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DEI Commissioners
The Town of Pembroke Park has taken the unprecedented step of firing its second police chief in just six months. The sudden firing of top cop Ra Shana Dabney-Donovan has shocked the community, leaving people uncertain and worried. Was Chief Dabney-Donovan a DEI hire? Or was she a qualified candidate who became a victim of politics and a Jankey commission?
Before creating its police department on February 1, 2023, the Town’s commissioners released (BSO) the county’s sheriff deputies on September 30, 2022. For 42 years, the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) provided service to the residents of Pembroke Park.
Pembroke Park Commission antics give the appearance that the City of Opa Locka moved from Miami Dade County north into Broward County. Not since the ’90s and 2000s, when the dusty City of Opa Locka changed its Chief of police like dirty drawers — has there been such whiplash action? Well, of course, except in the City of Miami.
Pembroke Park Commissioners, The Town’s Clowns
Chief Ra Shana Dabney-Donovan had only been on the job for four months when Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs summoned the Chief to the Commissioners’ chamber.
Geoffery demanded the Chief perform a search of Commissioner Ashira Mohammed’s purse for a gun. Jacobs had also called 9-1-1 to file a false complaint. They would later charge Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs with misusing the 9-1-1 system.
Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs claimed Commissioner Mohammed had a gun. The Chief reluctantly searched for the invisible weapon. She turned Muhammed’s purse upside down before the commissioners’ dais. The Chief did not find a gun in Mohammed’s purse.
The only other South Florida city that often comes close to changing out its chiefs of police is the City of Miami.
The carnages of the City of Miami and Opa-Locka usually stem from corruption. Pembroke Park’s issue lies mainly in an incompetent commission of debutantes and drama queens.
In a past commissioner’s meeting, Commissioner Mohammed advised Geoffrey Jacobs to seek mental help.
Three months later, these two peas in a pod, Mohammed and Jacobs, joined forces to end Chief Dabney Donovan’s career.
The Chief Is Corrupt?
Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs accuses Chief Dabney Donovan of illegal behavior. He’s also alleging that she misused grants. It was in November 2023 that Jacobs also accused his fellow hysterical commissioner, Mayor Ashira Mohammed, of having a gun. Commissioner Jacobs alleged that Mayor Ashira Mohammed had a gun and that he feared for his safety.
Yet Mayor Ashira Mohammed joined him to get rid of the Chief. Behavioral scientists must study the water they drink in Pembroke Park’s commissioners’ chambers.
According to the police,
because Commissioner Jacobs filed a false police report about the Mayor having a gun, the S.A. charged Jacobs with misuse of the 911 system.
Is the Chief corrupt? The allegations floating around town are about a corrupt chief. At least four of the five commissioners said Ra Shana Dabney-Danovan is corrupt. “She turns a blind eye to citizens’ complaints of police brutality.”
Chief Ra Shana A. Dabney Donovan’s Pedigree
Dabney Donovan is a retired police captain from the Town of Pembroke Park’s sister city, Hallandale Beach. She rose through the ranks. Dabney-Donovan started her career as a Community Service Aide for the City of Hallandale Beach. She was the first city of Hallandale Beach African American female police officer. After a twenty-three-year career, she hung up her shield until Pembroke Park called.
A Very Jankey Commission
The sudden firing of Chief Dabney Donovan should not come as a surprise. These sudden sneaky attacks are the modus operandi of the Town’s Jankey commissioners. In December 2023, the elected DEI commissioners pulled a similar surprise attack on their first Police Chief, David Howard.
Chief Howard learned about his termination when he saw it on the Commissioner’s agenda. Chief Howard helped develop and launch Pembroke Park’s Police Department on February 1, 2023. The department fired him by December 2023.
Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs — a former cop — who was the Town’s Mayor at the time of Howard’s firing, wants to run the police department. Commissioner Geoffrey Jacobs is a duplicate of the City of Miami Commissioner Joker Rollo’s image — perhaps not as corrupt.
The residents of Pembroke Park deserve better.
“Every person gets the government they deserve.” Joseph de Maistre. Maistre’s sentiment is genuine to a certain extent. It also indicates that citizens must participate in their political leaders’ selection process.
The current Mayor, Ashira Mohammed, is a ridiculous, hysterical sideshow. Vice Mayor Eric Morrissette likes to play good cop, bad cop with Geoffrey Jacobs. Morrissette was the only one who voted to keep Chief Dabney Donovan.
He’s a farce. Upon firing the Chief, Morrissette stated, “If we keep firing chiefs, no one will come to work for us.” The Commissioner already found someone to work for them — Wendy Morse.
Morse brings 25 years of law enforcement experience to her new post. Is Wendy Morse a friend of Commissioner Rabid Jacobs? Will she be his puppet? Follow the money.
Commissioner Musfika “Mishu” Kashem is a listless tumbleweed. She goes along with the majority. Anywhere the wind blows personality.
Commissioner William R. Hodgkins is there for the power trip, which is not unlike Jacobs’ reason for being there. Hodgkins pretends to support Chief Dabney Donovan. However, he’s not unlike Jacobs. The only difference is Jacobs is rabid. He’ll bite anyone at any time for a made-up “reason” in his mind.
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