WATCH: Brevard Sheriff Wayne Ivey’s High Intensity Target Team Rips Down Crime-Ridden Drug Flop House

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ABOVE VIDEO: Watch as the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office dismantles this structure on the ‘Sheriff’s High Intensity Target’ List. The HIT program is an operational approach adopted by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office to identify and aggressively target properties or addresses that generate a disproportionate share of law enforcement calls, complaints, or criminal activity. (BCSO image)

EDITOR’S NOTE: What Is the Sheriff’s High Intensity Target (HIT) Program?

The HIT (High Intensity Target) program is an operational approach adopted by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office to identify and aggressively target properties or addresses that generate a disproportionate share of law enforcement calls, complaints, or criminal activity. Under this program:
■ Houses or addresses which repeatedly generate service calls (for disturbance, drug activity, weapons, etc.) may be flagged for higher scrutiny.
■ The sheriff’s office may deploy surveillance, use search warrants, make arrests, and impose sanctions (such as condemnation or closure) against the property or occupants.
■ The public nature of such designations is sometimes used to deter further criminal behavior—residents or visitors to a flagged address may be warned publicly that they are “on notice.”

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SHERIFF IVEY: We’ve had repeated calls for service here, drugs, flop house, all sorts of craziness, people shooting in there, and everything else.

Hello everyone, I’m Sheriff Wayne Ivey of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, and this house right here, yeah, it made the Sheriff’s High Intensity Target List.

So you know what’s happening? We’re going to take these, and we’re going to tear this piece of crap down, because we’ve had repeated calls for service here, drugs, flop house, all sorts of craziness, people shooting in there, and everything else.

You might remember this place, though, because out front is where they put all the graffiti up, talking about how much they hated the Sheriffs and how they didn’t like me. Well, guess what, now they’ve got a reason not to like me because we’re going to tear their little playhouse down.

Before any of you soft-on-crime little crybabies start talking and saying, Oh, you can’t do that, it’s illegal: everything we’re doing is legal, and we’ve done it the right way, with the proper paperwork and everything else.

Folks, I wouldn’t let anybody live in this; it’s uninhabitable. It is festered with drugs and everything else. This place is not safe for anybody; it’s been condemned, and we are taking it out.

So, everybody, you see what happens when you sell drugs, have a flop house, a nuisance house, all of the above. Because once you make the list, we’re coming. This team right here, this is our unit, and we’re gonna, we’re gonna tear your little playhouse down.

So here’s the thing: if you don’t want your playhouse torn down, don’t break the law. Don’t do drugs, don’t be a nuisance house, don’t have prostitution, or all of those types of things. Don’t annoy your neighbors, because we’re not going to have it.

We are going to have peace in our neighborhoods, and if you don’t want to be on our social media site, don’t break the law in Brevard County.”

– Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey

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