Posted on 05/02/2013 12:09:35 PM PDT by lowbridge
Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw may soon receive $1 million from the state of Florida to set up a new violence prevention unit, but his recent comments encouraging people to turn in their neighbors are causing a firestorm.
“We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him,” Bradshaw told The Palm Beach Post. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’ ”
“How are they possibly going to watch everybody who makes a comment like that? It’s subjective,” said Liz Downey, executive director of Palm Beach County's National Alliance on Mental Illness. “We don’t want to take away people’s civil liberties just because people aren’t behaving the way we think they should be.”
However, Senate budget chief Joe Negron (R) said he “got assurances from the sheriff that this is going to be done in a way that respects people’s autonomy and privacy, and that he makes sure to protect against people making false claims.”
“We know how to sift through frivolous complaints,” stated Bradshaw.
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they don’t have the man power to even start to deport the 20-30m illegals... but they no problem knocking on all the doors to intimidate people that are against big govt
Is he elected or appointed?
Looks like I hit a nerve. I made two responeses on te tread. The moderator removed both. One was the one you responded to. This one may be removed also.
Betty?
I don’t have a problem with you dropping the dime on her but, leave Wilma out of this...
Heil Bradshaw!
It is past stupid. It is sickening.
In the past we had gun control. Someone murdered another someone and his/her ass was propmtly hung or electrocuted. Someone robbed someone using a gun and his ass was put on the chain gang posthaste and forgotten about. But as we became more civilized.....
Yep! And most here don’t have the intelligence to realize it. The term,”mentally ill” means exactly what the term, “territotial emperative” means which is what the user says it means.
If you buy it from a dealer, it is already registered.
After.
Yes, Rush lives in Palm Beach County.
Why he does not move up the coast to a more conservative county...I don’t know
Security is tight around the gated waterfront mansions of the liberal swells. They are catered to by local law enforcement....and the local LE is remembered liberally at Christmas in return.
Sprinkled among the beach and yachting estates of the limousine libs are undoubtedly a number of obscene conservative capitalists also enjoying la dolce vita.
I think Mr. and Mrs. Rush are living in just the right place for them. I cannot see them as ostentatious.
Leni
Spoken like a true fascist, Ric.
I will save the good sheriff some time by stopping by the Department to express my hatred of government in person.
Threatening to shoot someone can get one into serious trouble.
I hate the government
so come and get me
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