In 2009, while newly elected State Attorney Michael McAuliffe was still building a reputation for cracking down on public corruption, his office charged two former West Palm Beach police officers with battery and official misconduct in the beating of a handcuffed robbery suspect captured on video.

Prosecutors actively pursued the case until September, when they dropped all charges against one officer and allowed another to plead to a misdemeanor. The move prompted speculation that McAuliffe dropped the case to garner favor with the local police union for his upcoming re-­election bid. Three weeks later, a retired police officer filed an ethics complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics against McAuliffe, citing a meeting between him and union officials shortly before the case ended as evidence.

The prosecutors office claimed that new evidence was discovered however a review of this new evidence shows no new information.  So either the case was unfounded to begin with, which is unlikely, or more likely the prosecutors office used it as an excuse.

In this case instead of the criminal themselves, we have one of the people protecting them.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 207: Michael McAuliffe

Because you only do the right thing until you need to get reelected.  When that happens everything for sale.