Crime & Police

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.

After expressing condolences for the Floyd family, Miami-Dade commissioners insisted that police and community relations are just fine.

Activists were put to the test throughout the day as some protesters got into tense encounters with police.

Charles Hobbs’ death was a turning point on the inside — an indisputable example of the danger each of them faces from behind bars.

A downtown Miami protest that began peacefully Saturday afternoon erupted into chaos at nightfall.

The former police chief died in 1968, but his words were resurrected early this morning by President Donald Trump.