Labor Day Operational Plan
The Labor Day Weekend Operational Plan consisted of enhanced staffing of approximately 20 additional officers daily, Friday September 3rd through Tuesday September 7th. The additional staffing was supplemented by officers from the Miami Dade Police Department as part of the South Beach Comprehensive Strategy mobilized following the tragic murder of Mr. Dustin Wakefield.
Resources were deployed to the Art Deco Cultural District (ADCD) and the South of Fifth neighborhoods as well as other areas of South Beach where increased activity was observed. The Police Department also conducted a DUI Check Point on Friday evening in the area of 12th Street and Alton Rd. as a proactive measure to deter impaired driving and identify other criminal violations of law.
The weekend progressed smoothly despite a combined predicted occupancy rate of 59.7% of hotel, professional, and home-sharing vacation rentals.
Below, a snapshot of the statistics for the days leading up to and including the Labor Day Weekend (Aug. 30 – Sept. 6):
The Midnight Shift Overlap
- 53 Uniform Traffic Citations
- 46 Calls for Service
- 8 Written Warnings
DUI Checkpoint
- Vehicles Checked: 873
- Agency Participated: 5
- DUI Arrests: 1
- Standard Field Sobriety Tests Performed: 3
- Traffic Arrests: 18
- Safety Belt Citations: 3
- Total Citations: 89
- Vehicles Towed: 5
MBPD SET and Motors Units, Code Compliance & Parking Departments
- 93 Uniform Traffic Citations
- 3 Arrests
- 1 ATV Towed
- 2 Vehicles Towed
Code Compliance conducted 77 calls for service/investigations
5 Notice of Violations issued to illegal vendors for business on public property
8 immediate compliance (tripod on city property, preacher blocking ROW, homeless selling coconuts, flower vendor)
A total of 295 citations were issued and 77 vehicles were towed (no permit, loading zones and fire hydrants)
Crime Statistics: January 1 – August 1, 2021
The Department continues to surmount increasing demands for service while the COVID-19 pandemic enters another phase of increasing infection due to the Delta Variant. Moreover, travel to the South Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area continues to outpace other vacation destinations in the country. The heightened demand for service is evident in the 29.7% increase in calls for service from 42,743 in 2020 to 55,456 in 2021 (Jan. 1 – Aug. 27). Despite the increase in calls for service, the City’s preliminary Major Crimes Index indicates a crime reduction of -8.6%.
The MBPD has continued its effort of addressing quality of life issues and this is represented by the 86.4% increase in arrests from 2020 as depicted in the included statistical attachments.