Police & Law Enforcement

Community leaders for years have advocated for a police review board to investigate citizen complaints against Miami-Dade police officers.

A grainy cellphone video is one of few pieces of video evidence released thus far from the night Barry Gedeus was shot dead.

The footage shows the officer reach around to the front of the woman’s body and touch her right breast.

Miami-Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez tweeted that he was “shocked and angered” by what the video showed.

A close-out memo concludes that the shooting was accidental, “with no intent of harm.”

Amid local and national cries for decarceration and less policing, plans for the new detention center are slowly moving forward.

First Amendment attorneys are calling a defamation lawsuit threat to a 17-year-old bogus, and merely an act of bullying.

The use of chemical agents on protesters during the global coronavirus pandemic has drawn criticism from experts.

Citing Florida’s public-records law, New Times requested the essay from the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office.

Rainey’s gruesome death at the hands of Florida prison guards is receiving renewed attention on social media.

Alaa Massri, an 18-year-old Miami Beach resident, says Miami-Dade corrections officers showed disregard toward her faith.

The popular Wynwood bar was tagged with the phrase, “IF COLUMBUS GOES, YOU GO.”

According to a recent court decision, three Miami-Dade officers in a 2016 shooting cannot use qualified immunity as a defense.

In an email, President Tommy Reyes told union members that “what is going on is a national attack on Law Enforcement.”

Fort Lauderdale police Officer Robert Morris has been reviewed for 82 use-of-force incidents since he joined the department in 2006.

Some protesters say MPD officers disrupted an otherwise peaceful demonstration, using an unnecessary amount of force.

Miami’s black police union is calling out Chief Jorge Colina for reportedly using the N-word at a class about drug operations in 1997.

A text conversation shows that in 2018, Mayor Francis Suarez dismissed the notion that Miami’s police department had internal problems.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle has quietly declined to pursue a criminal case against Officer Ronald Neubauer.

Protests against police brutality and racism in honor of George Floyd continue to sweep across South Florida.

“They were whites, Hispanics, from Puerto Rico. People no older than 35 years old,” Vallejo said in Spanish during the live broadcast.

Local leaders went on Fox News to talk about what made Miami’s protests peaceful and successful, at least in the eyes of Tucker Carlson.