Opionion: OPD Should Focus on Crime, Not Pronouns
Orlando Local News Editorial Board 
Taking a break from fighting crime, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and the Orlando Police Department took part in a three-hour "Safe Zone" training focused on the use of pronouns last month.
Lieutenant Brandon Ragan with OCSO says something as simple as using someone’s chosen pronouns increases the likelihood of people reporting a crime or asking for help. We say this is pure hogwash. When asked for the data , neither OCSO nor OPD furnished statistics related to this highly tenuous statement.
The Human Rights Campaign says at least 14 transgender people across the country have been shot or killed in other violent ways this year. While every life matters, let's take this issue and shed light on the subject.
In 2020, nearly 42,060 people died in car accidents, 705,000 died of heart disease, 350,000 died of COVID-19, and nearly 600,000 succumbed to cancer. The outsized role transgender politics plays in our discourse isn't just innapropriate for school children or workplace training sessions. It is a public safety issue and takes focus away from solving real issues in our society.
Local law enforcement, like our military, must remain intent on achieving one goal: taking out bad guys and protecting the community from crime. Anything else is politics and has no place in administrative government or workplace training programs.
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