Category: Law
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Fort Lauderdale police don’t enforce law requiring checks on buyers at gun shows
By William Hladky
BrowardBulldog.org
An apparent misreading of state law by the Fort Lauderdale Police has kept officers from enforcing a Broward County ordinance that requires criminal background checks on gun buyers at gun shows. -
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Reversal of Fortune: A Prosecutor on Trial
By Raymond Bonner
Special to ProPublica
For 30 years, Ken Anderson was the face of law enforcement in Williamson County, Texas. Earlier this month, he walked into the courthouse again, this time as a defendant for helping to end an innocent man to prison. -
FBI records say Sarasota Saudis who fled home had “many connections” to individuals tied to 9/11
By Dan Christensen and Anthony Summers
BrowardBulldog.org
©2013 Broward Bulldog, Inc. A Saudi family who “fled” their Sarasota area home weeks before September 11th had “many connections” to “individuals associated with the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001,” according to newly released FBI records. -
Coconut Creek police probe of officer in bathtub Taser incident missed facts, short on answers
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
An internal police investigation of a Coconut Creek officer who pulled his Taser while interrogating a frightened theft suspect in a bathtub omitted relevant facts and did not follow department policy. -
Don’t ask, don’t tell at the Broward State Attorney’s Office
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward prosecutors who declined to charge a Coconut Creek policeman who pulled a Taser on a frightened theft suspect standing in a bathtub never asked the officer under oath why he hadn’t mentioned the incident in his police reports. -
Finkelstein to feds: “Please do something” about improper police interrogations in Broward
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Broward Public Defender Howard Finkelstein has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate what he called the Broward State Attorney’s “long, distressing history” of condoning police use of “threatening, improper interrogation techniques.”
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