The top cop in Broward, who sports a New York accent and is the son of a New York City homicide detective, started his career when during a visit to Florida on a whim, he filled out an application to become a police officer. Israel joined the Fort Lauderdale department in 1979 and worked narcotics at a time crime was rampant. Over the years he was the subject of 10 internal affairs complaints, mostly for excessive force, though he was cleared in all of them.  How interesting... The Clintons were doing a lot of political jockeying around that time.