News published in Palm Beach Post from 2015: “Greenacres begins the merge process with PBSO”.

Now fast forward to 2018.

“[T]here is no debate about the result. Overall crime is down, and available law-enforcement resources are far better.”

—Quote. Editorial, published in Palm Beach Post on March 10th, 2018 just prior to municipal elections in Greenacres. For more about quote click on this link.

Now fast forward to 2019. . .

What more have we learned about the PBSO merge with a nearby municipality in 2015? Not much if you only read the Post. If you only get your news from the Post you would know very little about this very important law enforcement, public policy and public safety issue.

Worth noting is Greenacres in both land area and population is larger than Lake Worth Beach.

The editor(s) at the Post, other than a brief reference on the editorial page back in 2018, have thus far clumsily avoided updating the community about what happened and what is happening in the City of Greenacres following the merge with PBSO.

It is now over ten years since the merge occurred between PBSO and the former LWPD.

But hopefully that intransigence will end soon now that municipal election season is over and before the 2019–2020 Election Season heats up. But don’t hold your breath.

Soon after the merge between PBSO and the Greenacres PD, the Post pulled their beat reporter from Greenacres and began focusing all their attention on Lake Worth the City instead. You may recall the Lake Worth Very Very Special Monday Cursory Print Edition (LWVVSMCPE) began in late 2015.

And for over three years now on this blog have been encouraging the editor(s) at the Post to provide an update on the merge between the former Greenacres PD and PBSO. From a public policy and public safety perspective this would be very important information for policymakers and the public as well. But for some reason PBSO in Greenacres is not very worthy news.

Going forward this is a question that may eventually be put on the table by other villages, towns and cities in Palm Beach County: “Should we merge with PBSO or keep our own police department?”

For some municipalities this choice may make perfect sense. For others maybe not. But the public needs to be informed about the issue. 

What has happened in Greenacres since 2015 is most certainly a case example. 


“Training for the city’s officers should start after Thanksgiving, with them scheduled to shadow PBSO deputies in January.”

—Published in The Palm Beach Post, dated Nov. 12th, 2015.




So next Monday, for over three years now, will be another LWVVSMCPE published in the Post. And then followed by the same Special Cities for the rest of the week. All the very same Six Special Cities. For over three years.

Question: Aren’t you about ready for some serious public policy news from other cities in Central Palm Beach County?

Like maybe about PBSO in Greenacres?

Meet the Six Special Cities,
click on newspaper clipping to enlarge:

“IN YOUR COMMUNITY”?

But what if you don’t live in one of the Six Special Cities? On May 1st 2018 GateHouse Media took over at the Post. Weren’t they supposed to come in and shake things up at that newspaper?

If you live in the friendly, outstanding City of Greenacres, do you remember when you once had a beat reporter from the Post covering your local news and politics?

It’s true. It actually happened once upon a time. And the proof is below, excerpts from an article published in the Post on Nov. 12th, 2015. The process of amalgamating a local police department with PBSO is a timely process and began in 2015 in Greenacres and was completed 2½ months later, in February 2016.


Like a blended family, merging a city’s police force with a sheriff’s office takes work. “There are a ton of meetings going on almost daily,” Public Safety Director Mike Porath told the City Council at the Nov. 2 [2015] meeting.

and. . .

But, between now and then, Porath said the city and PBSO still need to iron out several details, including merging county and city public records into one database, settling on how the gun range will be managed and determining which city ordinances Greenacres will keep and which county ordinances it will adopt.


Sheriff Bradshaw and PBSO took over for the Lake Worth PD in 2008 and you can read about that using this link. Back then there remained some concern about PBSO by some in the community but former Commissioner Suzanne Mulvehill put a stop to that nonsense — here is what she said about PBSO’s contribution to the City of Lake Worth:

“Fabulous. They’ve exceeded our expectations. The Sheriff has done a fantastic job and it’s unquestionable that we want them to stay.”

Of course, Mulvehill called PBSO “Fabulous” only after the public caught on the plan all along was to end the contract with PBSO.

The video below is a press conference in May 2011 by a former City commissioner, Suzanne Mulvehill along with a former city manager, Susan Stanton “IN FULL RETREAT” after the community rallied to keep PBSO in our City.

Note: At the 6:15 mark Yours Truly asks Stanton two questions; however, she dodges both of them.