Does this Sheriff ever say anything that makes sense?
In his interview with Broward County sheriff Scott Israel, Jake Tapper of CNN noted that in 2013 the local school board opted to pursue the “least punitive means of discipline” instead of arresting students for crimes.
“Were there not incidents committed by the shooter as a student,” Tapper asked, “had this new policy not been in place that otherwise he would have been arrested for and not able to legally buy a gun?”
“What you’re referring to is the PROMISE Program,” Israel responded, “And it’s giving the school the ability under certain circumstances not to call the police, not to get the police involved on misdemeanor offenses and take care of it within the school. It’s an excellent program. It’s helping many, many people.”
“What if he should be in the criminal justice system?” Tapper said. “What if he does something violent to a student? What if he takes bullets to school? What if he takes knives to schools? What if he threatens the lives of fellow students?”
“Then he goes to jail,” Israel said, to which Tapper responded, “But that’s not what happened with the shooter.” As the world knows, what happened was a mass murder that could have been prevented at several levels, starting with school.
When Pres Trump talked about ****holes, he most assuredly meant Broward County.