The South Florida Sun Sentinal newspaper has done a lot of very good reporting over the years detailing the travesty — the cascading series of failures at all levels — that was the Parkland shooting. Regarding the performance of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, they wrote about school resource officer and “Broward coward” Scot Peterson, … Read more
Following the change of control of Virginia’s legislature from red to blue, Democrats have been rushing to file gun control bills to be voted on and sent to an eager governor and signed into law. The bills include everything from an “assault weapons” ban to mandatory waiting periods to a red flag law to outright … Read more
By Kelli Kennedy and Frieda Frisaro, Associated Press Florida’s governor failed to justify suspending the sheriff whose department responded to mass shootings at a Parkland high school and the Fort Lauderdale airport, a state Senate official said. In a blow to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Senate special master Dudley Goodlette called for the reinstatement … Read more
From the Associated Press: The Florida sheriff who oversaw the response to the Parkland school shooting is fighting for his job in front of state lawmakers. Suspended Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel testified Tuesday during a state Senate hearing. Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended Israel three days after taking office in January, saying the response to … Read more
I’d like to preface this accounting of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High failures on Valentine’s Day 2018 with this reminder: no one is coming to save you; you are on your own. The South Florida Sun Sentinel has compiled a comprehensive and disturbing timeline of what happened — and didn’t happen — that day in Parkland. … Read more
The first reaction to this report that Broward County’s laughingstock of a chief law enforcement officer, Scott Israel is about to get the boot is…duh! Of course they’re going to get rid of him. He and his embarrassment of an operation bungled the run-up and the response to the Parkland school shooting in virtually every … Read more
“I am accountable to the citizens of Broward County. My job is to continue to do the job I was elected to do, which is to ensure the safety of Broward County’s 1.9 million residents. “I will not be distracted from my duties by this inconsequential IUPA union vote, which was designed to extort a … Read more
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