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Why does Sheriff Israel's office has jurisdiction over EVERY fucking thing in Broward?
Schools, airport, shipping port
Unbelievable
One corrupt sheriff, one quickly growing corrupt town
Everything from that county stinks to high heaven
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1998-03-07-9803060569-story.html
Good lord. This is from 20 years ago. The cancer is toxic by now:
March 7, 1998
Port Everglades is wide open to drug smugglers, cargo thieves – even terrorists.
Federal drug agents warn that if Broward County commissioners and port officials don't do something soon to beef up security, the booming seaport could turn into a criminal cesspool and public safety hazard.
"It's the Wild West out there," said Bill Biossat, resident agent in charge of Customs' investigative unit at Port Everglades. "The place is wide open. We have to get it under control."
Federal agents used Friday's drug conspiracy indictment of 14 private security guards and unionized longshoremen to highlight the depth of the port's problems. They want to pressure Broward County commissioners and port officials to fix them.
The same officials from the U.S. Customs Service, Coast Guard and Drug Enforcement Agency, working in concert with U.S. Rep. E. Clay Shaw, R-Fort Lauderdale, pressured Miami-Dade County to install armed security guards and require criminal background checks for all unionized dockworkers at the Port of Miami.
The result: Miami's drug seizures, especially inside jobs perpetrated by corrupt port workers, are on the decline, and Port Everglades has become what Shaw calls the new "port of least resistance."
Compared to Miami, Port Everglades is a much larger security headache.
Miami's cargo area is contained to Dodge Island, with one way on and off the property and easy spot inspections.
Port Everglades, by comparison, is a wide open racetrack.
Three main roads _ one a major interstate highway _ lead to and from the 1,919-acre Port Everglades tract. There are no guard gates.
A drug runner can drive up to a container, toss two duffel bags filled with cocaine into his trunk and be headed westbound on Interstate 595 in less than four minutes.
Add poor lighting, limited surveillance cameras and the worst _ easy dockside access.
Parking near docks has encouraged "rip 'n' run" drug smuggling and cargo theft by corrupt stevedores. Surveillance agents have even seen taxis drive right up to a freighter and remove several large bags of suspected contraband.