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| After chaotic handling of Parkland, terrorist airport mass shootings, Broward County Sheriff's Office loses accreditation |
| 2019-07-02 |
| A state panel has voted unanimously to revoke the law enforcement accreditation of the Broward Sheriff's Office, the largest sheriff's office in Florida. The loss of accreditation ‐ a voluntary certification sought by law enforcement agencies ‐ won't affect BSO's operations in a major way. But it is a further blow to the agency's prestige at a time when a new command staff, including a new sheriff, are dealing with a string of failures and questionable conduct by deputies. The Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation (CFA) cited BSO's mishandling of the Parkland school shooting last year and the Muslim convert Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport shooting in 2017 as reasons for its decision in a 13-0 vote last week. Both incidents were marked by chaotic and disorganized responses from the sheriff's office. Seventeen people died at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on Feb. 14, 2018, including some who were waiting for rescue as BSO deputies took cover, put on body armor and struggled to find the building where the massacre had taken place. Then-Broward Sheriff Scott Israel, defended his agency but was suspended from office by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. BSO was initially reviewed by a CFA assessment team in mid-December of 2018 and again in May 2019 after the release of a scathing state investigation into BSO's performance at Stoneman Douglas. The team found that BSO was in compliance with state standards and recommended that BSO be "favorably reviewed" by the CFA panel, according to documents reviewed by the Miami Herald. But the commission ‐ a governing body made up of sheriffs, police chiefs and other high-ranking officials from across the state ‐ voted to set aside that recommendation. Instead, it revoked BSO's law enforcement accreditation. See also: |
| Posted by:Snanter Unumble8629 |
| #3 Isn't it almost inevitable that big cities/institutions will trend to tighter controls? On a farm I can burn my garbage, but waste disposal gets much more complicated in a densely populated area--and one or two uncooperative people can mess things up badly for the rest. ==> more rules, more micromanaging ==> more statist And once you attract the folks who know better than everybody else, you find that they typically don't know when to stop managing you. Our breed of statists are allied with some pretty weird identity politics types, but I don't know that that that was inevitable or that it will be permanent. |
| Posted by: james 2019-07-02 13:47 |
| #2 Big picture is, we need some genius to discover a way to counteract the "leftists capture all institutions eventually" phenomenon. If large urban areas did not automatically tilt left, the world would be a very different place. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-07-02 10:10 |
| #1 That whole department needs burned to the ground and re-started from scratch. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2019-07-02 09:07 |