Word: broward
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There were witnesses, but Knighton persuaded them to tell police that Schanell had been injured in a drive-by shooting. He ordered her 15-year-old sister (also pregnant) to hide his gun in a plastic bag full of baby toys. As he rode to Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale with Schanell and her mother, he told attendants that he was a friend of the family and had nothing to do with the girl's injuries...
Many police departments have welcomed this deluge of attention. TV exposure, they reason, helps get out the message that cops are human too. "People used to think law enforcement was like Dirty Harry or Miami Vice," says Nick Navarro, sheriff of Florida's Broward County, north of Miami. "Shows like Cops let the American people see what the police are really like." John Cosgrove, a Kansas City, Kans., patrolman who was accompanied by a Cops crew on his midnight shift for two weeks last summer, enjoyed the experience. "Most officers would be apprehensive to have the media ride with them...
...seems to have a positive impact on police egos, however. Navarro, the Broward County sheriff, has become something of a celebrity from his appearances on Cops; he has been criticized in the local media for taking too many trips to promote the show. The lure of Hollywood money is also hard for cops to resist. In Florida's "Damsel of Death" case, in which Aileen Wuornos was accused of killing seven men who picked her up on the highway, three police investigators reportedly made an arrangement with Wuornos' lesbian lover to share in a TV-movie deal even before...
Kathy Willets loved her work. But there were some very nervous men in southern Florida last week after Broward County Judge John Frusciante decided to release her client list. The 33-year-old Tamarac woman claims she treated her nymphomania by sleeping with dozens of strangers -- for fees ranging from $50 to $150 -- while her husband Jeffrey, a suspended sheriff's deputy, secretly watched from a bedroom closet and took notes...
Rodriguez's supporters believed he was being cruelly persecuted because he is a Nicaraguan refugee who speaks no English. They noted that none of 82 similar incidents in Florida during the past four years have been prosecuted, including a March accident involving a white youngster in Broward County who remains in a coma. Others contended that prosecuting Rodriguez was the best way to prevent tragedies in the future. Florida officials had hoped that by making people feel Rodriguez's pain and imagine what it would be like to lose a small child, parents would be more prudent. Perhaps in that...