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All the people currently in the unit have either an outstanding evaluation or above satisfactory evaluation. So we know performance
can’t be one of the benchmarks. Can you be more outstanding then the next outstanding person? Productivity is a hard benchmark to use because of the type of investigations. Do you get more credit for seizing cocaine then marijuana or
money? Is 20 investigations involving small amounts of drugs better than a few involving large amounts? Are long term investigations better then short ones? If you compare the officer’s stats you will see that a lot of the officers transferred did not have the lowest stats. You’ll find the same the same results if you check the squad stats and platoon stats. Sergeants and Lieutenants that were transferred did not have the lowest stats. It is a hard comparison to make fairly because not all the squads or platoons have the same number of people or conduct the same types of investigations. Who was it that decided who got transferred? What criteria did they use? Since seniority wasn’t used, did they have set criteria or did they just use the friends and family plan?
All the female supervisors were transferred, including the only black female supervisor. All the remaining Lieutenants are Hispanic, seven out of nine Sergeants remaining are Hispanic and forty out of 50 officers are Hispanic.
There are more experienced people leaving the unit then there is remaining.
Five experienced officers were transferred but they kept three Hispanic female officers and two Hispanic male officers from TNT who don’t have any experience in drug investigations.
There is a lieutenant who has been working narcotics twenty years and he got transferred.
There are at least 2 sergeants who have been in narcotics longer then some sergeants have been sergeants.
There are officers who weren’t transferred to the unit after the reorganization was announced and they weren’t transferred out.
There are officers in the unit who have been there longer then some of the officers have been officers and they transferred the experienced ones.
Why would you transfer your senior officers and keep inexperienced officers, especially when you are cutting the unit? Does that seem like a well reasoned decision?
Almost all of the people remaining in the unit are Hispanic. The unit is now around 76% Hispanic, 6% female, all of them Hispanic, 8% black and 16% white. The unit only has two or the black officers and three Hispanic female officers who have no experience doing investigations and no white, black or female supervisors. The supervisors who are remaining are not even the most experienced.
You have squads where most of the officers were transferred but not the sergeant and squads were most of the officers were kept but the sergeant was transferred.
Why are they removing the first black female TNT supervisor?
Why are they the removing the first black female major investigations detective?
Why are they removing a lieutenant with at least twenty years experience?
Why are 3 three out of 4 lieutenants being transferred NOT Hispanic?
Why are they keeping officers and supervisors who have been suspended or disciplined but removing those who have never been in trouble? If you check I am sure most of the people NOT being transferred either play baseball, smoke cigars on weekend or are good friends with the command staff.
Can they explain the criteria used to determine transfers and can they provide the paperwork to prove it?
You can also look at it this way. 3 out of 4 lieutenants transferred weren’t Hispanic. Out of the 9 sergeants transferred, 5 were from TNT, which was completely disbanded and didn’t have experience in drug investigations. 3 out of 4 of the other sergeants were not Hispanic. 1 is a black female and 1 is a white female. Out of 14 officers transferred, 7 were not Hispanic. 4 of those were female.
Why do you keep the sergeants with supposedly low producing squads and transfer sergeants with high producing squads? Some squads did not lose any officers. Do we believe that every officer on those squads were the highest producing in the unit? The junior officer remaining in the unit, who is female, has about 5 years with the department and no experience in drug investigations. The senior officer being transferred, who is also female has over 25 years with the department and is very experienced in drug investigations. Could it be the Captain who use to be the TNT commander and wanted to keep certain inexperienced officers in the unit?
If they knew they were going to be doing a mass transfer, why were they bringing new people to the unit and why were they not on the transfer list.
The way this mass transfer was handled was not fair, is obviously favoritism or the new version of friends and family, and will put the people who live in this county in danger and should be stopped. Ask for the seniority list for the department and the unit and then compare it to the transfer list. You will be shocked, mad and angry at what they did. Almost all of the people transferred are very experienced and the ones with no or little experience remain. Why is that? Your constituents, tourists and residents of Miami Dade County have been put in danger.
The way this reorganization was handled is so obviously flawed it wouldn’t take an EEOC investigation long to figure out all the violations. Your constituents need to believe their elected and appointed officials are making decisions based on the what is best for the county, not based on who their friends are, who they play baseball with or how pretty they are.
Let’s see how the commission responds next week.
