Hat Tip, Laz...
Posted on 02/23/2018 1:21:26 AM PST by TigerClaws
A few points need to be emphasized for those unfamiliar with the Broward County system. First, with revelations of frequent LEO contact and calls from people warning about school shooter Nikolas Cruz, there’s a common narrative mistakenly being pushed by mainstream media.
(left to right) Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, Hillary Clinton, Broward County School Superintendent Robert Runcie
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO) didn’t “miss warning signs” or make “mistakes” in not writing up reports. The Sheriff’s office did exactly what their internal policies, procedures and official training required them to do, they intentionally ignored the signs, and intentionally didn’t generate documents. Example:
Miami Herald […] In November, a tipster called BSO to say Cruz “could be a school shooter in the making” but deputies did not write up a report on that warning. It came just weeks after a relative called urging BSO to seize his weapons. Two years ago, according to a newly released timeline of interactions with Cruz’s family, a deputy investigated a report that Cruz “planned to shoot up the school” — intelligence that was forwarded to the school’s resource officer, with no apparent result. (read more)
It is important to understand the policy here. Broward County law enforcement (Sheriff Israel), in conjunction with Broward County School Officials (Superintendent Runcie and School Board), have a standing policy to ignore any criminal engagement with High School students.
When the police are hiding current, actual and ongoing unlawful conduct as a matter of standard procedure on a regular basis, what do we expect the police would do with reports of potential unlawful conduct? Of course they would ignore them.
You can read a twitter thread on the multi-year-long enterprise HERE
This is not a “mistake” on their part, the ‘doing nothing’ is part of the standard practice.
♦ Secondly, the 27 minute tape-delay in the CCTV system is not an “accident”, “flaw” or “mistake”. It is entirely by design.
As a standard Broward and Miami-Dade practice, when school law enforcement need to cover-up or hide behavior, they need time (when that behavior happens) to delete the evidence trail. As such the school policy -as carried out in practice- is more efficient with a 30 minute tape delay affording the school officer enough time to deal with the situation, then erase the possibility of a recording of the unlawful activity surfacing.
Building in a 30 minute delay on the CCTV system was one of those pesky add-on items that happened a few years ago when the School and Law Enforcement officials established the policy of intentionally not arresting students.
With modern technology it’s tough to hide criminal behavior, especially the violent stuff, when it is being recorded. Duh. Ergo the tape-delay was the best-practice workaround.
Lastly, when the county education policy is intentionally constructed to ignore criminal behavior in schools, the Sheriff and School superintendent cannot rely on “law-and-order-minded” school police officers to carry out the heavily nuanced policy. The county officials need the people closest to the work, the officers, to be able to think quickly on their feet to safeguard their prized district-wide statistics.
2013 – Broward announced broad changes designed to mitigate the use of harsh punishments for minor misbehavior at the beginning of this school year. While other districts have amended their discipline codes, prohibited arrests in some circumstances, and developed alternatives to suspension, Broward was able to do all these things at once with the cooperation of a group that included a member of the local NAACP, a school board member, a public defender, a local sheriff, a state prosecutor, and several others. In early November, The Miami Herald reported that suspensions were already down 40 percent and arrests were down 66 percent. (2013 article link)
A Broward County SRO must carry a political hat and be able to intercept behavior, modify his/her action based on a specific policy need, falsify documents, hide evidence, manipulate records and engage inside the system with an understanding of the unwritten goals.
Broward County school law enforcement are given political instructions, and carrying out political objectives. They are not given law-enforcement instructions.
The school officers are the primary foot soldiers carrying out county political policy. Physical security of school students is not their role, they don’t have time for that. The Broward County SRO is in place to protect the school system “policy” and ensure students are not arrested for criminal conduct.
If you begin reviewing the downstream consequences with a correct understanding of the originating policy objectives then everything begins to make sense. Again, from the Miami Herald:
[…] on Nov. 30, an unidentified caller from Massachusetts called to say Cruz was collecting guns and knives. The caller said “Cruz will kill himself one day and believes he could be a school shooter in the making.”
BSO, however, never even wrote a report on the tip. Internal affairs detectives are now trying to figure out what happened. Deputies Edward Eason and Guntis Treijs are on restricted duty while detectives examine their handling of the two potential school shooter tips. After the shooting, the tipster was re-interviewed and said BSO told him to report Cruz to the Palm Beach Sheriff’s, as the teen was then living in the neighboring county. (read more)
Of course the Broward County Sheriff’s Office didn’t write a report. Writing a report would not be in line with the goals of hiding student criminal behavior.
