I'm sure Roger took you that
long to get to that question.
And I hadn't decided whether I was
going to answer that question or not.
But I'll answer, you know.
Deputy Larry Jacoby did absolutely
nothing wrong. I stand by him 110%.
The person who did wrong was Mary O'Connor.
It's had its consequences.
The mayor's act didn't
tamp his handle on that.
That's their business.
Where did Jacobi did nothing wrong?
He he did his job and while she asked
for a favor, he didn't give her a favor.
He handled that as he would have
handled any other like situation
any other like traffic stop.
You know.
People think that just because
you got stopped by the cops that
you're going to get a ticket.
And that is absolutely not the case,
is is that we stop a lot of cars all the
time and in very few of those cases,
very few of those situations we give tickets,
especially when it's something like this.
Think about this, what this is,
it's a golf cart.
They were about 100 yards from the
entrance to their gated community.
The only reason why they popped
out was because the restaurant
they were trying to go to within
the gated community was closed.
So they went across the street to
get some food from a restaurant and
they're going back into 100 yards away.
Cares, it's not felony.
No tag on a golf cart.
It's no tag on a golf cart.
So the outcome wouldn't have been
any different if she had just
kept her mouth shut.
Is that unless it was aggravating
circumstances or extenuating circumstances,
is that that's a warning all day
long and I hear all the rhetoric.
I hear the people running their mouths
and all this is that if she was not
a cop and she hadn't asked that,
she would have got a ticket.
No, she wouldn't.
Not only those circumstances.
Now that doesn't mean anything.
Other than what she did is unethical.
It's wrong.
It's all of those things,
and she's paying the consequence for that.
She shouldn't have said it.
She shouldn't have done it.
None of that should have happened.
But.
To say that Jeff Deputy Jacoby did
anything wrong is absolutely untrue.
And so,
because I figured you're going
to ask these questions.
So think about this for a second,
is that in 2020 in the Palace
County Sheriff's Office?
We conducted 81,000.
862 traffic stops.
81,862 traffic stops.
We issued citations 12,597 times.
That's not even 20%.
In 2021, eighty 6146 traffic stops.
Citations 15,305. This year,
year to date, we've conducted
91,473 traffic stops.
Citation 16,766 so I don't want to hear that.
She got the break just because
she was the Tampa police.
She had nothing to do with it.
The outcome would have been the same
the absolute majority of the time.
And only less than 20% of all the
traffic stops we do do we issue tickets.
Again, because there's no big deal is that
all we're trying to do is educate people.
We want to get the behavior right.
We don't want people running
around with no tags on golf carts.
We don't want people running
stop signs we don't want.
But this is not a big deal.
And I can tell you with certainty.
That the outcome wouldn't
have been any different.
Now, again, what she asked for,
she didn't get.
The problem is that she asked for it.
She asked for special treatment,
she asked for prayer privilege,
she asked for special consideration.
And then of course followed it up
with if you ever need anything,
you know, come on,
everybody can see what all that is,
but that's on her part,
not on Deputy Jacoby's part.
And I stand by him 100%.
He did nothing wrong.