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Ten months ago, the bureau was tasked with the reorganizing the bureau. The major held a roll call and told people “if you haven’t been brining it, don’t be surprised if your name is on the list.” Folks it can’t be anymore clearer than that. Not everyone been transferred however fell into that category. Unfortunately, when you have to cut a bureau by 30% you are going to lose some of the really good detectives and supervisors too. As for the “young TNT girls” while they always made themselves available to help with undercover work, they were also the first to go through the door. Where were the others? They weren’t around. When the sergeant is the one bringing the cases to the squad, there is a problem. Forget about evaluations, they are useless. “Let’s get to work.”
If the Sergeant is bringing the cases and his officers aren’t but still getting good evaluations, then the Sergeant needs to go.
The TNT Girls may be hard workers but if they don’t have any experience, how do you keep them over experienced officers? If you haven’t been bringing it, then you shouldn’t be there. The problem is supervisors don’t want to be the bad guy, they want to be everyone’s friend
Mr or ms anonymous.do you know that sgt .Rodriguez,the best out there and a good friend of the captain has been kick out? You are talking so much lie and garbage about captain .you should be ashamed of yourself! I am not kissing his ass ,I am going to be happy mo matter what,but it hurts when you lie .come on bro or sist. There are many ways to make it and serve
Mr or ms anonymous .you are right that constituents and tourists will pay for this. The good citizens will Pay for the destruction of TNT. Big mistake. My opinion criminals will start organizing and will take over the county. If they dont have nobody to stop them anymore, criminals will definitely organize. Very sad for the good citizen, but to blame the captain , you are completely wrong And I think you are racist yourself.ihurt me when lie about the captain. He loves me very much,I produce like nobody. And guess what I am going back yo the road . Yes I cried . I loved TNT .I will give my best no matter what to my country ,but mr or ms anonymous. ,dont lie anymore
It is our understanding that the “senior” officers, whom have given most of their lives to the department and then again, have the most experience in the field, are going to be displaced and sent back to be regular patrol police officers and the new ones, that had someone that knew them in the Department, were left there.
Two things that concern us: First of all, the Narcotics Department is going to be run by rookies, unexperienced, in a city like Miami? That sounds like a joke!!! And secondly, these “senior” officers with all the experience in the field, are going to go back to patrol the streets? That sounds like another joke and disrespect towards these officers that have given their lives and hard work to this department for so many years!
We urge you to please do a little investigation and make sure these officers get the treatment they deserve, do not allow the department to commit this injustice!
Yep that sounds like it. They weeded through and left the workers and dumped the slugs. The slugs with the hook ups get the cushy jobs like the airport. The slugs with no hook up get to ride a green n’ white and handle calls like the rest of us. Welcome back to reality.
Doris the contract doesn’t promise you a cushy job. Just a job. So get to the back of the line for the next nice job and let those that were already waiting to go places get their fair chance.
For what you portray, you are a FRUSTRATED want-a-be cop that never made it due to your incredible disrespect, ignorance and feelings towards others! It is people like you that we do NOT need in this world!!!!
Frustrated? Nope. Just someone that KNOWS what it’s like to pay their dues and work for what they have. 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Just because someone gets thrown out of one unit doesn’t give them bumping rights sonehwere else. That’s just wrong!!!!!!!
Go to the road and work your way back somewhere.
Do not despair in explaining it to the younger crowd Doris. No offense, we were young and new in this department once, the difference is in the old days you took your bumps and bit your tongue and waited for a chance to go to GIU to prove yourself. If you worked hard and excelled there then after several interviews you would eventually be given an opportunity to show your skills in Robbery, Homicide, etc. Specialized units like OCB, Marine Patrol, Aviation, etc., were extremely difficult to enter and you had to be accepted by squad members as well as supervisors to remain there. If you slacked you were back on the road in a minute’s notice. These days, you get young officers with two years on going to RID, TNT and all these new units and they feel a sense of entitlement that we did not feel in our time. Bottom line is, you hone your skills with experience, time and training. We all make mistakes but we move forward in our careers trying to learn the job. For some smart alecks that is too much work and bucking the system or getting to a specialized unit by “knowing somebody” is the way to go. You also have the “blue flames” sergeant with three years on who spends his time studying on duty just so he/she can get promoted to tell the workers what to do. Everything he knows he has read in the SOPs, problem is he has never experienced it and he llacks the mechanical skill involved in getting it done. This administration is chaotic to say the least. Neither Patterson nor Perez have paid their dues as investigators and the damage they are doing to the department is atrocious. Word of advice to our coworkers, do your jobs with dignity regardless of place of assignment, enjoy your days in that brown gown because regardless what anybody says is an honor to wear it, allow the slugs to do their deeds without due care because they will fall by the wayside and finish your career in an honorable fashion knowing that you gave it all regardless of circumstance. Stay safe and God bless.
