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"Broward Sheriff Scott Israel in spotlight"
miamiherald.com
"Broward Sheriff Scott Israel.. After rising to the rank of captain and serving as SWAT team commander starting in 1999, he was hired by North Bay Village as police chief in 2004.
Losing first election
In 2007 he changed his voter registration from Republican to Democrat to run for Broward sheriff. He won a bruising five-way Democratic primary, but lost to Republican Sheriff Al Lamberti in 2008.
He was devastated, but his wife says he moved forward quickly.
'I didn’t answer my cellphone for a week. Scott answered the minute he found out — he never shut down,' she said. 'He was annoying me. I said, ‘Throw your cell phone in the lake.’ He said, ‘Susan, I lost, but don’t you think all the people that helped me, they lost too and they are devastated?’...
Losing humbled Israel. He took Lamberti on again in 2012.
This time he won, taking over the $700 million, 6,000-person agency that operates the jail and provides law enforcement to many cities as well as the airport...
Israel’s strength has been outreach, including to the black and gay communities. On the night that same-sex marriage became legal, Israel attended three weddings of BSO workers...
In 2013, when the Florida Sheriffs Association expressed support for the controversial Stand Your Ground law, Israel said he wanted legislative changes to more narrowly restrict the use of the law."
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