17 April 2024, El Paso, Texas, Steven Zimmerman—Did an Officer threaten the whole El Paso Department with an email on her way out the door?
Ashley Pagitt, who was in the El Paso Police Department and later promoted to Sergeant, sent the following email to everyone in EPPD:
The verse reads: To me belongeth vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
Pagitt, who has allegedly made false reports towards officers with EPPD, doesn’t seem well-liked by the department.
Pagitt decided to file for medical retirement for being retroactively offended, thus setting a precedent that can be called upon by anyone wanting to claim a medical diagnosis of what? No one can wrap their mind around it.
“I am not saying people don’t have trauma,” says another Lieutenant with the El Paso Police Department. “What I am saying is whatever Pagitt has, or had, was of her own making. I dare say, a work of fiction.”
“What is the point of her message, her email?” asked an Officer who sent us the email. “I am starting to believe that she is unfit for duty.”
Another Officer, who also sent us the email, said, “This is what gets promoted? This is what she says to everyone. I don’t get it.”
Looking at the email, I can’t make sense of it either.
“I know she was trying to be placed on medical retirement, and reading this, I think she needs to be,” says a Lieutenant with the El Paso Police Department.
Another comment we received, with a copy of the email, was, “They will just let anyone put on a badge and get the job. Her recent past here, the stories she told, she doesn’t need to be here.”
“She wasn’t any good at anything,” says another Officer with EPPD. “She just wanted off patrol and managed to get her way into crime scene.”
We agree. Unfortunately, the department is about quantity, not quality.