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tomorrow they will be extorting money from citizens for real or imagined traffic violations.

Or sexual favors from good looking women who "just happen" to have a tail light out. "Here mam, we'll work this out so we don't have to write a citation, you promise to take care of the light, and I'll take care of your tail, ok?"

Yep, that sounds about right.

And this isn't the first time Volusia County has been caught flatulating it's lack of ethics into the public view. Back in 1990, former Sheriff Bob Vogel was running himself a real sweet scam as described in an article published in (of all sources) the Seattle Times:

Sheriff Bob Vogel of Volusia County, Fla., is particularly forthright in using forfeiture laws.

On Interstate 95 in Daytona Beach, the sheriff's deputies assigned to the Currency Interdiction Program routinely stop cars for traffic violations and, if the officers think the cars may be carrying contraband money, they obtain consent to search them.

The stops are all videotaped, Vogel said. While the searches are under way, the cars' occupants are asked to sit in a squad car equipped with a hidden microphone. It sometimes picks up conversations between the driver and riders that help lead the officers to hidden contraband or give them evidence to use in a forfeiture proceeding.

A drug-sniffing dog is brought to the scene if money is found that appears to deputies to be drug money - a classification based mainly on the amount of cash, the way it is packaged and the driver's story about its origin. If deputies think they have enough evidence to convince a judge that the money is related to illegal activity, they seize it.

There is a subsequent hearing in which the government presents its case and the owners of the money may try to prove that the money was obtained legally. If the government wins, as it almost always does, the money becomes the property of the government.

Yep, Volusia County Florida has quite a reputation, most of it not very good. And the good people of that county are the ones that suffer.

They deserve better than the Vogels and Garvins of the world.