QuoteFlorida criminals have a well-earned reputation as some of the strangest in the country, possibly the world. But as the Escambia County Sheriff's Department demonstrated late last month, when it shot an unarmed man in his own driveway, it's not just Florida perps who are out of line. A number of the state's police and sheriff's departments are every bit as notorious for employing weird, backwards, and even criminal Floridians.
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1. Escambia County Sheriff's Department
2. Lakeland Police Department
QuoteSaying that the Lakeland Police Department is "facing a sex scandal" is sort of like saying the Titanic "faced an iceberg." An investigation that started earlier this summer after someone saw a Lakeland PD cop having sex with a colleague at a Lakeland church, has expanded to include 10 officers total, nine of whom are now out of a job. The woman with whom the officers stand accused of having on-the-job-sex, Sue Eberle, says she consented because she felt her career was on the line, and also because she'd been sexually abused as a child. The long-time Lakeland PD captain put in charge of investigating the network of consensual-or-maybe-not trysts "retired" after he was found to have used Eberle's phone to take a picture of his genitals. As if the department's internal affairs weren't bad enough, a dashcam video was recently released showing a Lakeland PD officer forcing a Lakeland resident to expose her breasts during a traffic stop.
3. Crestview Police Department
4. Miami Police Department
5. Lee County Sheriff's Department
6. Orange County Sheriff's Department
7. Opa Locka Police Department
full article: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/08/visitors-guide-floridas-most-notorious-law-enforcement-agencies/6583/