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Either police officers are stubbornly refusing to understand the continuing crisis of excessive force or they are painfully unaware of precedent, examples and instances occurring nationwide that show police brutality – especially against minorities – is a real thing.
Violent weekend leads Miami Beach to bring back extra police, ask county for help Martin Vassolo, The Miami Herald
Feb. 1 Back in December, Miami Beach Police launched a pilot program to pack extra police into South Beach to make the party hub safer.
Two months, 401 arrests and 22 seized guns later, the scaled-up policing plan appears to have done its job, says Kevin Green, a 60-year-old resident who has spent the last couple years chronicling the daily happenings on Ocean Drive during his walks there.
Police saturated the seaside strip. Everywhere he went, cops were arresting people, he said. And then boom, it stopped, he said, and it was hard to find an officer again on Ocean Drive.