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Alex 02/14/2010 8:30:00 AM
South Florida/Dade County leads the country in criminals, fraud, corruption. Everyone here just wants to make a dollar and screw everyone else. Nobody cares about anything here except for the important things like rims on the Mercedes. It's no wonder law enforcement here meets with so much resistence from everyone. South Floridians all want justice but ohh..."Don't arrest me. How dare you". "You're abusive". Miami, garbage for culture, no class...
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mike 11/13/2007 11:50:00 AM
the vote of no confidence would be larger but some didnt get a chance to vote.sad affairs for miami . and all officers . tarnish the city. and then you ask why leading goverment adises miami is a third world country. hes guilty of wrong doing across the board. firing hiring. and all actions. hiding information on crime. sad time to be called third world city . but lets be honest . thats what it is when goverment can do what they want and its ok if your friend with the mayor.
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isreal 10/08/2007 10:38:00 AM
i think its time for a new mayor. how does a police officer or a chief of police or any law enforcment agencys member or staff work on duty. first of all he has admited guilt. and while under investigation from one of the many investigations he should be relived of duty as policy mandates . or fired as he has so many officers cleared of wrong doing. its not very becoming of a mayor that promotes wrong doing. what else does he turn his head to.
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isreal 10/05/2007 2:04:00 PM
thank you tamara for your great work. i would like to see an aritcle on chief timoneys past misconduct at his past employment. and why the city of miami doesnt do research before bringing such a person with so much bad background. of not punishing his friends for dui and car crashes. and terminating persons for small issues even if they are cleared. changing reports to be less of a crime to make himself have better crime stats . this is every where he has worked. causing deaths to persons due to smaller report signals were made . which in return resulted in no investigation. cursing the community of cubans. cursing bystanders. false police reports.taking gifts. hanging out with felons.
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Tamara 10/04/2007 1:52:00 AM
Hi folks-
I just wanted to thank you all for commenting on my story. It is always gratifying to see that people read the stories in the New Times -- whether they agree with the articles or not.
Tamara Lush
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dan 10/03/2007 1:14:00 PM
mr kent reichert, obviously you only read the parts of letters you want to belive. do you not understand chief timmoneys history of fixing the books to lower crime rates. here and phili. due to no investigations a rapist did a crime spree and a young collage girl died due to timoneys desire to look good with low crime rates. god bless shanon shebert and her family. all due to this animals desire to look like he has some abiltiy to lead a police dept by fixing the books and have a low crime rate. god help us all. i would like you to show us one leader now in the milatery now or at any point that all the troops had no respect for.even his son has no respect for him or he wouldnt buy close to three hundred thousand dollars in pot. reffer. drugs. to put on the street for our kids to purchase. kent you must like timmoney. i wish you had to work for him. thats the problem when you put a man through collage and make him a book man. sorry you have to know the streets and have worked them to be a leader of the streets . its time for people to support our troops and police. seems like you need to go watch tv if you cant do any better than degrade a great reporter trying to make a diffrence in our lives and safter for all. no one respects an unethical leader.and now we will ad you to the list of unrespected persons that are a part of this animals circle of garbage.god bless the miami p.d. and all police that risk thier lives daily. and do not need a pice of trash to lead them. god bless our troops and police.
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Kent Reichert 10/03/2007 10:27:00 AM
This article is utterly without balance and lacks credibility. The evidence of malfeasance presented by Lush is skimpy at best. By my math, Timoney has travelled just over 30 days per year on official business in the four years he has served Miami. This doesn't strike me as particularly unusual or abusive. Did Lush try to find out the experience of other departments? Doubt it. This piece is little more than a silly shopping list by a very naive (or cynical) reporter serving up quotes from people with obvious axes to grind and questionable judgement. It is in fact a laughable hack job. What's the point? You owe it to your readers to try harder than this.
