Posted on 05/28/2008 12:31:27 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage
Seeking a balance between outreach and enforcement, Miami is launching a nearly $1 million crime-fighting initiative in Overtown that will mix police patrols, video cameras -- and suit-and-tie wearing Muslims.
The stepped-up policing seeks to deter would-be lawbreakers without making Overtown residents feel ''invaded,'' in the words of Miami Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones.
Which is where the Muslims come in.
Along with budgeting hundreds of thousands of dollars for increased police patrols and the installation of surveillance cameras, Miami is spending $150,000 on a ''Peacemakers'' pilot program run by a nonprofit with ties to the Nation of Islam.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Will they pay Catholics and Baptists to keep the peace?
More like hiring the mob to provide security at a Teamster's convention.
It would appear the point went over your head. It was a "fox guarding the henhouse" analogy.
What’s “Overtown” like?
From the article:
“Though Miami’s Peacemakers say they will not advocate any religion and are not officially aligned with the Nation of Islam, the Peacemakers’ corporate offices are at the religious group’s Miami mosque.”
Muhammad, who court records show was served in the lawsuit, denied his group even owns any apartments. County property records show multiple Liberty City apartment buildings owned by a Progressive Land Development Group Inc., that lists its business address as the Nation of Islam’s Miami mosque.
‘’That has to be something else,’’ Muhammad said. ``That’s not us.
hhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Yeah, the lights go out and the “trouble maker” is gone when they come back on. I’ve heard the stories. Pretty scary.
The cure is worse than the disease.
It’s a “no go zone”, kinda like Sadr City outside Baghdad.
It needs a military presence.
Jones who is possibly going to be indicted for corruption herself
A Sharia Law enclave is next!
Cincinnati, 2001?
Its like hiring the Ku Klux Klan to keep the peace in a neighborhood of NAZIs.
Thugs policing thugs.
I’m thinking VT is right. I thought it was Chicago too. The projects also rang a bell. Perhaps Cabrini Green, but not certain.
Is it black? Hispanic? Immigrants?
I thought Dade County was the worst?
Be interesting to see what happens if the “peacekeepers” happen onto an altercation between a “support the troops” rally, and a bunch of anti-war protesters.
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