The Morality Police

august 11, 2003  04:17 pm
The Morality Police
The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, a special police unit established in Central Florida to concentrate on vice and drugs, is supposed to keep Orange County clean and family friendly. And they don't care how dirty they have to get to do it. Its agents and prosecutors have harassed and intimidated witnesses, lied about investigations, trumped up charges against old ladies and spent hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to coax a handful of people into committing petty crimes. "It's true the MBI has been successful, but only by degrees," writes Orlando Weekly's William Dean Hinton. "It is, after all, up against a powerful, unbeatable foe: the human sex drive."