Any new Sanford police chief will face a divided city
Sanford is searching for an outsider to temporarily run its troubled Police Department, and whoever takes the job will face a deeply divided community and little time to build trust, criminal-justice experts and community leaders say.
On one side are those demanding the firing of police Chief Bill Lee, who stepped aside temporarily after a storm of criticism over the way his department handled the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. On the other side are residents many of them police officers who support Lee and want to see him return.
And in the background are long-standing complaints of police racism and recent scandals involving officers.
"Any interim [police] chief coming into Sanford is certainly going to face challenges," said Kenneth Adams, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Central Florida. "He will have to deal with a community that is very divided, so it will become a challenge to bring them together in such a short time."
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-04-29/news/os-sanford-police-chief-trayvon-martin-20120429_1_brian-tooley-chief-bill-lee-interim-police
Just my opinion but the entire county needs to clean out their police departments and City Manager positions and hire Mr. Tibbs. And then they need to clean out their City Attorneys and hire Matlocks.