MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Miami Beach Commissioner Steven Meiner convinced commissioners to expand the city’s prosecution team.
The commissioners unanimously voted in favor of his proposal on Thursday. He argued that without this, more repeat offenders would continue to get away with crimes without consequences.
“I think our residents are asking, on a large scale, that we take steps not only to fix the problem we have now, but to make sure it doesn’t get worse,” Meiner said, adding, “You can all.” There is deterrent crime, but if the criminals know there will be no consequences if they are arrested, then there really is no deterrent.”
By expanding the city’s prosecution team, Meiner said people arrested for assault, indecent exposure and criminal mischief must pay for their crimes.
“I’ve looked at a lot of the data and found that it hasn’t been prosecuted to the degree that I and our residents would expect,” Meiner said, adding that the data shows the 165 in the first quarter of 2021 battery arrests for misdemeanor conducted 119 of them were dropped… and of the 23 arrests for criminal mischief during the same period, 10 were dropped.
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Data for the first quarter of 2021
battery offense
1st quarter of 2021
– 165 arrests
– 119 not prosecuted (72%)
Criminal mischief offense
– 23 arrests
– 10 not prosecuted (43%)
afternoon report
A Miami Beach commissioner wants the city to hire prosecutors to handle more misdemeanor cases that would otherwise be dropped.
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