Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Miami police sergeant was indicted Thursday on charges that he planted cocaine on a suspect and stole drugs and money from dealers, The Miami Herald reports. The FBI said Raul Iglesias schemed with a former detective, Roberto Asanza, to steal cocaine and use it to pay off a confidential informant. Asanza…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department on Thursday announced a civil rights investigation into the Miami Police Department involving deadly use of force in nine police shootings — eight of which were fatal. “In the past 16 months, we have seen nine police involved shootings that are of concern and are the premise of…
By Fred Grimm The Miami Herald Paul Philip may have been a dandy FBI agent back in the day. But as an author, his five-page thesis on the Miami Police Department delivered last week – for $4,000 a page – was an affront to us hack writers everywhere. Philip spent four months researching the travails…
BY JOHN F. TIMONEY Miami Police Chief For the Miami Herald MIAMI — Most people in the criminal-justice system are aware of a problem with the federal laws governing sentences for cocaine offenses — penalties for crack-cocaine offenses are much stiffer than sentences for powder cocaine. This undermines trust in the criminal-justice system, and it…
