In
its fiduciary role as a Crime Commission, through fact finding Probes, Studies,
Public Reports and Community Hearings, the Broward County Crime Commission will
refer information of potential criminality to the appropriate enforcement, regulatory
and legislative bodies.
The
Broward County Crime Commission advises and informs legislative bodies about
the potential dangers of legislative processes
that may cut Public Safety resources and budgets during times of economic distress. Through research dating back hundreds of
years, the Crime Commission has verified that during difficult economic times,
Public Safety budgets should actually be enhanced to handle the myriad of potential
new crimes and criminals that evolve in the wake of a burdening economy.
When necessary, the Crime Commission will conduct Community
Hearings with the principle of pondering legislative resolutions and
reforms to better assist law enforcement. The Crime Commission will gauge
public sentiment from the community about defined and potential criminal
wrong-doing and then document its hearing agenda for the public record.
Thereafter, the Crime Commission will debrief, and
make available its findings of the prescribed hearing, to the
Governor and other Federal, State and Local Legislature bodies, for potential
improvements in laws associated with public safety.
Finally, the
Crime Commission will recommend new laws and other legal remedies, to the
appropriate legislative bodies, that can better help law enforcement, so that
law enforcement can be allocated the optimum amount of resources, so that law
enforcement can be best and fully equipped, to better protect the citizens of
Broward County.
In
conducting public and private hearings, compiling testimony and producing evidence
through due diligence and research, since the Crime Commission does not have arresting
or prosecutorial functions, it is prescribed to refer information suggesting
possible criminal misconduct immediately to the appropriate regulatory and/or
enforcement authority.
This
includes but is not limited to the: FBI and other federal authorities, the
Attorney General’s Office, State Police, the County Prosecutors' Office, and
Local Police. The Broward County Crime
Commission values the assistance and cooperation of federal, state, county and
local law enforcement agencies, and compliantly forwards its findings onto
them.