You are a very smart person, Juan Santana and your words mean a LOT! Thank you.
Really!?! lol
Well, well, well Mr. or Ms. Anonymous Letter Writer,
You must be of a certain orientation and must have been affected by the transfers. We can agree with what you write about how cutting the drug unit and trasnfers will hurt the investigations. That’s where it stops!
Why didn’t you write that most of those being transferred are losers? You know those outstanding or above satisfactory evaluations don’t mean squat.
Why don’t you complain about all the african americans that have been transferred to the airport without ever even interviewing? I’ve interviewed several times and have been waiting to go there for a few years now. There are 3 or 4 of the narcotics rejects that just went there. I hear one of them is a senior and experienced “paper weight.”
I’ll wager there are more african americans in the airport (% compared to white or hispanic) than any place else in miami dade pd. Why don’t you complain about that? It’s probably the same for supervisors.
Why don’t you complain that they all go there because they are buddies with the chief over the airport? And no interview necessary. And a bunch are junior officers that have little experience.
You want to talk about friends and family? Look into that. You were finally hurt by what your “people” have been doing since Patterson took over. A little taste of your own medicine. Tastes like shit don’t it?
Commissioners please look at that too if you look at narcotics problem.
Oder he/she: You should not talk if you don’t know what you are talking about. What you are saying is COMPLETELY wrong! None of those officers are losers! They are the BEST that Miami-Dade county has and what they are doing is a complete disrespect for them!!!!!!!!!!!
Sounds like both of you have the same complaint. the difference is he or she did something about it. Have you sent something to the commissioners?
PLEASE, don’t compare me to a person that calls our heroes losers! I would NEVER use those words or think that way. To me, he IS a loser, not them (the seniors officers). Thank you!
I wasn’t comparing him to you. I was saying that his complaint was like the article. they are both complaining about how transfers are done
Sorry Teresita but the Committee that handles police and fire is headed by Commissioner Esteban Bovo and investigating absentee ballot fraud and that sort of thing is not healthy for him. Make no mistake, the MDPD director reminds me more of Rochester, the old sidekick to Jack Benny, than a real cop. His deputy director is only interested in becoming director and will bury any complaint that comes from the ranks.
Not as long as he feels like an emperor (the one without cloth). He hates the world and as far as friends and family, the fact is the family is doing well as consultants and builders, and friends are only the ones he sees as such, but lets not forget he is myopic and can’t see the trees for the forest. Why is the director of the police department doing this, these are his people and he should stand up for them, or he should retire (he has the time). Good experienced police should not be treated this way, someone should take the lead in the commission and call Gimenez out. Perhaps the chair of the committee that handles police and fire. Or perhaps the director will remember were he came from and stand up and defend his people!!!!
I agree with you 100% Teresita!
Gimenez, after almost getting nabbed for absentee fraud dismantled the corruption unit. Although never a cop, he now seems to know that this community if free of narcotics, economic crimes-such as identity theft. Even though the Feds recently made 23 gang related arrests, Gimenez feels there is no gang problem and did away with that. let us not forget that Gimenez did away with the Auto theft task force so no more stealing of cars in Miami-Dade. And, of course while congress is making a big deal of human trafficking and child exploitation, Gimenez sees no concern and did away with most of the unit-only one detective for this tiny county. Gimenez probably believes that all the media hype about crime is just that and there is no crime in Miami-Dade. The 15 shot and the countless lives lost to gunfire is just an illusion. Let us all hail the great and powerful Carlos Gimenez for his extraordinary powers to know that all is good and there is no need for a police department any longer.
You are SO correct, Dean!!!!!!!!!
Ladra have you been able to figure this one out? Any hypothetical suggestions? It reminds me of District 26, where so called prominent politicians, i.e., Ros Lehtinen, the Balarts, Jeb and Romney endorsed Curbelo the candidate least qualified to become a Congressman and one who is corrupt and dishonest (Capital Gains).