LTC 473-2020 MBPD ADCD Policing Plan December 14-20, 2020DocuSign Envelope ID: 40DFF189-9424-4E82-91E3-9C592ECA563C
OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
NO. LTC# 473-2020 LETTER TO COMMISSION
TO: Mayor Dan Gelber and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Raul J. Aguila, Interim City Manager
DATE: December 23, 2020
SUBJECT: MBPD ADCD Policing Plan December 14-20, 2020
I am respectfully submitting this Letter to Commission to provide a summary update of the
MBPD’s Art Deco Cultural District’s (ADCD) Safe Plan for the week of December 14-20,
2020. This LTC is a report of the results of the third week of an eight-week plan aimed at
addressing crime and the unsafe behavior and disregard of the COVID-19 Emergency
Orders. The intent of the plan is to further enhance our abilities to address the challenges
of the ADCD by providing additional proactive enforcement measures throughout the
ADCD and include the following:
● Enhancing the current staffing plan with up to an additional 28 officers, all from
our Specialized Units and Investigations Division, that will be specifically deployed
during the ADCD on peak days, and hours, to address crime and COVID related
issues.
• MBPD Command Staff will also be working into the midnight shift hours and be
there to provide additional leadership and guidance.
The following is an update on the three-week totals for the ADCD Safe initiative:
• One hundred and eleven (111) arrests have been made in the ADCD over the
three-week period. Arrests this week represent an increase of twelve (12) percent
from the number of arrested during week two.
• Twenty-five (25) of the total number of arrests involved the homeless (who all
report to be from Miami).
• Forty-one (41) of the total arrests have been drug related.
• There have been six (6) of arrests where there was a firearm recovered that had a
nexus with a crime. There have been a total number of eleven (11) firearms
seized (2 rifles and 9 handguns) over the three-week period.
• There have been a total of three-hundred and eighty-three (383) Uniform Traffic
Citations issued within the ADCD over the three-week period.
• Sixty-eight (68) vehicles, that have been associated with a criminal act, have been
towed during this three-week period.
• MBPD undercover personnel have seized six hundred and eighty-five (685) grams
of marijuana, twenty-two (22) grams of cocaine, and six (6.4) grams of MDMA.
In addition to these law enforcement actions, this past week the MBPD and Code were
involved in the closing of eight (8) area businesses in violation of the existing emergency
order(s). The businesses locations are as follows:
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• 124 Collins Avenue
• 1116 Ocean Drive
• 1437 Collins Avenue
• 1532 Washington Avenue (the second closing in two weeks)
• 551 Lincoln Road
• 1700 Colins Avenue
• 1720 Collins Avenue
• 3500 Collins Avenue
To date, and over the three-week period, MBPP personnel have handed out 7,870
protective masks to help with limiting the spread of the COVID Virus.
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