Chairman Thomas Riffel and committee member Frank Brenner both resigned during Wednesday's meeting saying the committee is powerless and that the Sarasota Police Department doesn't listen to the committee's recommendations.
"The role of this committee is not really impacting anyone and it's a disservice to the citizens to this city that it is," Riffel said Wednesday. "We are not protecting citizens. We are not changing the police department practices, and our collaboration with the police is no better today than what it was from Day One."
Brenner, a former lawyer who even argued a case before the Supreme Court in 1954, was frustrated that the committee and police department couldn't
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