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| Broward sheriff’s excuses are just obscene |
| 2018-02-28 |
| [NYPOST] The Broward County sheriff, whose disgraceful performance in the Stoneman Douglas shooting has been a master class in evasion of responsibility, is the latest entry in why we don’t trust our public institutions. It’s hard to imagine a more comprehensive and catastrophic failure from beginning to end than that of the sheriff’s office in the Parkland massacre. It ignored warnings that were specific and chilling about the shooter and at least one of its deputies waited outside the school while the shooting occurred. (And perhaps others did as well in the immediate aftermath.) Sheriff Israel appropriately pronounced himself disgusted with the deputy, who has lost his job. But asked in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday if he acknowledges that had his department acted differently the shooter might have been foiled, the sheriff responded with a flip rhyme, "ifs and buts were candy and nuts." It’s not as though the sheriff, mindful of the need to get a handle on his department’s handling of the case, has been quietly tending his own shop. At the CNN town hall last week, he turned in a crowd-pleasing performance. He opined about the new authorities that the police require and joined in lambasting NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch to cheers from the audience. He was emphatic about everything not touching on what officers under his authority did or didn’t do. When attention turned to that, he suddenly became mincingly precise and demanded to know more details about reported warning signs. When Loesch cited media accounts of 39 calls to the police, Israel denounced the figure as categorically false. And the lawman was right ‐ it was at least 18 calls. What were these warnings? In 2016, a caller to the sheriff’s office said the perpetrator "planned to shoot up a school." More recently, on Nov. 30, a caller told the sheriff’s office that the shooter was amassing weapons and "could be a school shooter in the making." The motto is that when we see something, we should say something. In the case of the Parkland shooter, people said something, over and over again, to little or no effect. The cliché after disasters is that no one "connected the dots." In the case of the Parkland shooter, the dots were connected with bright lines. Yet nothing happened, and the sheriff’s office had a large hand in that. Israel’s performance at the CNN town hall was even more shamefully dodgy when considering it’s likely that he already knew one of his deputies had done nothing to stop the shooter at the scene. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Socialism. Where the apparatchik is always untouchable and the people are always the casualty. Welcome to the U.S.S. |
| Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 2018-02-28 20:48 |
| #9 criminal negligence - (law) recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-02-28 16:46 |
| #8 I still say this is NOT just an unfortunate string of events leading to a mass shooting. Cruz did everything except put a neon sign on his house proclaiming his intentions. Police ignore warning signs and multiple threats on line, in person, and on every social media platform in the galaxy. First responders are told to stand down and wait for the SWAT team and all of their pretty gadgets. Sheriff is calling for gun control while they are still bringing the dead and wounded out of the school. Media seems to have a completely scripted response and puts the usual anti gun/disarm the citizenry spin out within minutes of the first announcements of the shooting. If I wasn't so paranoid about the left, I would say this was almost orchestrated. I wonder what triggered the kid? He's been simmering for weeks, something set him off. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-02-28 14:18 |
| #7 How many different forms of fraud are we dealing with here? I'm sure the insurance companies are thrilled to find out the stats were manipulated to make a dangerous work environment appear safe. By not expelling students they receive more education money on account of attendance. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-02-28 13:31 |
| #6 a wake-up call around the nation. ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-02-28 13:12 |
| #5 The Sheriff is a liberal politician impersonating law enforcement. I wonder how common this sort of thing is and hope this is a wake-up call around the nation. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-02-28 10:34 |
| #4 We changed SOP 10 years ago to rush the target because they had no reasoning when people are getting chopped to bits. Israel figured it out 40 years ago. These guys are just democrat tide pods. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-28 07:05 |
| #3 The more to this story is even more horrid. It is as if this political actor all but beat a path for this psychopath directly to do this through inaction. And there is more, much much more. Fine. Don't resign and let US pick this bullshit to the bone and every actor and in-actions and I will start to draw up charge sheets of Mis-fesance. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-28 07:03 |
| #2 There is likely more to this sad story. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-02-28 06:29 |
| #1 I am offended by this man and his graft train. It serves no purpose but to bear false witness and destroy protections. This piece of shit provided nothing for the very high paying jobs they hold and provided no function but a backrest for the Moslem brotherhood, communists, and democrats. It is a plastic badge they all bought and people are dead for it. Fuck you, your whole department, and the Mayor. Also, that school turns out some very stupid people and you can burn that entirely to the ground too. You are all silly people, all the way up and down the chain. None are Adults. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-02-28 00:07 |