by Ron DeLord | Jul 8, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
The grainy security video shows Steven Rodgers, a 43-year-old Miami-Dade County Public Schools Police officer, inside his Miami Edison Senior High School office. His silver badge glints against the dark blue of his uniform as he grins into the camera. And his penis is...
by Ron DeLord | May 2, 2016 | Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Two months ago, Miami police union president Javier Ortiz rattled the Beyhive when he called for a boycott of Beyoncé’s upcoming concert at Marlins Park, the first stop on her 40-date Formation World Tour. Ortiz deemed the superstar’s message...
by Ron DeLord | Oct 8, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
Last October, Miami New Times broke the news that at least two Miami Police Department cops had been clients at the notorious Coral Gables steroid den Biogenesis. Hours after that story was published,MPD brass announced they’d soon begin testing their cops for...
by Ron DeLord | Oct 4, 2015 | Collective Bargaining, Labor, Police, Politics, Unions
It hasn’t been the easiest year for the Miami Beach Police Department and its new chief, Dan Oates. Within a few weeks early this year, Oates had to confront video of an MBPD cop punching a handcuffed woman in the face and then a national scandal that erupted...