Fired DUI Gresham Police Officer Sues City
PORTLAND, Oregon — A Gresham police officer fired for driving drunk in an unmarked police car has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the city, the police chief and others, alleging his rights were violated under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The lawsuit filed in Portland says Jason Servo was suffering from alcoholism, a recognized disability under the act, and shouldn’t have been fired.
The suit also alleges Servo was denied due process, and the police union failed to represent him adequately.
Servo was arrested in January 2011 after he crashed into a ditch while off duty. The lawsuit says he had spent the day at firearms training and then went out to eat and drink with fellow officers.
As a life long imbiber, I’m very aware of the militant and aggressive prosecution of drinkers. This, of course, is carried out by police officers.
There’s something really special about a law enforcement officer who violates the law and then wants rewarded for it. It wasn’t even his car, it was the city’s!!!
A cop, driving a city owned car, gets drunked up, wrecks the car and thinks he shouldn’t be fired. Not only that, he thinks he should be rewarded for his reckless and illegal behavior! One has to wonder how many drunk drivers this assclown has cuffed and stuffed throughout his career.
Don’t get me wrong. If you drink and then wreck, you should be cuffed and stuffed. It’s just that there ought to be a special little place where we put people like Servo.
It’s stuff like this which causes people to lose faith in the system. Alcoholism is a disability? Yea, baby!!!!!! Retirement, here I come!!!!!
h/t Scott
suyts space 
I might consider it as a career!
Heck yea!!! I’m off to the liquor store!!!
And to think I waited forty eight years , somebody slap me !
I love it!
A Gov.Agcy. were I work documented a guy drunk on the
job many times and fired him.A year later a slick lawyer
gets him reinstated with all back pay and leavetime. the
guy goes on vacation with all that money and never comes
back. Oh did mention the Union was so proud of their victory.
Alfred
It is Oregon- he will win.
don’t think I have ever agreed with you more. I am very dubious of all these disabilites and diseases. that said i am no fan of the criminal justice system, but I don’t care how you got to be an alcoholic or what treatment you might get from a caring therapeutic nanny state, you CAN’T be a police officer if you gotta drink
And they certainly don’t need $6 million of taxpayer money because they turned themselves into an alcoholic.
Imagine the boost to the economy if he wins 6 million and blows it all on booze and hospital stays.
A stimulus package!!!!
and one that might actually work!
‘a recognized disability under the act’
I wonder if they get their own parking space.
I’m a bit confused about the hat tip..is it for a different Scott? Did you do a search for this after my tangle with PhD where I asked about drug addicts being given a free pass because they were born with a predisposition for such behavior?
-Scitt
Yeh, I didn’t know how to distinguish properly….. https://suyts.wordpress.com/open-thread-tips-and-whatnot-2/#comment-66874 …… different Scott. But, blogworthy nonetheless.
Now you’re confusing me!!! “Scitt”?
Sorry James, long day. Can’t even spell my name. That’s (at least) the second time I’ve misspelled my name on a blog comment…the other one wasn’t today though.
-Scott
LOL, no worries. I just didn’t want to identify the other Scott as “the other Scott”. There should be a rule!!! But, there isn’t. And, this is worthwhile.
Capital S Scott, versus lower case S Scott.
There are a half dozen Phil’s over at WUWT, so using my last name just makes it easier to keep me differentiated from the rest.
He’s dissshhabled!
Heee shoundsss OK to meee, Mines’a scotch and oooone icecuuube.
I hear Biden is following this story closely…
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