Posted on 02/25/2018 10:30:25 AM PST by Kaslin
Today on CNN’s State of the Union, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel slammed critics who have called for his resignation due to a massive failure on the police department’s part to take proactive measures that could have prevented the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting which lead to 17 innocent Americans being killed.
On one of the final questions in the interview, host Jake Tapper read state representative Bill Hager (R-Boca Raton) statement that said, “An investigation by Sheriff Israel into the unfathomable inaction of these deputies will do nothing to bring back the 17 victims the Sheriff was fully aware of the threat this individual presented to his communities and chose to ignore it.”
"What’s your response and will you resign?," Tapper asked.
“It was a shame- Of course, I won’t resign,” the sheriff responded with a defensive tone of annoyance.
“It was a shameful letter. It was politically motivated. I never met that man,he doesn’t know anything about me and the letter was full of misinformation. I wrote a letter back to the governor, I talked about all the mistakes that Hager made in his letter. It was a shameful, politically motivated letter, that had no facts and of course I won’t resign," he continued.
"Of course I won't resign," says Sheriff Scott Israel, after Florida state representative sends letter to Gov. Rick Scott calling for Israel's removal for "neglect of duty and incompetence" #CNNSOTU https://t.co/tQ0ai2G92p— CNN (@CNN) February 25, 2018
The fact that Rep. Hager has never met Sheriff Israel makes little to no difference in this story. Broward County’s Sheriff Department deputies visited the school shooter's home 39 times.There were 18 calls to the police from individuals fearful that the individual in question would one day actually shoot up a school.
One of those calls was heard by Deputy Scot Peterson. As Matt noted, "Peterson was the officer who waited outside of the building and failed to engage Cruz on the day of the shooting. The hooting lasted six minutes; Peterson remained idle for four minutes. He has since resigned after video footage caught him doing nothing as the rampage occurred at the school."
In any organization, leadership starts from the top. All of those facts indicate a serious failure of leadership by Sheriff Israel to protect and defend the public against an obvious threat to society. Yet, when asked about it, Sheriff Israel abdicated all responsibility.
.@browardsheriff to @jaketapper:
"I can only take responsibility for what I knew about... I've given amazing leadership to this agency... you don't measure a person's leadership by a deputy." #CNNSOTU— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) February 25, 2018
Most Americans hearing that would be dumbfounded by such an arrogant statement and at a loss for words. But leave it to Townhall's own Katie Pavlich to find the perfect word to succinctly summarize Sheriff Israel.
WOW: @browardsheriff says he has given “amazing leadership”
to the county and in the Parkland case overall. Delusional.— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) February 25, 2018
It may not have been Sheriff Israel's fault that the deputy did not go in to the school sooner. It may not have been his fault that the school shooter did not get the help he needed earlier in life. It surely was not his fault that the shooter pulled the trigger. But it is his responsibility to know exactly what is going on in his department and to train his deputies to be prepared at all times, to follow through on all threats to the public, and to protect innocents by making sure menaces to society are not in positions where they can actually hurt law-abiding citizens.
In light of risk of civil suit, even or especially one that is baseless and doomed to fail, he is much better on the job than off. The county is obliged to defend his actions and to pay any damages. He loses the free legal defense if he quits.
Does anyone know what Coward Peterson's political affiliation is? His actions don't seem to be those of a conservative.
The famous Admiral Borta - Tom Lantos endorsed resignation is in order.
We have Broward County to thank for some of the biggest buffoons ever witnessed. I hope the sheriff and Congressman Cowgirl and D-W, the spy enabler, can get together for a benefit sometime.
If he had any backbone he’d resign or pull a Warden Samuel Norton act, as was done in the 1994 prison film, “The Shawshank Redemption”!
Resign? In the Japan of a few years ago he would have committed seppuku.
Stop mixing federal & state.
Trump is not king! This is he Flroida Guv’s job, he has the authority. What happened is a state crime.
The left wants to make everything a federal crime!
Stop being like them!
Why limit your concerns to Broward County, Florida?
You can rest assured a Federal Grant Program that showers money around for NOT arresting criminals is super popular all around the country. This is happening nationwide.
It needs to stop.
Agreed, but the politics will not support his NOT resigning.
My guess is Hogg is concerned because focus is switching to incompetence on several levels instead of the “evil gun”
In light of the information about the 39 calls to the police, the notification to the FBI about the shooter, Cruz, I wonder how the parents, spouses, and families of the victims feel about this sheriff and are they speaking out???
He won’t resign, but he CAN be arrested.
“Reckless Disregard: An act of proceeding to do something with a conscious awareness of danger, while ignoring any potential consequences of so doing. Reckless disregard, while not necessarily suggesting an intent to cause harm, is a harsher condition than ordinary negligence.”
“Depraved Indifference: To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant’s conduct must be ‘so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on the risk created by the defendants conduct, not the injuries actually resulting.”
I’m just gobsmacked by his arrogance! A couple months ago he said something like, “The lion doesn’t care about what the sheep think.” Of course, HE is the lion.
Scott Peterson was named but not the other three. Anyone see related info.?
Homegrown Fl LIB...look at his ‘motto’, not all that bad an idea BUT how many ‘bums’ are on the street because of this publicized ‘nice guy policy.
Sorry, A strapping 6’3” weight-height proportioned officer in a striking uniform brings more respect to the common person than a 5’5” college grad who ‘sidles’ up to a car, gun drawn.
NO COP should ever be put in a position of where the ‘suspect’ has a chance to size up whether he can ‘take’ the Cop or not.
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Sheriff Scott Israel
Ft. Lauderdale Police Department: patrol officer, 1979-1980; narcotics detective, 1980-1986; special problems officer, 1986-1991; patrol sergeant, 1991-1993; street level narcotic sergeant, 1993-1995; narcotic unit sergeant, 1995-1996; patrol captain, 1996-1999; community policing captain, SWAT commander, 1999-2004; chief of police, North Bay Village Police Department, 2004-2008; elected Sheriff of Broward County, 2012; re-elected 2016.
“Our success will be measured by the number of kids we keep out of jail, not the number we put in jail.”
~ Sheriff Scott J. Israel
Fire him, save everyone the trouble of reading his resignation
I hope he doesn’t resign. I hope he’s dragged kicking and screaming down the hall and out the door, and thrown in the gutter.
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Yes he probably will:
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You’d think if people were going to protest with torches and pitch forks, it would be right down at the sheriff’s office. Maybe with tar, feathers and a fence rail to run him out of town with.
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