A northwest Florida city, Panama City Beach, says it no longer wants to be a ‘Spring Break town.’
In fact, the head of the police department told the press he’s ‘not willing to risk the safety of our city to hold onto something that no longer works.’
According to the sheriff, over 200 officers from the sheriff’s office, Panama City Beach Police Department, local agencies, and our state law enforcement partners were deployed during the busy spring break. The authorities faced “risks head-on to protect our residents, visitors, and businesses.”
Not only that, some bad actors came to play, or as the sheriff put it, “spring break still draws some visitors with bad intentions—folks bringing guns, starting fights, or disrupting our community.”
To mark the cancellation of Spring Break, the Miami Beach website read: “We’re breaking up with spring break. Expect curfews, security searches and bag checks at beach access points, early beach entrance closures, DUI checkpoints, bumper-to-bumper traffic, road closures and arrests for drug possession and violence.”
