DeSantis's $13.5M police program lures officers with violent records to Florida

[dalton99a]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/22/ron-desantis-police-relocation-violent-records

DeSantis’s $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida
Governor’s incentive scheme recruits officers with history of excessive violence or who have been arrested since signing up
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Mon 22 May 2023 15.39 EDT

Numerous police officers lured to new jobs in Florida with cash from Governor Ron DeSantis’s flagship law enforcement relocation program have histories of excessive violence or have been arrested for crimes including kidnapping and murder since signing up, a study of state documents has found.

DeSantis, who is expected to launch his campaign for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination this week, has spent more than $13.5m to date on the recruitment bonus program, which he touted in 2021 as an incentive to officers in other states frustrated by Covid-19 vaccination mandates.

“This will go a long way to ensuring we can have the best and the brightest filling our law enforcement ranks,” Florida’s Republican attorney general, Ashley Moody, said in April last year as DeSantis announced one-time $5,000 bonuses for new recruits.

However, among the almost 600 officers who moved to Florida and received the bonus – or were recruited in state – are a sizable number who either arrived with a range of complaints against them, or have since accrued criminal charges, the online media outlet Daily Dot has discovered.

They include a former trainee deputy with the Escambia county sheriff’s office charged with murdering her husband; an officer with the Miramar police department fired for domestic battery and kidnapping; and a former member of the New York police department (NYPD) who was hired by the Palm Beach police department having once been accused of an improper sexual proposition.

That officer, named by the Daily Dot as Daniel Meblin, was also part of a $160,000 settlement by the NYPD for violence at a 2020 protest against the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in which officers were accused of beating Black males without provocation.

[LiberalFighter]

1. There needs to be a federal database of police officers.

Containing any unacceptable behavior that goes against national standards.

And any community or state that hires anyone that fails the standards will lose any federal tax dollars.

[NJCher]

8. yes, we need to show commitment

to fighting police brutality. We know what the problem is; we know that a certain percentage of officers are responsible for a large percent of the brutality incidents.

And any community or state that hires anyone that fails the standards will lose any federal tax dollars.

The database exists. All we would need to do is attach that to getting federal funds.

Excellent idea.

ps I think it's: https://policeviolencereport.org/

[Lovie777]

2. He's building his own army...............

I'm pretty sure the DOJ is watching.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

3. Just waiting for him to declare Florida an independent country,

where he will be named king.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yes this is what Russia/China are hoping. To see US states break away from the federal government.

US Civil War II.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

9. This is what those disinformation campaigns were all about.

This is what they have been trying to accomplish, to divide us up so much that they can swoop in and finish the job. And trump has enabled them every step of the way. His maggot followers are too blind and wrapped up in their hatred and bigotry to see it, and are handing us over.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yes Putin has been waging a psy-ops war against the US.

Using propaganda, and installing his puppets.
All without firing a shot.
He has been very sucessful.

Yes it was like taking candy from a baby.
Appeal to America's hatred, anger, racism.

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

12. Read Malcolm Nance's book,

"The Plot to Hack America." NAVY Senior Chief Nance, a counterintelligence expert, lays it all out and takes you step by step through the blueprint that putin created to disrupt the 2016 election and keep on going. This is the first of three books that Nance wrote about the dangers we faced with trump in the WH. I have read all three of his books and his ability to connect the dots and see where this was all going BEFORE it began is stunning in its clarity.

If you haven't read it, I suggest you find it and read it. Written in 2016, it is STILL mind-blowing.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Yes MN is really good.

I have been listening to his podcasts for some time on Stephanie Miller and other sites.

He connects the dots the same way I do, so of course I think he is a genius.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes his own gestapo and storm troopers.

[Marcuse]

6. Rape, Kidnaping, Murder and Rape.

[Golden Raisin]

7. 1-800-Brown shirts.

[eShirl]

11. ugh

[NowISeetheLight]

14. Commercial?

Maybe they should create a TV commercials for other states.

"Are you a licensed police officer? Do you have a history of civilian complaints? Have you harassed racial minorities, have you killed someone who was unarmed? Then Flori-duh wants you!".