Greg Frazier: Gunned Down by Broward Cops After Turning His Life Around

As the gospel choir finished the last chords of “Going Up Yonder,” Deborah Frazier approached her brother’s powder-blue coffin. It was surrounded by heaping bouquets of baby’s breath and blue roses. For a moment, the cavernous sanctuary of the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was silent except the sound of her…

Five Controversial Items Miami Police Departments Asked for This Summer

Miami-Dade County set its annual budget late Thursday night. According to the Miami Herald’s Doug Hanks, County Commissioners argued over whether it was worth spending $100,000 to revive the county’s Civilian Investigative Panel, which employs non-police civilians to investigate complaints against police. Many law-enforcement scholars agree civilian-led panels provide an…

Miami-Dade Police Spending Up to $5 Million on Gunshot Detector They Said Doesn’t Work

In 2014, New Times reported that Miami-Dade County Police abandoned using ShotSpotter, a controversial police technology that uses microphones to listen for gunshot noises, after realizing it didn’t work very well. ShotSpotter’s “success in directly leading to the apprehension of individuals involved in shooting incidents [was] minimal,” MDPD told New Times that…

Man Says Pretrial Jail Guards Beat Him Until He Lost His Spleen

Two years ago, Miami-Dade County closed the ninth floor of its Pretrial Detention Center, which held mentally ill inmates awaiting trial in putrid, dangerous, and obscene conditions. For years, CBS4 had dubbed the ward the “Forgotten Floor,”and the U.S. Department of Justice called the conditions there unconstitutional. But although the county is…

Wilton Manors Police Department Faces Discrimination Claims

In the dim light of South Florida’s most famous gay hangout, two dozen men curl around the center bar to down two-for-one drinks on a Monday evening. Some are balding with graying hair. More rugged gents sport baseball caps. A few clean-shaven yuppies in suits scroll through social media feeds…

Miami Police Want to Spend $100,000 on AR-15-Style Rifles

In Miami-Dade County, cities can’t spend money on public transportation, affordable housing, or sea-level rise preparedness without local residents stomping their feet and flooding city commission meetings to protest. But ask for six figures worth of controversial, military-grade police equipment, and South Florida cities will pretty much just hand you a…