Was Paul Aguirre Fired? He is the retired Sheriff Deputy that had firsthand knowledge of the Stan Sniff favoritism for CCW Permits. Aguirre just got his TAP program gig and it is the belief of the RightonDaily Blog that part of the nexus was to gag him from talking about Sniff’s coin-operated CCW Permit Program.
Two others mentioned specifically that kept their TAP jobs were Retired Chief Suck Up Robert Dotts and another retiree named Richard Coz. Both are seriously under the influence of Stan and may need years of detox if Sniff loses re-election. Dotts appears as a donor on a recent Stan Sniff form 460.
This leads me to Drone Boy. Frank “Drone Boy” Taylor is a retiree drawing his pension. He is also a TAP program employee AND he works as a consultant for the Drone Program. He has been working on the Drone program at least since 2014 (Per the article). Drone Boy is Triple-Dipping.
The Riverside Sheriff’s Office does not have a Drone operational to perform a law-enforcement related missions as of the writing of this blog. The City of Beaumont at a cost of less than $100K a year has a drone operational and in service.
It gets better, Frank Taylor has unfettered access to a Sheriff’s Department Helicopter to fly him wherever he wants to go in order to “test” the Drones he has assigned to him. When Drone Boy goes out to some remote part of the desert, the pilot at a huge cost to the taxpayers has to sit and wait for him to play with his toys.
Stan Sniff is going to run to his patsies in the Riverside Press-Enterprise (whose management shipped out John Bender shortly after writing the story about Chad Bianco being retaliated against) and claim he terminated the TAP Employees because of the evil supervisors and their funding cuts. Many of the TAP program employees work at the Courthouse providing security – this is the optic Sniff is trying to create in order to try and absolve himself for his failures to manage the budget of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.
Sniff is not telling the truth, once again.
His friends and donors get to stay, everyone else goes. Drone Boy has had 4 years to get the Drone program off the ground at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the taxpayer. (Think of how many deputies could be hired with that money?) What we have is more waste and another reactionary move from a man who feels his grip on the second floor fading.
So 960 hours x $50.00 and hour is $57,600. How many TAP employees are there who don’t do a damn thing except steal from the taxpayers?
How much to employee a deputy? Hell, how about a classified employee to deal with the CCW debacle. I’m sure these retired barnacles can live pretty comfortably on their pensions since they retired above the rank of sergeant (medical is paid for them but not the ranks of sergeant and below). So, really, what the hell are they employed for?
Someone needs to look into all of the retired minions who are collecting TAP wages and evaluate why. Look into the recently retired captains (Wilhite) lieutenants, and chiefs (Kennedy-Smith?).
“Consulting” is the job description, I’m sure because they were soooooo valuable to the department. This is what these crooks have to look forward to when they “retire” while others are turned down for TAP positions that would benefit individual stations.
Or deputies who need to medically retire and have to fight for whatever scraps the county is willing to provide them.
Sucking the taxpayers bone marrow. No wonder many of the public hate public safety retirement systems. It’ll be gone someday and we will have these turds to thank for making that benefit go bye-bye.
Remember a few months ago when RSA was looking at having retired Captain Fonteneau run against Sniff. Fonteneau is [was] a reserve deputy. When this information [the meeting between RSA and Fonteneau] got back to the 2nd floor, Sniff got rid of 90% of the reserve deputies… IF YOU RULE BY FEAR, YOU ARE DOOMED TO FAIL.
Anonymous my neighbor is a Deputy and mentioned that very thing. Reading this blog is confirming a lot of what my neighbor said not that I already didn’t believe Jim. Such a sad state of affairs it seems. To a civilian like me we only want our cops paid and trained well but also don’t want to see our tax money squandered. It seems like Sheriff Sniff isn’t a good steward of our money. I heard him speak recently at a function and all he did was say nasty things about the Sheriffs Union. The crowd in attendance was put off by it and my close friend said he sounded like “a bitter ex girlfriend whose old boyfriend found a cuter girl”. It looks like Inneed to get my research done on Brown or Bianco.