Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Sandford, Florida Police Department

If the Sanford, Florida police department rallied against the 'Stand Your Ground' law, but the
state legislature passed it anyway; the police are not exactly complicit for feeling unable to enforce previous laws compromised by the new one. Have they been saying to lawmakers that they were and would be mired in details of the new law?
States and municipalities are cutting police forces and their resources.
So if the state legislatures are passing laws which cause serious crimes to triple, even over objections of police and prosecutors, then police are unwittingly complicit by failing to investigate
crimes which have overwhelmed their best enforcement efforts. I don't see that always as willing
negligence, especially if the department has been communicating to the legislature that serious
crime was being continually abetted by this new law. Has that happened in Sanford?
There is no reason for police to attempt enforcement anyway, if their prosecutors have trumpeted a hobbling by this 'Stand Your Ground' thing, and prosecutors report being unable to try the arrested.
As far as I can tell, some prosecutors have been long and strong on delivering just that message to
lawmakers who were not in  moods to listen.
So police and prosecutors, having thrown in the towel of ineffective methods, have more than likely already told legislators that sooner or later, one of the murders birthed by their bloody
law, would be on their lawmaker heads... in their legislating laps.
Whereas the police and prosecutors will now surely be investigated; who is going to hold feet to
 fire for the votes in the Florida legislature, and the Governor of Florida, who knew this new
'Stand...' obscenity had been causing, and would continue to cause senseless, mindless, unanswered, bloodshed. Oh...that would be Governor Jeb Bush and cronies...not at all a surprising legacy, aye?

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