St. Pete’s next police chief
Goliath J. Davis, III. Ph.D.
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This guy is a joke. Why does anyone still care what he thinks?
I’m sorry, didn’t you get fired? Enough race baiting Davis. Stop implying the existence of a “community.”
Have you noticed that only impoverished areas with large minority populations are referred to as a “community?” To imply that there is a shared identity based solely on proximate zip code and skin color is an asinine and extremely racist on it’s face. People should be VERY suspicious of people like Davis who claim to represent them because if you look hard enough they are usually only representing themselves.
Davis did nothing more than turn the police department into a failed sociology experiment and taint the badge. The problems he speaks of in the department are residual effects of his pro-criminal ideology. He attended the funeral of a cop killer but not the funeral for the officers. That is enough to completely discredit this heretic.
The destruction that Davis left on the department is still being cleaned up and has had an extremely detrimental effect on the agency and the city. Goliath Davis go back into the seedy shadows you are so adept to operating in because you have absolutely no business speaking on these matters.
Goliath Davis, you sir are a fraud and a racist. You have no idea what it means to be a professional. No one cares what you think.
Yeah ok he so not an feather more he was close frinds with my family growing up an we are wite so yeah . he’s a good man great person who has done great things for this community and family and friends Chris borgschulze
Interesting article from a man who attended a cop killers funeral rather than the two murdered officers. Also, didn’t Davis make several promotions based solely on race. Interestingly enough, these same individuals were just involved in the underhanded race – based meeting that and promotional cheating scandal thar undermined Kriseman’s authority. Interesting indeed from a man who does not even reside in St Petersburg.
Williams should have never made it to an Asst Chief spot. The city needs a police department that can break the back of the growing southside monster.
Don’t you have any cop killers’ funerals to attend?
Statements like, ‘An internal candidate ensures instability and discord.’ diminishes your credibility, Mr. Davis. How can you be sure the only candidate with an intimate understanding of our community, its history, challenges, and opportunities will ‘ensure instability’? You may not be personally in favor of the only local candidate left, but that doesn’t give you the right to make blanket generalizations.
Other than saying Williams and Bevan contributed to the current state of affairs, you provide no concrete examples explaining why Assistant Chief Bevan will lead to ‘instability and discord’. I’ve agreed with many of your assertions and positions in the past, but this one seems short sighted and inconsistent with the new direction of our city. Let us keep St. Pete local.
Mr Davis,
I beg to differ on your account that personnel had to report to 2 different Assistant Chiefs when Bevan was promoted while Gordon was still on the job. He was not on the job, that is the whole reason why Bevan was promoted. Mike McDonald was running the show and too many people within the department did not like that. (He had basically been running the Admin division since Gordon was promoted but it looked bad having a civilian running the show). Gordon came in for photo ops and that was basically it. He was useless after his daughter was killed and should have retired then, not a year later. He did not and basically bilked the city for a year worth of work with the help of Chuck Harmon, who allowed him not to come to work. Yes it was awful what happened but move on, a lot of other people have. You, Mr Davis, got to where you did because you were able to undermine a police chief hired from outside the city. You, along with you friend Don McRea, fired said chief for being a supposed racist. Without him being fired, you would not have risen to the level of power that you did. Thank goodness that the majority of people you have placed into power have or will be retiring very soon. The people that were promoted under Chief Harmon did not have to play your games as much. Some of them did not get sucked into your ideals and could see past the lies that they are. Your protege did not get moved on because he caused too much trouble that the mayor saw directly through. Ten years ago, he could have gotten away with it, now, everyone sees its a dumbass stunt. Get over yourself Mr Davis.
Wow, the Ghost of Curtsinger still haunts us. How many Leroy jokes do you have to make to before you go from supposed racist to being an actual racist? How about characterizing sensitivity training as white bashing?
Return all the power and responsibility to educate back to the local level. Support hyper local schools. Eliminating all state and federal education mandates would be a start.
Read some Rothbard, Mises and Hoppe. Explore the Ron Paul education curriculum. Learn about the benefits of small neighborhood mixed age “one room” schools. Quit pretending that a little more tax money, or a little more government control, will fix a problem caused by government control of education.
As long as government controls schools, they will get more expensive, with poorer outcomes. Government schools have destroyed 3 generations of education for black and white children, especially for the poor.
Why not look for non-government solutions?
I’m guessing you will dismiss this by saying “Ron Paul is a racist” and that libertarians are crazy for thinking that treating people as individuals- not black, female, gay, etc., but as real people- will help fix the problem, and that 50 years of failing government schools has nothing to do with government.
Or you could be a man and admit that government is the problem, not the solution, and try to help these poor children.
Richard Dale Fitzgerald 2