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Outrage exhaustion is real. But spare a moment for the roughly 2,600 men and women whose lives were upended and in hundreds of cases ruined when the Broward Sheriff’s Office got into the crack cocaine business. It’s taken three decades, but Broward is finally getting around to vacating the convictions of those arrested and, in some cases, imprisoned after Broward Sheriff Nick Navarro broke the law to make sure drug addicts broke the law, too. CourtesyPat Beall is an editorial writer and columnist for the Sun Sentinel, focusing mainly on Palm Beach County issues. It started with a Greyhound Bus station locker in 1988.

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