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Stephen Mitchell allegedly steals $400k selling off agency vehicles, gets fired, no arrest, and now has his name on the garage?
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NolongerHCSO
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First I heard of this!
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What happened?
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You’re thinking like a good citizen. Like a good cop. You are analyzing that situation like a person who works everyday, does their tangible job, supports their family, pays bills, pays taxes, hopes their mental health holds together until retirement, and has to fight balancing between leaving this toxic career early enough to sustain their mental health but stay long enough to make barely enough retirement money to retire on. The typical “American dream” game. For us pawns, at least.
Lets break it down HCSO leadership style… This person allegedly took tax payer money, made it appear as if what he did was in the name of the deputies (new cars), made the agency have good optics with a new fleet, and got his name on a building. By doing nothing but buying and selling things.
Sound like anyone else you know? Spend tax payer money, buy buildings, make things appear nice, no extra pay for workers, no extra essential staff, no competitive pay for deputies and detectives, low morale, critical squad staffing.
Who would notice? Or even care? The colonels and above driving 150k fully loaded and decked out Raptors, Expeditions, F250’s, F350’s? Not to mentioned being issued multiple of those vehicles? Who else? The mid level commanders? Captains and majors that are terrified to say anything for fear of retribution or the ones harassing deputies for stats and clawing for recognition so they can become the next colonel and reap those nice job amenities?
The only glitch for this big wig directors alleged plan was getting caught and sacrificed only to save the big man. That’s the only time they take action against big wigs. Now he gets to go work in the private sector making even more money or collect his 90% pay and or drop money like some others we recently seen on the news.
Was he fired? Or simply forced to retire?
We all knew something was not right when we went from having patrol and detective vehicles for 5 years and returning them with over 150k miles on them to new cars being issued every 6 months to a year with less than 30k miles. Business man mentality. Looks like they wanted to tap into the car dealership profit market instead of just running a law enforcement agency and focusing on the core essential needs of the citizens and the TRUE first responders out there risking their lives every day.
Going to a dangerous call fells the same no matter what you drive. Try putting yourselves in the shoes of the ones really doing the job. Any deputy would take a fully staffed squad and competitive pay over a new car every 8 months, which in reality, is a pain in the ass. Having two swap equipment plus having to spend a month getting all the crap that doesn’t work fixed. Only do do it over again 8 months later.
Add this to the wound. The garage used to be open 24 hours. Now they basically only operate extended business hours. Because patrol cars don’t break down at night, right?
The HCSO… “All show, and no go”.
Lets break it down HCSO leadership style… This person allegedly took tax payer money, made it appear as if what he did was in the name of the deputies (new cars), made the agency have good optics with a new fleet, and got his name on a building. By doing nothing but buying and selling things.
Sound like anyone else you know? Spend tax payer money, buy buildings, make things appear nice, no extra pay for workers, no extra essential staff, no competitive pay for deputies and detectives, low morale, critical squad staffing.
Who would notice? Or even care? The colonels and above driving 150k fully loaded and decked out Raptors, Expeditions, F250’s, F350’s? Not to mentioned being issued multiple of those vehicles? Who else? The mid level commanders? Captains and majors that are terrified to say anything for fear of retribution or the ones harassing deputies for stats and clawing for recognition so they can become the next colonel and reap those nice job amenities?
The only glitch for this big wig directors alleged plan was getting caught and sacrificed only to save the big man. That’s the only time they take action against big wigs. Now he gets to go work in the private sector making even more money or collect his 90% pay and or drop money like some others we recently seen on the news.
Was he fired? Or simply forced to retire?
We all knew something was not right when we went from having patrol and detective vehicles for 5 years and returning them with over 150k miles on them to new cars being issued every 6 months to a year with less than 30k miles. Business man mentality. Looks like they wanted to tap into the car dealership profit market instead of just running a law enforcement agency and focusing on the core essential needs of the citizens and the TRUE first responders out there risking their lives every day.
Going to a dangerous call fells the same no matter what you drive. Try putting yourselves in the shoes of the ones really doing the job. Any deputy would take a fully staffed squad and competitive pay over a new car every 8 months, which in reality, is a pain in the ass. Having two swap equipment plus having to spend a month getting all the crap that doesn’t work fixed. Only do do it over again 8 months later.
Add this to the wound. The garage used to be open 24 hours. Now they basically only operate extended business hours. Because patrol cars don’t break down at night, right?
The HCSO… “All show, and no go”.