Fla. officer fired for demanding free coffee

[mountainperson36]

JazzKeyz wrote:

why do all these fruitcakes seem to congregate in Florida....
Too much sun?????

because of bush all the crazy people needed a place to go

[I_DUNNO]

Here's the story!

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.— An internal affairs report says a Daytona Beach police officer demanded free coffee and tea from a Starbucks and threatened employees with slower emergency response times if they refused.

Lt. Major Garvin, a 15-year veteran, was fired July 8. According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Chief Mike Chitwood says Garvin recently failed a polygraph test that he insisted on taking.

The coffeehouse's employees claim that since June 2007, Garvin had visited the store as many as six times a night while on duty. Besides demanding free drinks, workers complained that Garvin also cut in front of paying customers.

A telephone listing for Garvin could not be found.

This man,apparently an officer of high status had been coming into this particular Starbucks for more than a year before this story was printed.

He flaunted his authority, and sense of self importance to the employees and the public. I am amazed that this issue hadn't come to the forefront sooner than what we see in print.

Some establishments offer the "Free Coffee" incentives to officers to make certain they have an "officer presence" in their establishments. It is a type of "insurance policy" to keep the less than preferred customers on their toes.

I don't think Starbucks is the type of establishment that would need to give out freebies to officers.

This officer definitely overstepped any "implied" privelidge he felt entitled to by virtue of his position.

He deserved his fate!

[Bubbletoes]

Good riddance to this self-important, arrogant cop.
I remember years ago in Philly the Geno's hamburger chain stores would give the district cops freebies to encourage a police presence in the stores.
The greedy cops in neighboring districts (with no Geno's) crossed the line and spoiled it. After a while, Gino's calculated that it would be cheaper to hire their-own 'rent-a-cops' than to give away hamburgers to so many real cops, and that's what they did.

[Cue]

He must have been an old cop – I too remember the day when you could pay for a donut and the coffee was free since I am an old man. Starbucks screwed it up or everybody with the 4 dollar lattes and 6 dollar expresso.

Do not even get me started on bottled water compared to a gallon of gas.

[homeless millionare]

they should take his gun and shoot his f%%% balls off

[MeanandNasty]

JazzKeyz wrote:

<quoted text>Whever I get pulled over by a cop I always offer him a box of Krispy Kreme glazed donuts. Never get a ticket.

I wish you wouldn't do that. It only encourages them. Next they'll want you to have a thermos of fresh coffee to go with it.

[seeyaalright]

I always give free coffee to cops and tell my employees to do the same.....Their presence alone helps keep predators away. I'd end up pouring out a bunch of it anyway.
Now the act of demanding coffee and threatening delayed responses was a dumb move. They must have taped it....usually someone's word against a cop is nothing.

[formally abducted]

seeyaalright wrote:

I always give free coffee to cops and tell my employees to do the same.....Their presence alone helps keep predators away. I'd end up pouring out a bunch of it anyway.
Now the act of demanding coffee and threatening delayed responses was a dumb move. They must have taped it....usually someone's word against a cop is nothing.

I agree,my mother would always give coffee and donuts for the presence,she would always say you never know! that could be the last cup of coffee that officer will have,and sadly, one night it was for one of them.

[annie]

I just think he was grumpy because he was on a no donut diet per drs orders.

[What the]

A lot of business offer free food or drinks to law enforcement. It is a form of thank you as well as bribery. If they need the officers to respond they might get to their place quicker. Or if the have a night deposit and need a officer to escort they are more willing. It has been going on for a long, long time. It is when the officer takes advantage of it or expects it that's when it gets ugly. We need police to police our police. I wish we had police that would write speeding tickets or traffic tickets to officers who speed and break traffic laws when not responding to a call or in pursuit. They are supposed to obey all traffic and safety laws unless they are in pursuit or in route to a call.

[Who Cares]

What the wrote:

A lot of business offer free food or drinks to law enforcement. It is a form of thank you as well as bribery. If they need the officers to respond they might get to their place quicker. Or if the have a night deposit and need a officer to escort they are more willing. It has been going on for a long, long time. It is when the officer takes advantage of it or expects it that's when it gets ugly. We need police to police our police. I wish we had police that would write speeding tickets or traffic tickets to officers who speed and break traffic laws when not responding to a call or in pursuit. They are supposed to obey all traffic and safety laws unless they are in pursuit or in route to a call.

I used to work in a high scale restaurant. One day, the local police called in an order. No lie.$440. When they got there, the woman officer did not expect to pay, she seemed shocked we even told her the bill amount.
The police woman went out to her cruiser and got on the radio. Minutes later a few other Cops showed up and gave her money, she came in , paid, left no tip, and the next night (Friday) they set up a DWI checkpoint in front of the building.

Months later, my friend and I were waiting for the manager to come out at 2 am, not wanting to leave her alone after a string of robberies. We saw two men with flashlights enter the building through a back door the dishwashers had open, we followed them into the building , down the stairs,we motioned for the kitchen guys that were left, about four, to get knives and come with us toward the office. When they were about to reach the office, I said loudly "CAN I HELP YOU?". They jumped almost out of their skin and whipped around.

"Ummm, uuhhh, yeah, we are the police, we saw your back door was open and came in to see if everything was OK."They showed us badges and then left.

Three months later the robbers were caught.They were Cops. And they make $100,000 a year here. Nice right?

[What the]

It is sad that this is not a suprise that it would happen. Lets remember though there are more good officer than bad. They do us a great service. It is a shame that the bad ones cloud the good ones. I am just as much at fault for typing what I do but do not take it as a general overall picture. I respect MOST officers and what they do.