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Jackie Boy 09/29/2007 7:56:00 AM
This corrupt activity is just the tip of the iceberg for dear old Chief John. To really appreciate the real Chief Timoney take a good look at his ex-side kick from Baltimore Maryland convicted Felon FAST Eddie Norris yet another EX NYPD supposed brain child. This is a classic example how the public is forced time and time again to be fooled by these empty suits who pass themselves off as GOD's gift to Policing. Its very sad that the tax payers must suffer.Hopefully they will do the right thing and get rid of this bum before he gets another special bonus or travels to Ireland on the arm.
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Rudy 09/29/2007 7:53:00 AM
This corrupt activity is just the tip of the iceberg for dear old Chief John. To really appreciate the real Chief Timoney take a good look at his ex-side kick from Baltimore Maryland convicted Felon FAST Eddie Norris yet another EX NYPD supposed brain child. This is a classic example how the public is forced time and time again to be fooled by these empty suits who pass themselves off as GOD's gift to Policing. Its very sad that the tax payers must suffer.Hopefully they will do the right thing and get rid of this bum before he gets another special bonus or travels to Ireland on the arm.
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je 09/27/2007 7:21:00 AM
I am a MIami Police Officer some of you should do some research before you post incorrect information. The departemnt does random drug test every year, we have no problem with that. We do have a problem with politicians running our department. When a chief says to the public, "I only answer to the Mayor" that folks is a huge problem.
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david 09/26/2007 2:05:00 PM
edmondo. you are so stupid. do you think weekly would be good. to test for drugs. a great insult to the brave women and men that put thier life on the line so you can sit home and type. i think south florida has so many comendable beings and familys that no one should be allowed to speak of untrust as you have. by the way the city does frequent drug test. and it is from a outside source. you are as bone headed as the person that has broken all the rules of ethics and honor. yes you should have coffe regulary with your friend john timoney. maybe while you are at it you can counsel timmoney and his son.
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Edmondo 09/25/2007 8:26:00 PM
John Timoney. You are the Man!
Here are some further suggestions.
Institute weekly ramdom drug test adminsitered by outside sources,
and you'll relieve at least sixty percent of the problem with Law
Inforcement in South Florida.
Who these guys think there're fooling.
They want people over them so they can have they way.
No more, no less.
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Indira D. Lopez-Ruiz 09/25/2007 6:42:00 AM
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/us-says-iran-sending-missiles-to-iraq/20070923205009990001#cmntbgn
Check out all the comments I wrote from the 1st to the last. Corruption. Organized crime.
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JC 09/24/2007 10:37:00 PM
Boy you must have done something right. The morning after your publication, your newspaper began to disappear. All of the copies at the Grand went poof. The ones ouside at your newstand also disappeared. As a matter of fact, there is a great shortage of the Newtimes all over our beloved city. Is this a coincidence? I don't think so. The article wasn't that good. Maybe someone is having someone else pick them up. Wonder who that can be? Wonder who the article was about? Maybe we should watch for a mystrerious, now paid for Lexus, visiting newspaper stands in the weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee hours of the morning.
JC
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david 09/24/2007 12:59:00 PM
per the citys departmens rules:
if you lie about anything you are fired. sorry i was a bone head
if you do personal buisness on duty while you are supposed to be working for the city.hanging out at the lexus dealer to work out your free ride. and insurance. who paid that by the way. oh and your not supposed to leave the city on citys time and money.
lets see . lie. accept gifts. that is a charge daily. every time you put the key in knowing you are unethical and wrong. your a great example. well we have seen that . the apple fell real close.
americas worst cop and father.
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frank 09/23/2007 10:43:00 PM
Way to go woman. You are a good reporter and brave and by all means keep up the good work. Civil servants don't need a Lexus and don't need the Mandarin Oriental even if someone else's purse does the paying. They need to stay at arm's length. This is something Timony does not realize. The city deserves better and they can do better. A new chief that stays away from temptation and stays in the office and on the streets where he has vowed is what we all need. Thanks .Frank
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Bernard 09/23/2007 1:55:00 PM
If any law enforcement officer of any agency in Florida were to accept any vehicle for the length of time Chief Timoney did, they would have their certification revoked by C.J.S.T.C. . The City of Miami has a responsibility to act accordingly. You lead by example. The chief has failed to lead by the proper example by failing to report the vehicle as a gift. Secondly, the City's rank and file overwhelmingly have no confidence in the chief's performance.
