Category: Fort Lauderdale Police
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Dire need for COVID-19 shots adds urgency to Miami homeless advocates’ refrain
By Noreen Marcus FloridaBulldog.org Civil rights lawyers and activists are agitating for Miami police to stop disrupting homeless people by emptying their camps. It’s the same old song, but with a different meaning in a pandemic.
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Amid nationwide racial unrest, renewed interest in Broward’s most horrific miscarriage of justice
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org For more than a decade it’s been publicly apparent that Jerry Frank Townsend, a black man, was framed by Broward Sheriff’s Office, Fort Lauderdale and Miami police detectives who coerced him into confessing to nearly two dozen sex murders of African-American women and children that he didn’t do.
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Ft. Lauderdale police snooped on investigator helping FBI probe police corruption, suit says
By Dan Christensen FloridaBulldog.org The chief investigator for the Broward Public Defender’s Office sued Fort Lauderdale last week alleging that a city policeman impermissibly obtained his driver’s license records while he was helping the FBI investigate police corruption in the city.
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Broward prosecutors vilify BSO detective who alleged misconduct; ‘Bloody…not improper’
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org A Broward Sheriff’s homicide detective who reported that Fort Lauderdale police unleashed a dog on a murder suspect who was in custody and no longer a threat should not be believed, according to a memo by local prosecutors closing the case.
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Fort Lauderdale police didn’t follow rules when investigating one of their own
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org A Fort Lauderdale Police internal inquiry into the out-of-state arrest of a street crimes unit sergeant did not follow departmental procedures for conducting such investigations.