While the Leftist are exploiting the Parkland Massacre in a Broward
County Florida high school for gun control, more and more indications the
Broward County Sheriff Department (BCSD) was so derelict in procedural
management that this police department is quite probably responsible for 17
murdered individuals and some wounded.
Legal Insurrection shares what it knows to date. I am
guessing more details are forthcoming.
JRH 2/28/18
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What in the world is going on with the Broward County
Sheriff’s Department?
February 27, 2018 9:14pm
The more we find out, the worse this gets
The latest Florida school shooting is not just tragic, but
as one reader pointed out, atrocious. Atrocious because every law enforcement
agency involved ignored eleventy billion (approximately) red flags.
As more information becomes available, it’s looking more and
more like there are some serious problems within the Broward County Sherrif’s
[sic] department. We’ve chronicled several of those here, here,
and here.
The failure of the designated school officer to engage the
shooter (he’s now defending himself, saying he believed the shooting was
happening outside of the school), then the revelation that four officers sat
outside during the bloodbath, EMT’s who weren’t
allowed to enter the school and begin working to save the
wounded, and that’s just the beginning of what’s turning into an all-out
scandal.
Most recently, Buzzfeed reported, based on dispatch records
they obtained, that the number of calls to the Cruz home was double
that disclosed by the BCSD. Most of the calls not mentioned by
the BCSD were for domestic disturbance issues, fights between Cruz and his
brother, or the like. Nonetheless, they were not included in reports and
records released by Broward County.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel refuses to resign and
blames the officer on duty for his failure to engage the shooter:
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel refusing to resign telling @nbc6: "I gave him a gun. I gave him a badge. I gave him the training. If he didn’t have the heart to go in, that’s not my responsibility." Clip from our one-on-one interview below. #DouglasHighSchool pic.twitter.com/FV5Gn0ZEBY— Erika Glover 🎥 (@ErikaGloverNBC6) February 25, 2018
As heat on the department has intensified, the Broward
County Sheriff’s office strongly encouraged all employees to “stand as one”
against a “flurry of media allegations.”
Letter from the Broward County Sheriff's Office obtained by @FoxNews' @IngrahamAngle urges employees to vigorously defend embattled Sheriff Scott Israel. pic.twitter.com/slQ9RCefsc— Debra Heine (@NiceDeb) February 27, 2018
For several days, a story suggesting Broward County softened
policies against juveniles has made its way around the
internet. This story
alleges the Broward County Sheriff’s Department was in cahoots
with the Broward County School District. An arrangement of some kind was made
wherein BCSD would go easy on minors in order to artificially inflate crime
statistics, helping both the department and the school district to obtain grant
money.
The nagging question here: why didn’t Broward County
officials take repeated warnings about Cruz seriously? This theory may provide
some context.
Whether or not this theory is true, we don’t know. What we do know
is that according to a handful of experts, Cruz could have faced charges well
before he went on a murder rampage had Broward County handled his case
differently or even handled his case like other departments in the area.
From the Miami
Herald:
His troubling behavior gave law
enforcement plenty of opportunities to investigate and arrest him — and even
take away his guns — long before he shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland last week, according to interviews with former South Florida
prosecutors and legal experts.
In recent years, South Florida
police detectives have arrested a slew of young men in unrelated cases who
exhibited similar, troubling behavior on a variety of charges. Cops took them
seriously.
It never happened with Cruz.
“There’s no doubt there was a
failure,” former Miami-Dade prosecutor Marshall Dore Louis said of how law
enforcement handled tips about Cruz. “The idea that they were aware of it and
could do nothing is absurd. … We can’t let this happen again.”
…“The standard isn’t whether that
information itself was ‘arrestable’ but whether law enforcement had an
obligation to investigate a violation of the law,” said John Priovolos, a
former Miami prosecutor. “A detective should have been assigned. Subpoenas should
have been sent to Instagram to locate the IP address and verify it was Cruz.
“Cruz could have been arrested —
maybe he would have been diverted to a mental-health court, but he would have
been under some sort of supervision.”
Even if a case couldn’t have been
made, the teen might have been placed squarely on the radar of police analysts
who monitor potentially dangerous people who post online, Priovolos said.
“At the very least, the most
capable intelligence detectives should have been monitoring him,” Priovolos
said.
But none of that happened. And now 17 people are dead.
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