Let the final story reflect the investigation's findings conducted by F.D.L.E. and others. When the city finally accepts what the findings are; the negative publicity will have deteriorated any evidence of his accomplishments during his tenure. Great job F.O.P. !
Integrity, honesty, and fairness are the foundation of law enforcement. The chief may have forgotten these values at his last seminar.
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j.e 09/23/2007 12:08:00 PM
The fact is many changes were taking place in the police department before this Chief came along. The shooting policy was being changed, Taser program, C.I.T program and other training issues. Any Ceo can walk into his company change policy and put a gaurd dog at the door when he leaves. What do you think will happen at the end of the day, A vote of no confidence!
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osborne 09/22/2007 9:27:00 AM
eric fabregat. you over educated obviously. you need some friends and a life. we want to hear all the news on this losser chied timoney. a bit or alot. the most important thing to rember is the stress of the officers working ten hour days and having to deal with the stress of the job and this ass ---- way of treating men. they dont deserve this stress. why dont you walk down martinluther king st. thats sixty two. and fifteen ave. at any time of day or night. and lets see how much meat is left on your bones. it wasnt that way before timoney . you did write such a nice letter. to bad you dont know what you are talking about. this is news like it or not.
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Erik Fabregat 09/22/2007 3:13:00 AM
Next time you chase a "provocotive" piece of investigative journalism, you'd do well to make sure of the following: a) That there actually IS a story. b) You assign it to someone other than a wide-eyed cub reporter looking for a "scoop."
As someone with a mild disdain of the behavior of this city's police force and certainly no fan of Chief Timoney's prickly persona, I was intrigued by the potential an article dubbing him "America's Worst Cop" had to offer.
Instead I was bombarded with inane travel expense figures the Evil Jim Timoney racked up at tax-payer expense.The author took great pains to paint Timoney like he was the CEO of TYCO squandering billions like some crazed jet-setter. Do you think cities like LA, New York and Boston send their top cops to stay in the Motel 6? Not exactly the stuff of Woodward and Bernstein.
But when it came time to corrolate Timoney's excessive travel habits with Miami's crime problems, the article tears and strains to yield fruit.
The most preposterous assumption was that if Jim Timoney had been in town for the shooting of two men at a bus stop on Flagler Street it might never had happened.
Are we to believe that Timoney's duties as police chief require him to stand guard at that particular bus stop on that particular night? What difference would it have made?
The fact that has obviously eluded this green reporter is that missappropriation of funds among government functionaries, while unethical, is such a well documented transgretion that it hardly qualifies as "scandal." Whatsmore, the figures provided seemed paltry by any standards. A 50-80 dollar per diem is laughable for a man in his position.
I'm all for accountability when it comes to my city's police force but if telling me that my police chief is arrogant, ambitious, accepts gifts (see: Lexus) and takes more city sponsored trips than he ought to is supposed to outrage me and shake me to my core forgive me for not breaking a sweat.
"The number of violent deaths in the city increased from 56 in 2005 to jaw-dropping 79 in 2006."
An increase in 23 deaths in a city of 3.5 million over the course of a year is hardly "jaw-dropping." Show me increases in crime across the board if you want to argue your case.
You want corruption, have this naive reporter plunder the news archives of how this city's cops were behaving in the 70's and 80's to say nothing of it's mangers and commissioners. It's stuff like that that sells papers. If you want to sell me a scandal, make sure there's meat on that bone.
