{"id":849,"date":"2025-10-14T00:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/849\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T00:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:08:11","slug":"pompano-beach-rethinks-bso-contract-amid-rising-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/849\/","title":{"rendered":"Pompano Beach rethinks BSO contract amid rising costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM<\/p>\n<p>Pompano Beach rethinks BSO contract amid rising costs <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POMPANO BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Pompano Beach is reconsidering its decades-long partnership with the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office as the cost of police services continues to rise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The city paid BSO $53 million in 2022, with costs projected to climb to $63 million by 2025. While the contract has been extended through September 2026, city commissioners are exploring other options \u2014 including bringing back a city-run police department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A community meeting on Saturday aimed to gather public input, but turnout was low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIf we\u2019re going to make a decision based on information from 10 people, it\u2019s very disappointing,\u201d said former state Rep. Patricia Williams, a local resident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Those who did attend voiced concerns about BSO\u2019s leadership and lack of connection with the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI think we need community policing, and the sheriff just doesn\u2019t understand our community anymore,\u201d said Vicente Thrower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMy issue isn\u2019t with the officers, it\u2019s with the leadership,\u201d added Jocelyn Jackson. \u201cIt\u2019s time for Gregory Tony to pass the baton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two virtual meetings are scheduled for Monday and Wednesday at 6 p.m. Other cities, including Deerfield Beach and West Park, are also considering a split from BSO.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM Pompano Beach rethinks BSO contract amid rising costs POMPANO BEACH, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}