Off-Duty Police officers in Fort Lauderdale: What you may not know..
Last week, I wrote about a conversation I had with Sgt. Frank Sousa (of the Chief’s office in the Fort Lauderdale Police Department) regarding off-duty police activities. They had been providing off-duty police protection to Attorney Rothstein before the bubble burst about the alleged Ponzi-scheme. [...]
Attorney Scott Rothstein and his Fort Lauderdale police security detail
It’s disappointing when we see an attorney use his private client contacts for personal gain (allegedly…). But the story about Rothstein hiring Fort Lauderdale police officers (versus private security) for his “round the clock” security detail was interesting to me, so I dug a little deeper. [...]
It seems as though the Police Department here in Fort Lauderdale has been getting a lot of scrutiny over the last few weeks. I believe everyone by now knows that we can do a lot more to tighten up the Department’s costs. So here’s another issue that our City Commission should be tackling-
According to an [...]
TO:
Mayor Jack Seiler (jack.seiler@fortlauderdale.gov)
Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom (crodstrom@fortlauderdale.gov)
Commissioner Romney Rogers (rrogers@fortlauderdale.gov)
Commissioner Bobby DuBose (bdubose@fortlauderdale.gov)
Commissioner Bruce Roberts (broberts@fortlauderdale.gov)
FROM:
Earl Rynerson (earl@abetterftlauderdale.com)
SUBJECT: Fort Lauderdale’s 2009/2010 Budget
I know that you as a Commission will start to be making some tough decisions in June about what our new budget will be looking like for 2009/2010. I wanted to share some suggestions [...]