Former Hillsborough County Sheriff Walter C. Heinrich died Monday, February 15, 2010 at 83 years of age. Heinrich was Hillsborough County’s sheriff for 14 years, from 1978 to ‘82.
The rain put a big damper on Tampa’s signature event. Organizers estimate that the crowd was far less than half of last year’s 350,000. With 50 extra officers, and twice the number of portable toilets, you would think this small crowd would be manageable. But police were doing a bit more than just trading beads. [...]
When turning right, we hardly see anyone actually stop for the red light. Temple Terrace is using red light cameras and fines to dissuade us from rolling on through, and they find that about 90% of their camera citations are for right turners.
With a 5-1 vote, City Council denied step raises for Tampa Police.
Modeled after the Amber Alert, the Silver Alert is an emergency system in which law enforcement can broadcast regional or statewide alerts for missing seniors and/or other adults with Alzheimer’s or other cognitive disorders. Times reporter Emily Nipps says that some folks wonder if the Silver Alert program is worth our time & effort, so she [...]
Instead of a secure courthouse, we got a three hour attempt to cover ass. It may be time to kill the county security force and just hire the Sheriff's office.
In St. Pete, selling from a pushcart after 9pm or before 7am violates a city ordinance. Sure sounds like a silly rule. But until the rule is changed, we can’t sell our t-shirts from a pushcart at night. Unless the St. Pete Times was in charge. A recent editorial says that if an ordinance is silly, [...]
After Tampa Police initially gave up on trying to find the driver of a car involved in a hit and run in Hyde Park, they have now decided that perhaps they might could work a little harder, and maybe come up with proof of who was driving: “When this case was reviewed by the supervisors it [...]
Another thing to worry about. For two years, Tarpon Springs cops have been ticketing cars for parking in valid parking spots. In a dispute between business owners, one of them put up fake ‘no parking’ signs, and then may have called cops on the other business owners’ customers. A couple years ago, developer Mike Bronson admitted [...]