Who Cares wrote:

<quoted text>
I used to work in a high scale restaurant. One day, the local police called in an order. No lie.$440. When they got there, the woman officer did not expect to pay, she seemed shocked we even told her the bill amount.
The police woman went out to her cruiser and got on the radio. Minutes later a few other Cops showed up and gave her money, she came in , paid, left no tip, and the next night (Friday) they set up a DWI checkpoint in front of the building.
Months later, my friend and I were waiting for the manager to come out at 2 am, not wanting to leave her alone after a string of robberies. We saw two men with flashlights enter the building through a back door the dishwashers had open, we followed them into the building , down the stairs,we motioned for the kitchen guys that were left, about four, to get knives and come with us toward the office. When they were about to reach the office, I said loudly "CAN I HELP YOU?". They jumped almost out of their skin and whipped around.
"Ummm, uuhhh, yeah, we are the police, we saw your back door was open and came in to see if everything was OK."They showed us badges and then left.
Three months later the robbers were caught.They were Cops. And they make $100,000 a year here. Nice right?

[Who Cares]

What the wrote:

It is sad that this is not a suprise that it would happen. Lets remember though there are more good officer than bad. They do us a great service. It is a shame that the bad ones cloud the good ones. I am just as much at fault for typing what I do but do not take it as a general overall picture. I respect MOST officers and what they do.<quoted text>

It is all of them. Once a cop who liked my aunt was off duty drinking in a bar. My aunt did not like him "that way" but as he got drunker he told my aunt he could FRAME my uncle for a murder he could not solve.

A friend of mine was drinking beer in a park after dark, the cops chased him, he jumped into a pond drunk and tried to swim away, they threw rocks at him, he got hit in the head, and drowned while they watched.Rescue teams "were called" , and forty minutes later, they fished my dead 17 year old friend out of the water.

Martin Tankleff. Enough said about that.

A buddy of mine was beaten severly by police for "public intoxication" and arrested, which by the way, did not stop the beating. After six hours when my friend did not "straighten up" from the beatings, shift change came and the incoming Sgt knew the kid, a severe diabetic in shock. He almost died.

Lets not add to this that women can get out of fake tickets and DWI's by having willing sex or being dragged in on phony charges. Raped.

Ask any NYC cop, Nassau, Hell any Cop in NY, Suffolk Cops are Nazi's.

[Bubbletoes]

"All the cops are criminals and all the sinners saints"
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely"

[Corrupt County Tennessee]

Mountain City Deputy is a Big Fat Liar
July 12, 2008 by demarcationville
From TriCities.com :
Nearly everyone carries a cell phone and it’s hard to find one without that camera feature. It’s convenient when you want to take that impromptu photo, but a Tri-Cities area man ended up behind bars after snapping a shot of a Johnson County sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop.
The cell phone photographer says the arrest was intimidation, but the deputy says he feared for his life.
“Here’s a guy who takes me out of the car and arrests me in front of my kids. For what? To take a picture of a police officer?” said Scott Conover.
A Johnson County sheriff’s deputy arrested Scott Conover for unlawful photography.
“He says you took a picture of me. It’s illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer,” said Conover.
Conover took a picture of a sheriff’s deputy on the side of the road on a traffic stop. Conover was stunned by the charge.
“This is a public highway,” said Conover.
And it was not a place where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy as Tennessee code states. The deputy also asked Conover to delete the picture three times.
“He said if you don’t give it to me, you’re going to jail,” said Conover.
Under the advice of the Johnson County attorney, the sheriff would not comment and the arresting deputy said he didn’t want to incriminate himself by talking to us.
In an affidavit, the deputy said he saw something black with a red light which he thought was a threat. Conover was also arrested for pointing a laser at a law enforcement officer.
“At no time did I have a laser. I had an iPhone,” said Conover.
The rest of the article is here. Conover’s charges, as they were printed in the Mountain City Tomahawk:
John Scott Conover, 70120/ Disorderly Conduct/ Dep McCloud, 70121/ Pointing a Laser @ an Officer, 70122/ Unlawful Photography
Refusing to delete pictures taken from a public area isn’t disorderly. It’s asserting one’s rights. And while I understand the reasoning behind the “don’t point big scary lasers at cops” law, the charge just doesn’t fly in this case. If the officer asked Conover to delete the photos, he had obviously established this wasn’t a laser.
What happened seems clear to me: Conover annoyed the cop by taking his picture. When Conover refused to delete them, the cop got angry and arrested him.(After all, the photos might have been taken with the intention of policing the police - and how dare a mere mortal citizen do this?) After the arrest, the officer scrambled to find some law, any law which would back up his actions.
Conover heads to court on August 6th - and I imagine the charges will be dismissed. The department surely knows all Hell will break loose if they’re not - but is this good enough?
This man was arrested on trumped up charges, hauled off to jail in front of his kids and had more rights violated than you can shake a stick at - I’ll also bet Conover’s photos were erased. Even if the whole thing is tossed out, who won?

[Bubbletoes]

In the case of Mountain City Deputy is a Big Fat Liar
July 12, 2008 by demarcationville:

The citizen could be in for a big pay-day on this. It's been held in various cases, particularly one in PA, that not only are you permitted to take a picture of anything/anyone you see in a public place, BUT you are specifically allowed to take pictures of your public servants in the performance of their duties (as long as you are not interfering) which WE pay them for. I'd like to see more precedent like this. Cops had better get used to this or their departments are going to pay-out a lot of money for their arrogance and intimidation. Any cop found guilty should be FIRED; they are a liability.