But with any job, unless you are the guy in charge there will always be some things that you think are silly, stupid, right, good, bad, or whatever but as the employee, if you want your job you have to go along with those things. The community is a great place to interact and for the most part the community doesn’t dislike the police. The supervisors are not all on the same page but this never seems to pose a big issue. You will learn to work a certain way for whomever you work for and everyone is easy enough to get along with so long as you don’t try to buck the system.

Are you guys hiring and how is it to work there? need some help, thanks
The job is pretty good. 12 hour shifts. Pretty good equipment and the pay isn’t that bad. But with any job, unless you are the guy in charge there will always be some things that you think are silly, stupid, right, good, bad, or whatever but as the employee, if you want your job you have to go along with those things. The community is a great place to interact and for the most part the community doesn’t dislike the police. The supervisors are not all on the same page but this never seems to pose a big issue. You will learn to work a certain way for whomever you work for and everyone is easy enough to get along with so long as you don’t try to buck the system.

That is good information for someone starting out at this place on the job. It will be good for a couple years depending on your personality and goals. The ones that want to stay, like the slower University Police work or they have retired and continue on in their police career here. The others that stay longer than 3 or 4 years get usually get pissed off at the way things are run here and leave unless they are on the fast track for promotion, which isn't that much, or they get the "silver spoon" passed on them and are moved along quickly and guarnteed promotion. Most get frustrated after a few years and want to do aggresive police work, or if they don't get the early promotion within the first 4 or 5 years of their career they get frustated and leave. A of these are the Alpha type males that want to run the place after putting a few years in and leave because they get unhappy with things, we've always had a them here, they usually don't last long. If you are a female, you will get better pay and advance quicker. If you are a minority, especially female and have it together you will excell quicker than the silver spoon employees, but most of the qualified ones go to the bigger agencies that pay better and offer a better career, USF usually gets the lower qualified ones that are usually not up to par and won't progress throught he ranks quickly.

You can have the St Pete Chief.

We don't want him. We have the newest silver spoon working for the golden boy now. I am guessing she will be protected, so she can advance upward, despite here poor leadership and qualities as a supervisor and replace the old Lt. that had the silver spoon her entire career.

TAKE HOMES, TAZERS, AR's, NEW BUILDING. IT'S A GREAT TIME TO BE A USF COP !!!!! SANDY LOVES US!!!!! WHOOPIE!!!! :devil: :cop: :devil: :cop: :devil: :cop: