Hollywood's Finest

Seems someone in the Police Dept. and the City of Hollywood, the Mayor for one, Chief of Police and others who are responsible for the quality of our Police Officers, the City Attorneys, whether in the Hiring process or the Evaluation of those wearing the Uniform, should be held responsible to ensure the Citizens that we have Mentally and Morally competent Police Officers on our Streets protecting our Citizens, not abusing those they come into contact with, nor misusing their Badge that they take an oath to Honor. The Residents should be able to trust and depend on their Police Officers. That is just a basic service when you are paying Taxes to the City. Everyone needs a competent Police Force to protect the Citizens from the Criminals. Something that i would assume is common place, yet is not common here.

Sounds like we need a good cleaning of our Police Dept. and our City Representatives. We need to fire those who are incompetent, corrupt, hire those who are willing to represent our City in Good Faith. We need to cut our losses and hire those who deserve to be Hollywood Police Officers whom we can trust. Those who can pass the Tests without all those red flags, not those who have been passed over at many other agencies or have questionable backgrounds.

Doesn't the City of Hollywood pay a decent salary and benefits to find and recruit those who are top choice, instead of the bottom of the barrel? I know we pay big tax bils, so where is the Money for our Police Dept.? Or is it just status quo that we have this ridiculous problem finding honest Police Officers to represent our Police Dept.? Or too many relatives, friends being hired instead of those who are actually competent?

It is up to the Chief and others, whose jobs our Tax money pay to serve the Citizens, to review these officers, make decisions if it is worth it to the City and the Residents to allow those deemed to be a risk, mentally or otherwise, to continue to Patrol our Streets. Since we have had several Lawsuits that has cost us the Taxpayers our hard earned money that should have gone to needed services, not to pay for their "risky behavior", that just proves to me our City of Hollywood and our Police Dept. doesn't care who is representing our Police Force nor if the Complaints are valid. Some of their psychological exams sound as if they are not fit to be wearing the Uniforms, much less carrying badges and guns to uphold the law.

The City of Hollywood is closing the County Parks on Veterans Day, raising fees, to show the Taxpayers that changes are in the wind because of the budget cuts, we will be doing without some things that we had before and paying more for others because of our Huge Property Tax cuts, that is a joke!! and meanwhile we are paying for the Officers Lawsuits while they continue to act irresponsible, possibly criminally and to continue as Police Officers.

Someone needs to get control of our City, do what is responsible, remove those who are costing the City our Tax dollars and then maybe we can afford to have our County Parks open on all Holidays and stop raising fees. We deserve to have our Police Officers on the Streets that are competent and worthy of wearing the Badge.

In your article it states that when the calls come in for Complaints of abusive behavior, they are pretty sure it is our Hollywood Police Dept. they are calling in to complain about. If that is the Case, why isn't someone trying to correct the Problems? Doesn't anyone care that we have more complaints of abuse than any other agency? I thought maybe that is why it is quiet here, the People are afraid of their own Police Dept., therefore the Citizens are not out causing any problems and the Criminals avoid the area. That is fine as long as they are following the rules of Law and not abusing or misusing their Badges to control the City because if that is the case, we will continue to pay for Lawsuits with our Property Taxes and will wonder if we should call 911 for help or just ignore what we see or hear. If you cannot trust your own Police Dept. to help you in an emergency, then all of us are in Trouble. Since the ones we hired to protect us are not, we need to clean house and vote to remove those in office whom we are paying to represent our City, replace them with ones we can trust and depend on to spend our Tax money wisely and discontinue the hiring of those who are not competent to be wearing a badge.