Facing large budget cuts that will eliminate hundreds of officers, Miami, FL residents are being told to buy guns and take other measures for their protection.
“If the mayor’s not going to provide security, then my recommendation, as an experienced law enforcement officer for nearly 40 years, is either buy yourself an attack dog, put bars on your windows and doors and get yourself some firearms because you’re going to have to protect yourselves,” police union president John Rivera stated. “We won’t be able to.”
Gimenez said if no concessions are made by the labor union, “then you’re looking at about 250 police officers” who will lose their jobs.
The police force will attempt to fill the gap, Gimenez said, by placing law enforcement staffers from administrative posts on street patrols. He wants the labor union to meet him in the middle.
“This is the amount of money that we have, and if I have to pay more for the employees at the end, we are probably going to have to have fewer employees, unless I continue these concessions and get a 15 percent reduction in our healthcare costs,” he said. “Then we can maintain most of the employees.”
The Miami mayor vowed that a tax hike will not be forthcoming regardless of what union concessions do or do not materialize.
“We will not increase the burden on our residents through higher taxes,” he said.
In addition to the police department cuts, the mayor also is proposing:
- reducing the library department by 200 employees.
- downsizing mowing and maintenance cycles in some areas.
- increasing attention to signal, sign, flooding and pothole repairs.
- reducing Zoo Miami hours.
- increasing bus and Metrorail fares.
- closing a golf course.
- postponing police officer and correctional officer training classes.
Specialized law enforcement units which focus upon tactical narcotics investigations, robbery and gangs would also be reduced.
Response time to non-emergency calls is expected to increase from 13 to 30 minutes in some areas due to the department cutbacks, The Miami Herald reported.
Rivera reportedly feels that the mayor was wrong to use hotel taxes to support a $350 million renovation at Sun Life Stadium.
“You don’t enjoy the safety and security you deserve. But you can certainly enjoy a Dolphins game,” the union president said.
Source: offthegridnews.com
Photo: NBCMiami.com
Sad an things just keep getting worse
Thank goodness they woke up. Yes, when thugs know they are up against guns they aren’t so quick to do their dirty
This is what Obama did to us. Wake up America.
Quick, before our government idiots make it impossible to buy one while forgetting their Oath’s of Office under our now Gutted US Constitution!
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The only problem is,if a regular citizen shoots a criminal to save his family the citizen will go to prison and the criminal will go free.That’s how screwed up our country is with bleeding heart liberals in charge.
This country has gone to hell fast.
THIS IS SCARY BUT TRUE, I BELIEVE NO MATTER HOW MANY POLICE WE HAVE WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PROTECT OURSELVES FROM THE CRIMINALS IN OUR OWN GOVERNMENT. OVOMIT IS BRINGING IN THE ENEMY TO TAKE OVER. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR COUNTRY, OUR FAMILIES, OUR HOMES. V
God, help and save America.
Nothings changed since I lived there in the 80 s .Police can t and dont protect you now…They can only respond…