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  After Miami Cop's Anti-Semitic Video, Cops Claim They Were Smeared by Fake Texts

  January 18 at 9:03 a.m.

  The Miami Police Department resembles a middle-school playground. Here's proof. Two brothers who recently won the cop union's elections, Tommy and Matt Reyes, seem to be suggesting someone tied to the  election's losers is now fabricating evidence to smear them. Yesterday, New Times broke news that MPD Chief Jorge Colina has ordered...

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  City of Miami Attempts to Fire Cop Caught in Anti-Semitic Video

  January 17 at 7:37 a.m.

  Roberto Destephan, the City of Miami Police officer and former Fraternal Order of Police union vice president, filmed himself last year tossing Hebrew texts into a garbage heap outside an FOP office while calling the books "trash." That video then leaked to WPLG Local 10 News last...

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  New Broward Sheriff Fires Scott Israel Ally and Former Fort Lauderdale Chief Frank Adderley

  January 14 at 10:27 p.m.

  Unlike five other members of the Broward Sheriff’s Office command staff, Col. Frank Adderley remained at the agency over the weekend after Gov. Ron DeSantis ousted his boss, Scott Israel, as sheriff. Adderley, the at-times controversial former police chief of Fort Lauderdale, tried his fate with new Sheriff Gregory Tony, who...

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  Three More Miami Cops Misused Body Cams, Investigative Panel Says

  January 14 at 11:24 a.m.

  Despite the fact that City of Miami taxpayers in 2016 shelled out $400,000 to equip half of the 1,300-member police force with body cameras, the Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP) continues having to call out the city's cops for misusing the devices. The Miami Police Department needed the cameras after the federal government whacked the department...

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  Five Other Scott Israel Scandals That Suggest He Was Not a Great Sheriff

  January 12 at 9 a.m.

  Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel was basically fired on Friday. Israel's cops demonstrably failed during the Parkland shooting: A scathing, 500-page report released earlier this month detailed how multiple BSO deputies failed to confront Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooter Nikolas Cruz. Deputies lacked proper training to handle mass shooters and it appears...

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  Following Suspension of Scott Israel, Five Members of BSO Command Staff Resign, Sources Say

  January 11 at 6:23 p.m.

  On the same day that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended their boss from office and named Gregory Tony the first black sheriff in Broward County history, five top members of the command staff announced their resignations, sources confirmed to New Times. Those who resigned include Undersheriff Steve Kinsey, Col. Jack...