Trayvon Martin case: Did Sanford police chief Bill Lee lack the experience to lead?
http://www.thegrio.com/specials/trayvon-martin/trayvon-martin-bill-lee-lacked-experience.php?page=1
......Neither Michael Blow, the dream candidate, nor Sonja White, a deputy police chief from Orlando, who was also African-American, and a graduate of the FBI National Academy at Quantico, Virginia, would be Sanford's new chief, though several people privy to the selection process said their qualifications and those of a third candidate, Robert Musco, who was already serving as a police chief in the small city of Glen Cove Springs, were, in the words of one source, "head and shoulders" above the eventual chief, Bill Lee Jr.
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"He met the minimum requirements," said one participant in the selection process on background, regarding Lee's qualifications to be Sanford's police chief.
Lee holds a Master's in Public Administration (from) The University of Central Florida, but his supervisory experience was scant -- his department consisted of just 20 full time employees, and his department budget of $2.2 million annually was dwarfed by the one managed by Blow, at $23 million.
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Residents who spoke about the chief - both black and white - did have one common impression of Lee -- boiling it down to three words: "good old boy." And the notion that the "good old boy" network is fully in force in Sanford is strong, particularly among it's black residents. At the top of that network, several people said, is Tom George.
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Even in stepping aside, Lee caused a stir. On the day he announced he was standing down, Lee promoted five officers, including Steve Lynch, who was involved in a 2011 shooting of a black man in a Winn Dixie parking lot, for which he was cleared, but which roiled the city's black community, and Randy Smith, who was the sergeant on duty the night police responded to the Trayvon Martin case, but failed to make an arrest.