Deputy union claims ‘no confidence’ in Broward County sheriff

By Christen Smith

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. (Photo: Michele Eve Sandberg/Corbis via Getty Images)
A union representing 1,300 Florida cops took a “largely symbolic” vote this week against Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.
Some 584 members of a Florida chapter of the International Union of Police Associations — over 85 percent of those who turned out — cast ballots of “no confidence” Thursday, hoping the results would encourage Florida Gov. Rick Scott to suspend or remove Israel from office.
“He fails to listen to the people, he fails to listen to the leadership,” said Jeff Bell, president of the Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputies Association, per the Sun Sentinel. “Amazing leadership starts from the top, and there is no amazing leadership here. We are a ship out at sea with no power — adrift.”
Israel and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office faced intense criticism in the wake of the Parkland massacre after investigators revealed the agency made more than two dozen contacts with the admitted gunman over a period of several years, but never took serious action. School district officials and mental health counselors also failed to intervene, despite the shooter’s history of mental instability and behavioral issues.
Fourteen students and three teachers died Feb. 14 when a

Source: Guns.com