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  Report: Rundle's Office Teaches Prosecutors to Avoid Talking About Lying Cops

  October 15 at 4:14 p.m.

  Defense lawyers and justice-reform advocates have known for years that cops routinely get away with lying in court and on official documents without punishment. Cops, in fact, lie in sworn statements so often that critics even created a phrase — "testilying" — to describe the problem.

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  Retroactive Gain-Time Bill Would Reform Florida's Harsh Prison Sentencing Laws

  October 15 at 9 a.m.

  Two "gain-time" bills making their way through the Florida Legislature would reform the state's harsh minimum sentencing laws — a move experts say would promote good behavior and public safety while saving the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

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  Miami-Dade Probation Officer Charged With Second Series of Rapes in Two Months

  October 14 at 3:24 p.m.

  Before this weekend, Yulian Gonzalez, a former Miami-Dade County corrections officer, had already been facing life in prison. He previously supervised inmates sitting on house arrest — but at the end of September, prosecutors hit him with eight criminal charges.

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  Video: Border Patrol Agents Detain Emergency Room Patient at Aventura Hospital

  October 14 at 9 a.m.

  During a traffic stop yesterday, agents from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) detained an undocumented woman who was on her way home from a family outing at Haulover Beach. Almost immediately, the woman began to have a panic attack. The officers took her to Aventura Hospital & Medical Center, where she was treated by emergency-room doctors.

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  Miami Police Want to Spend $70K on Powerful Phone-Spying Software

  October 9 at 8 a.m.

  In 2018, New Times reported that the Miami-Dade Police Department wanted to renew its long-standing contract with the Nebraska company PenLink, which sells extremely powerful cell-phone-tracking technology to local cops. At the time, information about the sort of tech MDPD was using to surveil its citizens was fairly sparse...

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  Miami Beach Cop Suspended for Model Incident Appeared in Previous Video With Dancing Women

  October 8 at 2:45 p.m.

  Somehow, Miami Beach Police Officer William Beeker's latest incident — wherein he appears on film with semi-nude models at the police station — is not his first. Last night, WSVN broke the news that Beeker had inexplicably appeared in a series of Instagram videos in which he pretended to arrest three barely-clothed women