Back in the bad old days of 2002, the City of Miami Police Department had some nasty habits: shooting dozens of people, beating suspects, ripping through the city on dangerous chases.City police averaged 80 shootings every year and killed 15 suspects -- most black and poor. Things got so bad that Mayor Manny Diaz asked the Justice Department to come in and tell the cops how to shape up. And voters overwhelmingly approved a new review board called the Civilian Investigative Panel. They crea
In January, Shirley Richardson got canned as executive director of the Civilian Investigative Panel, the voter-created group that polices the Miami Police Department.​According to panel members, she rarely showed up for work and was a terrible manager when she did. To top it off, Richardson demanded an 8 percent raise on top of her $168,000 annual salary and threw a fit when the group tried to take away her monthly $200 cell phone allowance and $800 car stipend. Well, City Manager Pete Hernand
A couple months ago, the City of Miami's budget was about as well-balanced as Gary Busey on PCP.
​The Commission, Mayor Manny Diaz and the city's three unions staged a vicious tug-of-war over who would feel the most pain in plugging a $118 million hole.But as Tomas Regalado prepares to take over Diaz's seat later this afternoon, he inherits a budget balanced for the moment by an uneasy agreement. The unions and City Manager Pete Hernandez all agreed to pay cuts and layoffs in early O
Whitney Roux​Well, that didn't take long. WSVN and the Miami Herald report John Timoney is hanging up
his Miami Police uniform. He'll be gone by the beginning of the new year. Esquire once dubbed him "America's Best Cop." Miami New Times crowned him the nation's
worst cop. But rest assured, Timoney will be some jurisdiction's top cop, maybe even one close to the Magic City.An Irish immigrant who grew up in New York City, where he joined the police department and rose through the ranks to
If there was any lingering confusion about why Tomás Regalado chose his old friend Miguel Exposito as Miami's new chief of police, the veteran officer quickly cleared it up at his official introduction earlier this afternoon.Photo by Tim ElfrinkNew Police Chief Miguel Exposito stands with (from left) City Manager Pete Hernandez, Mayor Tomás Regaldo, and Commisioner Marc Sarnoff.​Flanked by the surviving members of our quickly shrinking city commission, Exposito delivered a speech that could
