And a RINO is brought in. He is Cuban but with no South Florida experience. He is more Californian than anything even with stints as police chief of Austin and Houston. And he has a reputation for throwing his officers under the bus if the optics require it.
So far, media and City of Miami pols are creaming in their pants. And why shouldn’t they? He is a self proclaimed RINO and favors Gun Control.
The irony of the photo is brutal.
I wonder how is he going to deal with the fact that more people carry guns in Florida than Texas.
I do not believe this “marriage” is going end well.
UPDATE: A kind reader informed me just now that Acevedo has been sued by a former subordinate for having an affair which was the reason he left sunny California and became a traveling chief of police.
And I love this quote:
The tendency of municipal bureaucrats to recycle disgraceful police chiefs from one city to another demonstrates why the powerful position should be elected.
Lucky for me (hopefully) my neighborhood is under Miami Dade Police Department jurisdiction which will be electing its chief again starting in 2025.
I extend my sympathies to the honest residents of Miami. He is scummy.
He’s holding a Mom’s sign with a Come and Take It poster in the background?
BINGO!
Want to really shake up policing?
Want to make cities financially responsible?
Make all their municipal pension plans defined contribution, not defined benefit.
Make all pensions 401k /403b.
How many police officers would be left in Minneapolis Minnesota if they could take their pension funds to their next job?
How many cities have gone and will go bankrupt because of their pension plans?
Holy cow, there was no inkling of this in Houston (in general). Met the guy, have a picture with him…. and he’s a RINO gun grabber.
His department has executed civilians with no knock raids based on lies and fabricated testimony. His department can’t even run their own lab because it used to just make up the results they wanted. He inherited some of the issues here but he was in the big chair.
There were a couple of positive things. They were attributed to him, but who knows? The HPD runs a very good and well supported Citizens Police Academy. They’ve done about 70 classes of 100 students so far and I recommend it to everyone. He increased the requirements for marksmanship, and testing and training for officers. There is a lot of community outreach and local policing. The department runs pretty lean compared to others but he constantly cries poor and undermanned.
That said, if I have a police encounter in Houston, I want it to be with our Constable’s office or our Sheriff’s office, NOT HPD.
Good luck, don’t expect lasting change, and start looking for you NEXT Chief in a year or so.
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As a Texan, I’m callin’ this a win! Thank you Miami!
Time to place our bets on what inevitably gets him fired- either via getting caught with his hand in the till, or caught putting his Little Cuomo where it doesn’t belong.
Thank God we got him out of Texas! Sorry, Florida.