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Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez is so far successful in his efforts to convince voters that massive pay cuts will have zero impact on response times, clearance rates and officer morale.
It’s one of the oldest tricks in the book. A mayor seeking to significantly cut police pay tells residents that they won’t see any fewer cops on the street as the result of the cuts. Of course there will be far fewer crimes solved because the cuts, promises the mayor, target those useless cops sitting behind desks. You know… the ones that solve criminal cases. As he proposes an 8 percent cut in Miami-Dade’s police payroll, Mayor Carlos Gimenez repeatedly notes the reductions won’t affect patrol officers. “You’re going to have the same number of police officers on the street as you do today,” he said in a recent interview. “This is a department of over 3,000 cops. You really can’t tell me you see 3,000 cops on the street everyday. A lot of them are behind desks.”
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