



2. I spent about 18 months in 2012, 2013 and 2014 investigating Broward and Miami-Dade school policies and how those policies transfer to law enforcement practices.

3. My interest was initially accidental. I discovered an untold story of massive scale and consequence as a result of initial research into Trayvon Martin and his High School life.

4. What I stumbled upon was a Broward County law enforcement system in a state of conflict. The Broward County School Board and District Superintendent, entered into a political agreement with Broward County Law enforcement officials to stop arresting students for crimes.

5. The motive was simple. The school system administrators wanted to "improve their statistics" and gain state and federal grant money for improvements therein.

6. So police officials, the very highest officials of law enforcement (Sheriff and Police Chiefs), entered into a plan.

7. As soon as Miami-Dade began to receive the benefits (political and financial) from the scheme, Broward County joined on. The approach in Broward was identical as the approach in Miami-Dade.

8. It's important to remember, this was not an arbitrary change - this was a well-planned fundamental shift in the entire dynamic of how teenagers would be treated when they engaged in criminal conduct.

9. The primary problem was the policy conflicted with laws; and over time the policy began to create outcomes where illegal behavior by students was essentially unchecked by law enforcement.

10. Initially the police were excusing misdemeanor behaviors. However, it didn't take long until felonies, even violent felonies (armed robberies, assaults and worse) were being excused.



11. The need to continue lowering the arrests year-over-year meant that increasingly more severe unlawful behavior had to be ignored. Over time even the most severe of unlawful conduct was being filtered by responding police.

12. We found out about it, when six cops blew the whistle on severe criminal conduct they were being instructed to hide. The sheriff and police Chiefs were telling street cops and school cops to ignore ever worsening criminal conduct.

13. The police were in a bind. They were encountering evidence of criminal conduct and yet they had to hide the conduct. There were examples of burglary and robbery where the police had to hide the recovered evidence in order to let the kids get away without reports.

14. The police would take the stolen merchandise and intentionally falsify police records to record stolen merchandise *as if* they just found it on the side of the road.

15. They put drugs and stolen merchandise in bags, and sent it to storage rooms in the police department. Never assigning the recovery to criminal conduct. Stolen merchandise was just sitting in storage rooms gathering dust.

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So we now know that the school SRO, in addition to 3 more Broward County Deputies, were on scene and failed to enter the building. The neighboring police agency, Coral Springs, sent more than 130 officers. When their officers arrived they were stunned to see the 4 deputies hiding behind their cars. The CS Officers ran past them and entered the building, saving 20 students who were injured / wounded.The Sheriff of Broward county blamed the NRA for the shooting on CNN. He blamed the NRA knowing full well his deputies failed to perform their duties.It now looks like there was a problem created by the Public Schools, several Police Chiefs and the Sheriff. In an effort to attract more funding a scheme was developed that essentially established a quota system for student crimes. Once a certain number of incidents were reached any other crimes were handled "off the books" so they would not interfere with the reporting stats. This scheme showed a reduction in crime by 60%. This scheme also started more than 5 years ago.The problem here is the criminal elements in the community figured it out and started using students to commit their crimes knowing the charges and evidence would be taken care of. They also figured out to commit the crimes near the end of the month when the quotas would be reached. Apparently SRO's were assigned based on how well they are able to be creative with the crimes they encountered and how well those crimes were covered up. As this went on crimes started becoming more frequent and violent. At the same time SRO's were given perks, like paid housing close to the schools they were assigned to.This plays into why the shooter in this case seemed to have slipped thru the cracks. A reporter was initially tipped off to the scheme of hiding evidence and quashing arrests and this reporter initially thought the tip was bunk. As he researched the claims he found the evidence that confirmed what the tipster was telling him. By the time he was done he had signed affidavits from several police officers who knew what was going on. When he took it to the school board the said they would look into it.Since the school board was involved with the scheme, by way of adopting the unofficial policy on handling student arrests, the information never went anywhere else. It is looking more and more likely this shooting occurred as a result of that unofficial and illegal policy. The thought process is the reason the Sheriff blamed the NRA was because he knows if investigators outside of his control start looking into things they are going to find the scheme and connect the dots. This scheme also encompasses Miami-Dade as well.Click link above for complete walk thruLinks below give some background to what is being discussed - See the link above for all links to sources* - Broward County Florida Schools Institute The “Trayvon Martin Standard” For Student/Police Avoidance…. * - COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT ON SCHOOL DISCIPLINE THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into as of this 5 day of November, 2013, by and between THE SCHOOL BOARD OF BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA It is an interesting read and very plausible, imo anyways. As for the public schools and crime I do believe they have this unofficial policy in place. I have encountered the same issue when I was in law enforcement. While they did not use quotas or hide / destroy evidence they did go out of their way to keep the students from entering the judicial system so they did not have to include those stats on their state reporting forms.ETA - There are call logs floating around from the Sheriff's department detailing calls to this kids address in addition to info being forwarded to the school SRO about his activities and issues. When the sheriff tried to shut down that point at the CNN debate he, again, knew the specifics of the calls, who was involved in those calls, how the calls were closed by officers (reports / info forwarded / etc etc).