* ! * ! Here come da sheriff ! ! ! Race in 2024 !

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You guys are talking a lot about being a cops cop and how "fulanito" can unite the department. It's not about officers anymore, it's about who the people want. Sheriff of Miami Dade just became 100% political. BTW, the sheriff doesn't have to be from within the department

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https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/s...-heist-6521438

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You guys are talking a lot about being a cops cop and how "fulanito" can unite the department. It's not about officers anymore, it's about who the people want. Sheriff of Miami Dade just became 100% political. BTW, the sheriff doesn't have to be from within the department

If you want a taste of the politics that are coming to the "elected Miami-Dade County Sheriff's Office," then look at the sheriff's office to the immediate north. Every day is a meltdown there. Electing a sheriff works best in rural places where "everybody knows everybody" and the budget is not too big. However, in giant urban areas with billion dollar budgets, it becomes nightmarish. Even a recent Los Angeles elected sheriff was indicted, not too long ago. Politics breeds weird kinds of corruption, especially in big departments with big budgets. The Miami-Dade County Sheriff's Office will be a magnet for it. In the 1920s, 30s and 40s, many counties in the northeastern United States got rid of elected sheriffs, due to the inherent corruption. However, Florida went backwards with Amendment 10. Electing a sheriff in a huge urban area sounds good in theory, but it's bad in reality.

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https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/s...-heist-6521438

Old news, isn't it? Besides, were the Menocal twins arrested, prosecuted? Was Ignacio's FDLE certification revoked, was Jesse denied his? No! Somehow Miami PD allowed Ignacio to resigned and Jesse was removed from the employment selection process. That was it! Thereafter, the Menocal twins found refuge at Sweetwater PD., where they made their careers. In fact, Ignacio is still there and Jesse may still be teaching at the Miami-Dade School of Justice!

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You guys are talking a lot about being a cops cop and how "fulanito" can unite the department. It's not about officers anymore, it's about who the people want. Sheriff of Miami Dade just became 100% political. BTW, the sheriff doesn't have to be from within the department

All the votes have yet to be counted and Gimenez is already lying on the radio. The fact is what will change is accountability. Now director Juan Perez reports to Maurice Kemp; who is he? Well open and read the below link. We wonder how many Dade County voters know who Kemp is, what does he do and how much is he making. As a retired City of Miami -- Gimenez' hand picked -- fire chief and now Gimenez' personally selected "deputy mayor," Kemp is probably pulling $400K, not bad for "public service" work, huh? Anyone remember hearing about a Nationwide selection for Kemp's position? Of course not! Corruption?

Gimenez had audacity to say that "taxes" will be raised, as the budget for public safety will be taken out of the county Commission's hands, should a budgetary dispute arise and place in the Governor's Cabinet's hands for resolution. What this statement inadvertently admits, is that MDPD has been under budgeted, under equipped and under staffed for decades. We who labored there and still do know it quite well. Nonsense, the elected Sheriff will proposed logical; needs-based budgets required for effective public safety. No more shall we see, Fire Boats being "dried docked" on Gimenez orders to save a few dollars, while lives are at risk.

Then of course there is the old faithful "boogeyman," public corruption. As if Dade County is not awash in it. Take for instance, Gimenez' own election, where absentee voter fraud was brazen and rampant. Particularly facilitated by Commissioner S. Bovo's office; of course Bovo didn't know about it - wink - wink! Consider also that in spite the change in State Law making the once ubiquitous "Maquinitas" illegal, they are doing quite well; brazenly operating within the Fiefdom of Hialeah in violation of FSS 849.15 - Machines or devices which come within provisions of law. Penalty: FSS 849.23 - Penalty for violations of ss. 849.15-849.22. Yes, misdemeanors and eventually a third degree felony for a third and subsequent offenses. Sadly that is the tool we have to combat this prolific crime. Though the critical question must be: Why, Gimenez, Dade County's de facto sheriff, allows his political ally, Hialeah's mayor to violate State Law; why does our State Attorney? Corruption?

"Maquinitas" have a long and sordid history, dating back to the 1930s, when Frank Costello established his slot machine fief in NYC, until Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia ran him and his "maquinitas" out of NYC and into New Orleans [Carlos Marcelo's Fief]. Eventually José Miguel Battle Sr. [a Santo Trafficante Jr. associate] brought the "Maquinitas" to South Florida. Ostensibly, under the guise they are but harmless entertainment machines. No, they are prolific cash cows for Organized Crime, if but at a quarter at the time.

Instead of harping on what transpired decades ago, resulting in the elimination of the Sheriff and the advent of the appointed police director, local reporters must be asking Gimenez why he allows the City of Hialeah to brazenly violate Florida's Gambling Statute?

Fear not, at MDPD the new elected Sheriff will select a SWORN member, from within MDPD to serve as First Deputy in charge of police services. We believe there are still a few men and women active within the agency with the qualities the current appointed police director lacks and will never have. The same holds true for Corrections, Fire, Medical Examiner and other departments falling within the elected Sheriff's orbit.

When candidates for the elected Sheriff's Office announce, Dade County voters will be sufficiently discerning to differentiate between pretenders and the genuine article, and then make the right choice. Until then, do not allow the forces now arraying against the elected Sheriff to manipulate your emotions, get inform.


https://www.miamidade.gov/mayor/biography-kemp.asp

https://untappedcities.com/2013/07/0...-machines-nyc/

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-n...le1950448.html

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-n...le1954369.html

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Thank you monitors, we believe it is important for the above post to have come on this thread. Folks working within the public safety environment must be informed and lies from Gimenez and his minions challenged and refuted.

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Gimenez being elected as our next sheriff would be the mother of all ironies!

From article:
With the shift from a hired police executive to an elected one, the constitutional change has launched speculation of who might seek the post in 2024. Gimenez, a former Miami fire chief, has openly toyed with idea. When asked about the possibility earlier this year, he didn’t discourage the idea, noting: “I am the sheriff.”

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/pol...221285885.html

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Gimenez being elected as our next sheriff would be the mother of all ironies!

From article:
With the shift from a hired police executive to an elected one, the constitutional change has launched speculation of who might seek the post in 2024. Gimenez, a former Miami fire chief, has openly toyed with idea. When asked about the possibility earlier this year, he didn’t discourage the idea, noting: “I am the sheriff.”

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/pol...221285885.html

He will be too old.

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Carlos Alvarez will be the sheriff

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It’s easier to deal with one corrupt person than 14 corrupt people. Let’s go Sheriff