Additionally, it seems odd to see the Miami Herald reporting on Nikolas Cruz in 2018; when the same editorial staff conspicuously avoided any aspects of Trayvon Martin’s student criminal behavior in 2012 and 2013. I wonder why there’s such a difference now?
I digress…
[School Police Officer Scot] Peterson is mentioned as part of a 2016 social services agency investigation into Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old identified by police as the gunman. According to a Florida Department of Children and Families report detailing that investigation, Peterson was approached by investigators and “refused to share any information … regarding [an] incident that took place with” the teenager.
That same year, the sheriff’s office revealed Thursday, it was told about “third hand information” from a “neighbor’s son” suggesting that Cruz “planned to shoot up the school,” although the specific school was not listed. The sheriff’s office said a deputy contacted the caller, determined that Cruz had knives and a BB gun and sent the information to the school resource officer — presumably Peterson. It is unclear whether he investigated. (Washington Post Link)
Libs want to take away our guns because of it.
Just another week of #FAKENEWS msm hysteria.
Hat Tip, Laz...
No, No! It’s the evil assault rifle!
Those student protestors were being played and used by the alliance between
a corrupt school system and corrupt Sheriff Israel.
Israel needs to go.
...to prison.
The SRO at the scene heard the shots inside but chose to "take up position" (hide behind a car) rather then enter the building and defend the kids inside.
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Broward County (Fla.) Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday that a deputy was at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while gunman Nikolas Cruz was shooting but “never went in,” even though the officer heard the gunshots and “clearly” knew a gunman was inside the school. Seventeen people died as a result of the shooting last week.
What I saw was a deputy arrive at the west side of building 12 take up a position, and he never went in,” Sheriff Israel said.
JUST IN: Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel says Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resource officer “never went in” to freshman building amid deadly Parkland shooting; “He should have went in. Addressed the killer. Killed the killer.”
he deputy, Scott Peterson, was suspended without pay and has since resigned.
“Devastated, sick to my stomach, there are no words,” Israel said.
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http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/22/deputy-never-went-in-school/
Was he waiting for the perp to run out of bullets!!!?!?!?
Disgusting behavior. Government dropped the ball on the Federal, State and County level.
It was determined that he made no attempt to enter the building to confront the shooter. Instead, the deputy shielded himself behind a concrete column near one of the stairway exit doors.
Apparently, the deputy has refused to make any statement concerning his actions and non-actions during the shooting.
Saw that and posted an article about it a few threads back.
Here’s some more info on Broward:
https://twitter.com/thelastrefuge2/status/966854507744374784
These people died because the whole system is corrupt down there. And I betcha’ they are lying about the FBI national call center, too. I’m thinking the call did get forwarded to Miami Field Office, but Broward policy shut it down at Miami FO and/or BSO.
I know they are taking heat right now, but it really is time for the good guys at FBI/DOJ to move in with a complete investigation.
Does this coward have a name?
Exactly.
FBI needs to move in and find out what happened. There’s footage of LEOs carrying a body bag away from the crime scene circulating. That’s odd.
The Deputy standing down and allowing the massacre to happen - contrary to ALL training now given to LEOs. Active shooter at a school training now is always engage immediately.
The tape delay system the school used. Why? To hide crimes?
Entire place is corrupt and they’re now using the dead bodies of the children (children dead due to their own incompetence) to abridge our 2nd Amendment rights.
“Never let a crisis go to waste.”
That reads like the guy from Conservative Treehouse, so I actually read all that years ago.
He did amazing work during the Trayvon Martin shooting.
My cousin works a couple a miles away from the shooting, and most of my family lived in Broward County during the 50s and 60s, but I have not visited since the 80s.
Sadly, for the most part cops are not there to protect your life, liberty and property.
They are there to draw a chalk outline around your body, write a report, and protect the murderer’s civil rights.
And above all, cover for the worst of their brotherhood no matter what.
“Sundance” who runs Treehouse posts here.
I’m not sure who “Last Refuge” is but that twitter feed consistently has good information.
Broward is 90%+ Dem voters in some areas. Looks like the shooting was caused by their own incompetence.
The Deputy who didn’t go in and try to stop the shooting was described as a military vet in one of the news stories. Guess you never know what people will do until the SHTF.
“Does this coward have a name?”
Scot Peterson according to the Sheriff. And he’s taking early retirement. The sheriff is also “protecting” this coward and his family because he’s getting death threats. From what I’ve read, the guy is a f*cking coward with a yellow stripe down his back.
Scott Peterson should be shunned by all decent people for the rest of his miserable, cowardly life.
He should be compelled to never go out in public without wearing a shirt with a broad yellow stripe down his back.
The ones who he failed should haunt his dreams and every waking moment.
AMEN!
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