<h1 class="entry-title">Category: NEPBA Police Updates</h1>

Flakka use sharply down in Fla. after crisis

By Tonya Alanez Sun Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –– Nearly as quickly as flakka burst onto South Florida’s street-drug scene, the designer drug has faded from the local landscape. Since cresting last summer and fall, flakka-related fatalities, emergency-room cases, arrests and admissions to drug treatment centers have significantly decreased, experts say and data show. “Nobody […]

The thin blue line: A symbol of heroism, not corruption

Author: Ed FlosiThe “thin blue line” is an internationally recognized phrase that provokes different emotions and thoughts depending on who is listening. I remember attending the police academy way back in the 1980s listening to one of the instructors talk about the term. As he spoke, his tone of voice became somewhat hushed – as […]