On a recent Friday night, there were nine police officers patrolling the Hammocks district. Nine police officers in their marked cars, covering the area between Southwest 8th and 200th streets and the Turnpike and Krome Avenue. Nine. The addition of 140 new police officers to our Miami-Dade County Police force is certainly a good thing to begin […]
Under pressure from the Mothers of Murdered Kids group that protested at her office, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle sorta passed the buck on unsolved crimes the other day, placing most of the blame squarely where it belongs: in the lap of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. In a statement, KFR basically shed light on the […]
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Audrey Edmonson called for a “State of Emergency” meeting last week about a spike in recent shootings in her District 3 — at least 18 people shot in 21 drive-bys, including a 14-year-old boy who was killed — and what can be done to stop the violence. About 200 people attended, including […]
There is a cost associated with the layoff of police officers — even though we are now hearing that may not happen at all — and according to union representatives, that cost is almost $3 million. A typical recruit class of 45 rookies goes through a 36-week period of academy training during which they are paid. […]
Miami-Dade Police Director JD Patterson cancelled on Friday two mandatory meetings scheduled for next week for sworn and non sworn personnel on the list to be laid off because of budget constraints. His boss, Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez told him to in a memo that was pretty much like a typed spanking. “After discussions […]
The Miami-Dade Police sergeant who got caught racking up questionable overtime has not been fired and is not on the list of officers to get canned by Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez‘s plan to balance the budget by firing 255 cops. He’s not even getting bumped down a notch. In fact, he was recently transferred to […]
UPDATED: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and most of his family will not feel the pain that he wants to inflict on the rest of us in the county if and when he cuts 255 officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department. Gimenez lives on the edge of Coconut Grove, across the street from Coral Gables, at […]