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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Get to know your Miami-Dade officials

"The ratio of [Miami-Dade] county employees earning $100,000 or more is not out of line with other governments or the general population." -Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez, Nov. 9, 2010

Today Random Pixels is introducing a regular series of mini-profiles of your Miami-Dade County officials wherein we compare their duties and salary to those of similar government officials throughout the U.S.

Today's official...

MDPD director James Loftus
Name: James Loftus

Title: Director, Miami-Dade Police Department

Miami-Dade County population 2,500,000

Duties: Oversees a department with 2900 sworn officers and 1700 support personnel.

Annual salary: $200,297 a year with executive benefits of $8,942

Now let's compare Loftus's salary and duties to that of the New York City police commissioner.

Name: Raymond W. Kelly

Title: New York City Police Commissioner

New York City population: 8,391,881

Duties: Kelly oversees the largest urban police department in the world with 34,500 sworn officers

Annual salary: $205,000 a year

2 comments:

  1. Kelly was appointed New York City Police Commissioner by Mayor Bloomberg.

    Who appointed Loftus Director of the Miami-Dade Police Department?

    Oh, yeah -- and there's that personnel/population discrepancy and Loftus' degree from Barry, a local university known to be very . .shall we say, liberal with degrees regarding local LEOs, and Kelly's impressive BBA from Manhattan College, a JD from St. John's University School of Law, an LLM from New York University Graduate School of Law and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He has received honorary degrees from Marist College, Manhattan College, the College of St. Rose, St. John's University and the State University of New York.

    But, that's no evidence that Loftus is any smarter or dumber than Kelly. YMMV.

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  2. A SURVIVING SON TO THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF HIS FATHER ON MARCH 24, 1961 IN DADE COUNTY HAS HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH DIRECTOR LOFTUS IN THE PAST AND LOFTUS STILL HAS NOT ALIBIED OUT THE PRIME SUSPECTS. AN AUG 2010 LETTER TO LOFTUS STILL HAS NOT BEEN ANSWERED. HAS LOFTUS VIOLATED THE PUBLIC TRUST PLACED IN HIM?

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