PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Who oversees the police is a central question under scrutiny at the state level.
Currently, an alphabet soup of several agencies have roles in that, and in some South Florida cities, so do independent civilian panels that were put in place to foster trust in the community that the fox is not watching the henhouse.
But a state bill would do away with and ban those civilian panels.
Rodney Jacobs is the Executive Director of Miami’s Civilian Investigative Panel and Steadman Stahl is the President of the South Florida Police Benevolent Association representing police in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.
Both men joined This Week in South Florida host Glenna Milberg to discuss, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.