Myra Breckinridge @ 11:01 & 11:14 AM
Thank you for the address for the article about Chief Adderley at the South Florida Times, by Elgin Jones. http://www.sfltimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3838&Itemid=1
The acts and actions taken or not taken by the Chief of Police for the City of Fort Lauderdale show that he is a lawbreaker, whether or not he wants to admit to the knowledge of such activity.
He has tried to avoid being spotlighted for letting those under his command perform services for private citizen Rothstein. These activities included guarding that private person’s home and business. Two of Fort Lauderdale’s finest received a cut of the action for deploying members of the force, which the Police Chief seems to think should not be looked into by his office. That sure sounds like an enterprising part of the racket for these co-adventuring principals.
While many of the officers of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department served the criminal enterprise run by Rothstein, the taxpayers were fleeced. (It’s now known that Rothstein ran a criminal enterprise with his guilty pleas yesterday to money laundering and racketeering, among other charges.) These officers were paid to work off-duty details (when using cars and other indicia of authority of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department). In the meantime, other officers had to work overtime to fill in where these multitudes of officers could not serve. Those preparing for retirement got a bonus, as retirement pay is based on the moneys made during the last years of service, which would include those hefty overtime checks.
This was occurring when members of our communities became unemployed or saw their incomes fall, and while our communities called out for the police protection that our tax dollars are supposed to guarantee. The police were on the take while our young people were losing their way, with some becoming victims of homicides. Some of us became victims of violent crimes, or we were taken to the cleaners through fraud, with no thorough investigation that could have alleviated the situation.
Under Adderley’s watch, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department protected criminals, while arresting innocent victims under falsified reports of resisting arrest that have never been investigated. State Attorney Michael Satz merely shelves any report of a false arrest. So, no one can depend on his office. But, we never could anyway, could we?
Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, especially law enforcement in Fort Lauderdale and the law enforcers with the State Attorney should be ashamed. You know who you are!
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