Fighting crime, City of Miami style!

As we discussed a few months ago, crime in the City of Miami is up 10.7%, so how does the city deal with it?  Do they put more cops on the street?  NOPE!  The easiest way to deal with the increase in crime is to simply have police chief Oroso's administration lie about the crime stats!  Our friend Al Crespo does a bang up job exposing this blatant cover up in his piece today where he tears apart the City of Miami PD's annual report where it seems like they simply cut and paste the stats from 2010 into the 2012 report!


Even worse than the fraudulent statistics is this god awful organizational chart found within the report...

The same backstabbers that conspired against former Chief Miguel Exposito and ultimately did him in.  There isn't a more deserving bunch to be at the helm of this wreck that is the police department today.  I hate to use the same pic again but it's so fitting...

While Miguel Exposito wasn't the best police chief in the city's history, he was certainly better than this barely literate crew of misfits that run the PD today.  Congrats Mayor Regalado, NICE JOB!

On another note, the City of South Miami's Police Chief's wife is being deposed again today in the Airways Auto Tag agency case, this should be an interesting afternoon, we'll update tomorrow...

Whatever happened to those pesky maquinitas in the City of Miami?

Everyone remember those maquinitas that created such a fuss over at the City of Miami?  Who could have forgotten those illegal gaming machines that were at the center of the war between the City's mayor, Tomas Regaladoo and it's police chief, Miguel Exposito which ultimately lead to his firing by the City Commission.  Many allege that these gaming machines which the city claims are for "amusement purposes only" are nothing more than quasi legal gambling machines whose owners provide cash payouts once in a blue moon to the poor schmucks that empty their pockets into them as evidenced by this video from the Miami New Times...

We're going to talk about these machines that litter our city and the ongoing legal war regarding these machines over the next few days, in the mean time, check out these photos...

No big deal, just a couple of guys in the city of Miami unloading some gaming machines aka "maquinitas" from the back of a trailer...

Now, here are the same folks repairing those same machines they were unloading earlier and now the best part, they're doing all of this in front of one of these guys...

LOL!  All this going on right in plain view and in front of a City of Miami cop no less!  Back during the Chief Exposito's administration, cops were going after these machines and their owners now it seems like under the currents chief's reign, the owners and operators of these machines operate with relative impunity!


More tomorrow...

Crime in the City of Miami up by 10.7%!

Amazing isn't it?  The Miami Herald reports that "Crime rate drops slightly statewide and in Miami Dade, rises in Broward" yet the completely ignore the fact that the crime rate in the very city their headquarters are located in has jumped by 10.7%!  Take a look at the statistics from the Herald's own story...

You can find the FDLE report that the story is based on here.  No matter how you cut it, crime in the City of Miami has gone through the roof under Chief Manuel Orosa, blame it on whatever you want, whether it's pay cuts, drastic reductions in the tactical robbery units, etc, Chief Orosa owns this embarrassing statistic.

What I find even more alarming is the refusal of the Herald to report on this black eye for the Regalado/Orosa administration while taking the time to slam Broward county whose crime rate only went up 3.5%!  WTF guys?