An elected sheriff, free of political meddling and cronyism

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All you racist people talking about banana Republic!?!?! Last I checked that's a Anglo name

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Most violators have either promoted, given special positions, even places as IA personnel. Just look at the POAT, IA OT scandal, and many other OT violators "NADA" not even a letter to file all swept under the rug.

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Iagree lets do it.

Be careful what you ask for the perfect sheriff for here is a gringo. In the banana republic he wouldn't win you would get more of same. Right now the sheriff is the strong mayor, but he has cover as puppet director can be blamed for his screwed up policies and crony promotions.

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Be careful what you ask for the perfect sheriff for here is a gringo. In the banana republic he wouldn't win you would get more of same. Right now the sheriff is the strong mayor, but he has cover as puppet director can be blamed for his screwed up policies and crony promotions.

At least with an elected sheriff you get a change of the guard every several years and there is a chance that a really bad command staff member will get whacked and demoted. Otherwise we're stuck with terrible career administrators like Elesea Thompson. This fear of demotion will also keep some of them like Noell Pratt, Daniels and Byrd a little humble. Major or Chief today - Lieutenant tomorrow.

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Be careful what you ask for the perfect sheriff for here is a gringo. In the banana republic he wouldn't win you would get more of same. Right now the sheriff is the strong mayor, but he has cover as puppet director can be blamed for his screwed up policies and crony promotions.

So in your brilliant and objective mind, only a white non-Hispanic would be the right candidate for Miami Dade County sheriff, a person free from corruption and the allure of corruption? Remember Ken Jenne, the disgraced former Broward County sheriff sentenced to prison for public corruption? Though Jenne soiled himself, voters subsequently cleansed the office by electing Al Lamberti and then current Sheriff Scott Israel, both of whom served and continue to serve honorably and with distinction. Most people are susceptible to corruption, for it is an equal opportunity seducer; here is an example: though he was not an elected sheriff, former Miami Police chief and subsequently city manager, Donald Warshaw was as corrupt as one can become and was convicted for his debase deeds.

I was fifteen in 1967, when Dade County voters voted to rescind the elected sheriff’s office and replace it with an appointed Public Safety Director, with E. Wilson Purdy getting appointed as such and being accountable to the “strong” County Manager. Why? Since Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver came to Dade County to investigate Organized Crime corruptive influence of Dade County Law Enforcement, “the Kefauver Committee hearings showed the corruption in Miami was out of control. Gangsters were paying an estimated $1 million annually in bribes to law enforcement officials (in 1950’s dollars). As much as $90,000 was reportedly spent to elect municipal councilmen whose annual salaries in the late 1940s were $3,000.” No Cubans in Dade County then and Blacks were then segregated, with little or no political influence. Inexplicably, the Kefauver Committee never looked into Mayer Lanky, the “wizard behind the curtain” who manipulated all organized crime activities in Dade County, in concert with Tampa’s Santo Trafficante Jr, whose “beak” had to be wetted by each and every organized crime operation taking place in Dade County.

Miami Dade County is nearly 70 percent Hispanic, so doubtless the likelihood of a person of Hispanic descent being elected Dade County Sheriff is high; should that ever come to fruition. Fifteen years into the 21st Century, Miami Dade County is replete with young, highly educated, American born young people of Hispanic ancestry that could very aptly lead the Miami Dade County Sheriff Office. Sadly, should the office holder succumb to corruptive influences, voters could and will recall the incumbent, as we did Carlos Alvarez and elect a suitable sheriff replacement as did Broward voters. It is not the Office that is vulnerable to venality, is the person that occupies it; irrespective of ethnicity, gender and or race, but such nuance might be too enigmatic for your already bursting “brilliant and objective; mind to fathom.

http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_447.html

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No as a group they are same as us, I'm Hispanic, I was referring only to the current MDPD command staff not people in general but demographics in MDC would not allow a non-hispanic to get elected county-wide.

So in your brilliant and objective mind, only a white non-Hispanic would be the right candidate for Miami Dade County sheriff, a person free from corruption and the allure of corruption? Remember Ken Jenne, the disgraced former Broward County sheriff sentenced to prison for public corruption? Though Jenne soiled himself, voters subsequently cleansed the office by electing Al Lamberti and then current Sheriff Scott Israel, both of whom served and continue to serve honorably and with distinction. Most people are susceptible to corruption, for it is an equal opportunity seducer; here is an example: though he was not an elected sheriff, former Miami Police chief and subsequently city manager, Donald Warshaw was as corrupt as one can become and was convicted for his debase deeds.

I was fifteen in 1967, when Dade County voters voted to rescind the elected sheriff’s office and replace it with an appointed Public Safety Director, with E. Wilson Purdy getting appointed as such and being accountable to the “strong” County Manager. Why? Since Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver came to Dade County to investigate Organized Crime corruptive influence of Dade County Law Enforcement, “the Kefauver Committee hearings showed the corruption in Miami was out of control. Gangsters were paying an estimated $1 million annually in bribes to law enforcement officials (in 1950’s dollars). As much as $90,000 was reportedly spent to elect municipal councilmen whose annual salaries in the late 1940s were $3,000.” No Cubans in Dade County then and Blacks were then segregated, with little or no political influence. Inexplicably, the Kefauver Committee never looked into Mayer Lanky, the “wizard behind the curtain” who manipulated all organized crime activities in Dade County, in concert with Tampa’s Santo Trafficante Jr, whose “beak” had to be wetted by each and every organized crime operation taking place in Dade County.

Miami Dade County is nearly 70 percent Hispanic, so doubtless the likelihood of a person of Hispanic descent being elected Dade County Sheriff is high; should that ever come to fruition. Fifteen years into the 21st Century, Miami Dade County is replete with young, highly educated, American born young people of Hispanic ancestry that could very aptly lead the Miami Dade County Sheriff Office. Sadly, should the office holder succumb to corruptive influences, voters could and will recall the incumbent, as we did Carlos Alvarez and elect a suitable sheriff replacement as did Broward voters. It is not the Office that is vulnerable to venality, is the person that occupies it; irrespective of ethnicity, gender and or race, but such nuance might be too enigmatic for your already bursting “brilliant and objective; mind to fathom.

http://www.americanmafia.com/Feature_Articles_447.html

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No as a group they are same as us, I'm Hispanic, I was referring only to the current MDPD command staff not people in general but demographics in MDC would not allow a non-hispanic to get elected county-wide.

What are the chances of a Hispanic getting elected in Atlanta, Georgia, where Blacks are 54% of the population? In a representative Republics as ours, the majority sways significant political power. In 1964, Hispanics were a paltry minority in Dade County; White Non-Hispanics were in charge of everything. In fact, in 1965, “. . . Athalie Range became the first African-American to run for the City Commission. She won a plurality in the primary election, although not a majority. In the runoff election, Range's opponent, a white man named Irwin Christie, sent a sound truck through white neighborhoods the day before the election broadcasting the message that if the white people did not get out and vote, they would have a black woman making laws for them." A Hispanic was not elected to the County Commission until 1981, with Jorge Valdes winning the seat. It is all about demographics! It has taken Hispanics a long time to reach the mountain top; sadly in the process many have failed us, but most have not and the new generation of sons and daughters of the Hispanic diaspora, most if not all, born in the United States, are in a better position to rise even higher.

Fairness is defined best by the equitable application of Luke 6:31, regardless what race or ethnicity is in power.


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