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dan 09/21/2007 10:14:00 AM
jacqueline exeus. i must inform you that no one is stoneing a person down. timmoney has fired many officers for less than his actions. did he care about their families. he has lied about this vehicle and every time he put the key in he knew he was wrong. last year the city of miami had more rapes than miami beach. explain that. all the good work done is done by great officers that were good before he came. him and his assistant fernandez is a disgrace. they have the moral of officers very low. and officers dont need stress from thier employment. they have enough from the street. a high percentage of officers die shortly after retirment. the ones that work the street. not ones like him and his co partner fernandez. so why dont we give the working officer respect . the one that risk thier lives daily. and calling the news staff that over heard him calling those fucking cubans. well they have families and are proud of them as well as the community. its time for this racist animal to step aside. its time for a orginization to be put together to support the working officer. and stop this type of harrasment to our officers. we need to support them now. not only at thier funerals.
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david 09/21/2007 9:54:00 AM
whom ever j.m. is supporting chief timoney is must be his son. oh , i forgot he is in prison for trying to buy hundreds of pounds of marijana to sell to our kids. any way timoney didnt write a use of force policy. he may have implamented some thing that was a great policy already. lets face it , no one has died from use of force but one every four or five years tops. so he hasnt saved hundreds of lives. the only thing he has saved is his money while he travels and drives a lexus for free and on the citys. budget. put your name and how much you were paid.
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david 09/21/2007 9:45:00 AM
i just dont understand why all the news continues to tell us how stupid and terrible timmoney is with out telling every one his past. he didnt do any better in his last police dept. and one family sued him for the murder of there daughter shannon shebert.due to his dept had policy not to investigate crimes. to make him look like a good chief with low crime rate. the whistle was blown and it was discovered over six hundred cases were not investigated. rapes and burglarys etc. so criminals was running on a crime spree. please show his past.
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JM 09/21/2007 9:09:00 AM
It is a shame that the New Times only looks at one side of an issue. Chief Timoney has done a lot of good for Miami. He rewrote the Miami use of force policy which has saved hundreds of lives. He is tough on crime and that is why he was hired. He is expected to go to the Chief of Police conferences so he can represent Miami. Saying that he is the worst cop is untrue and slanderous....
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Jose Carrillo 09/21/2007 2:19:00 AM
Of course I have a ax to grind, our beloved Chief Timoney took credit for capturing Reynaldo Rapalo when I led them to him. Speak about cooking the books, I met with Rapalo in prison last month and what he told me confirmed my theories. The Miami PD changed the stop location and moved it over two blocks west just to take all the credit from me, a private investigator who hunted the rapist down and apparantly better that his detectives. I have documents that prove that the Chief's department altered records, testimoney, and commited perjury in his trial. What else should we expect from our beloved Miami Police Department when they have a liar for a leader.
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Jacqueline Exceus 09/21/2007 12:27:00 AM
After reading this article it shows no real evidence from investigations that could lead to the reasons of the City of Miami Police Department Chief being fired. With respect to Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice, and Public Relations this press has put the City into shame. Currently a City employee, I found that the publisher did not consider rules, policy, nor regulations according to City business.
I by far reject claims of Police in Chief John Timoney is bad. Call on other officers but not J. Timoney. He has long built his respect, professionalism, and attitude towards being the best.
Is it a crime for the Chief to have class; although, you consider him the worst COP for staying at up-scale hotels and/or dinning fine. The media needs to report on accurate crime and how they relate to the citizens.
In fact, no Sgt., Lt., or Major has authority to change reports nor stat's. City of Miami Police Department has long in the past carried a bad-pre. on corruption and Timoney is far from comparisons to what had been done.
Peace be with all those who read with basis of the author, and let�s help our brothers not stone them down.
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Jose 09/20/2007 8:56:00 PM
There probably is a good story in here, but where were the editors? All I know is that this guy has made some pretty big mistakes and has been on the road a lot. What this story fails to do is to make the connection between these two items. Do his officers think he is a poor chief because he is always gone? Were his trips the reason some of these mistakes were made?
Further, he is criticized for staying in fancy hotels. Are you saying that all of these trips were a waste of time? Did he stay at a different hotel than the other police chiefs that attended these conferences? Did he extend his trips beyond the dates of the conferences?
Better writing and editing make this a much better story.
