South Beach’s vibrant nightlife is about to experience a considerable increase in police presence and more rigorous operations in the face of scandalous crowds and crime, weeks after a tourist who was having dinner with his family was shot dead in a restaurant. of Miami Beach, authorities reported.
“The many years of problematic incidents in this district can no longer be tolerated,” City Councilwoman Alina Hudak said in a memo Friday in which plans were revealed to “create the highest level of regular police presence than this.” area you have seen “.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber ordered police, along with firefighters, parking lots, sanitation and other departments to chart a unified strategy for dealing with crowds. The Police Department reassigned an average of 40 officers to the South Beach Street Patrol, to increase “visibility” not only at night or on weekends, but throughout the day, the memo stressed.
Ten county agents are incorporated every weekend into operations in South Beach for the rest of the year, Gelber added in a video message Friday.
The nightlife in front of the beach has been increasingly full of uncontrolled revelry during the festive weekends. The city imposed a strict curfew from 8pm onwards in March after a riotous crowd of revelers gathered in the streets by the thousands, causing fights, causing havoc in restaurants and refusing to wear masks. About 1,000 people were arrested and many were on alert from other cities, police revealed.
“It is no longer enough to treat what has historically been defined as‘ periods of high impact ’as anomalies when every weekend brings crowds and challenges,” Hudak argued.