07-25-2012, 10:43 PM
I hope the city council and good citizens see this group of idiots for what they are. Idiots. There is no corruption from the Chief or administration but plenty of questionable actions from the group doing all the complaining.
The Chief should not be fired, he has done great things for the Clermont Police Department such as increasing manpower, equipment, training and most importantly the increase of positive police involvement in the community, such as educating homeowners associations and the public. If he is forced out it will be a travesty that will allow these former bad cops to win. He was forced to clean up years of mismanagement from previous administrations.
Many of the people complaining were JUSTLY fired and if you look at their files, some of them were fired for lying so how are they credible now? They should have been fired and several should not have been cops in the first place. For many of these, Clermont was not the first agency to terminate them. For example, Meintzschel was previously fired from Leesburg for having sex with another cop who was on duty. She was justly fired from Clermont for conspiring along with several other bad cops, to lie and produce a fake complaint on the Chief to FDLE. That is what they took to FDLE, LIES.
Another previous officer, Bermingham, was fired from two other agencies and when he was fired from Clermont it was successfully upheld by an outside arbitrator. Garrett was fired from Lake County for conduct unbecoming of an officer related to drunken stalking of another employee.
The only thing the Chief may have done wrong was giving these idiots a second chance with a job.
There are no whistle blower issues, just bad cops who were getting weeded out for additional wrongdoing and do not want to accept personal accountability for their own actions.
Why is there only ONE current officer seen with this group complaining? Don't you think if it were really that bad you would have 52 other cops with them? That is because the rest of the cops are good cops and they support getting rid of the bad ones. The majority of officers are pleased with the Chief and support him.
I hope the citizens and officers are tired of this negative group and will speak up in support of the Chief and your good officers. Contact your city council members and let them know you support the Chief and the Police Department!
I am also calling for the good cops to take a stand against the last few negative ones so maybe they will get the hint and LEAVE. They don't like it here so they can just go. They obviously want to blame other officers for their mistakes and never accept responsibility. We should obviously make sure to back them up on calls for officer safety on the street, but when we pass them in the hall we should have nothing to say to them. Don't entertain their crap, or the crap that spews from their lips and ignore their crap at briefing.They are only out to destroy what we have worked so hard to build and they want the Chief to go because he actually holds them accountable. This is our department, I am tired of the negative few shaping our future, I am ready for the good ones to take it back.
The Chief should not be fired, he has done great things for the Clermont Police Department such as increasing manpower, equipment, training and most importantly the increase of positive police involvement in the community, such as educating homeowners associations and the public. If he is forced out it will be a travesty that will allow these former bad cops to win. He was forced to clean up years of mismanagement from previous administrations.
Many of the people complaining were JUSTLY fired and if you look at their files, some of them were fired for lying so how are they credible now? They should have been fired and several should not have been cops in the first place. For many of these, Clermont was not the first agency to terminate them. For example, Meintzschel was previously fired from Leesburg for having sex with another cop who was on duty. She was justly fired from Clermont for conspiring along with several other bad cops, to lie and produce a fake complaint on the Chief to FDLE. That is what they took to FDLE, LIES.
Another previous officer, Bermingham, was fired from two other agencies and when he was fired from Clermont it was successfully upheld by an outside arbitrator. Garrett was fired from Lake County for conduct unbecoming of an officer related to drunken stalking of another employee.
The only thing the Chief may have done wrong was giving these idiots a second chance with a job.
There are no whistle blower issues, just bad cops who were getting weeded out for additional wrongdoing and do not want to accept personal accountability for their own actions.
Why is there only ONE current officer seen with this group complaining? Don't you think if it were really that bad you would have 52 other cops with them? That is because the rest of the cops are good cops and they support getting rid of the bad ones. The majority of officers are pleased with the Chief and support him.
I hope the citizens and officers are tired of this negative group and will speak up in support of the Chief and your good officers. Contact your city council members and let them know you support the Chief and the Police Department!
I am also calling for the good cops to take a stand against the last few negative ones so maybe they will get the hint and LEAVE. They don't like it here so they can just go. They obviously want to blame other officers for their mistakes and never accept responsibility. We should obviously make sure to back them up on calls for officer safety on the street, but when we pass them in the hall we should have nothing to say to them. Don't entertain their crap, or the crap that spews from their lips and ignore their crap at briefing.They are only out to destroy what we have worked so hard to build and they want the Chief to go because he actually holds them accountable. This is our department, I am tired of the negative few shaping our future, I am ready for the good ones to take it back.