Selective Enforcement South Beach Seventh Heaven & Black Week

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THE MIAMI MIRROR TRUE REFLECTIONS

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SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT SOUTH BEACHSeventh Heaven aka The Toilet

Urban Ghetto Week

By David Arthur Walters

THE MIAMI MIRROR

July 26, 2010

Selective enforcement of the law has become a sensitive issue on the illustrious southern end of

Miami Beach called South Beach. It has become such a bugaboo that, during the July 2010 Las

Olas Conference on Seventh Heaven, George Castell, the Code Compliance Administrator of the


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Code Compliance Division, who advertises himself as a Marine who therefore loves order,

suddenly blurted out, completely out of context at the time, We do not have selective

enforcement in South Beach.

Now I dont know about your experience with the Corps, but the Marines who bunked at my

place from time to time when on leave or after being discharged from the service were sloppy ashell, as if they were compensating for discipline suffered. But that is beside the point. The fact of

the matter is this: enforcement of codes in Seventh Heaven and many other areas of South Beach

are either selective or irrational if random enforcement is not a selection method.

Seventh Heaven is on the butt end of South Beachs Flamingo Park Neighborhood, and is the old

crack-hood that constitutes the crime-ridden neighborhood between 5th

and 7th

Street. It includes

the wall-to-wall nightclubs on Washington Avenue frequented by hip-hopping rap fans, many of

them would-be gangstas with rap sheets. Seventh Heaven is also known to residents as The

Toilet because the enforcement of the dog waste law there is selectively lax; the ordinance is

enforced on the main drag but never in this residential area adjoining the clubs. Some landlordsinclude big dogs OK in their advertisements along with no background or credit checks,

hence their buildings are generally populated with carefree dog lovers, wanted individuals, and

undocumented workers, and several of the structures are noisy at all hours and surrounded by

stinking ordure.

I personally resented hearing my next door neighbors refer to our hood as The Toilet. If this is a

toilet, I say, then what are we who live in it? Are we the turds? They moved away, and one

subsequently left me a voicemail: David, whatever you do, dont flush it, or youll go right

down the drain!

Anyway, the gentry, when looking for a South Beach apartment, are advised to especially avoid

neighborhoods with excrement-encrusted sidewalks, where residents do not even bother to curb

their dogs so nonexistent is enforcement. The excremental culture of Seventh Heaven is

attributed to trashy no-account people or gentuza who live in the hood, mistakenly blaming

the largely poor and Hispanic population. But studies have observed that more high-class people

than low class people tend to violate quality-of-life laws when enforcement is lax, and anecdotal

information indicates that many if not most of the violators of the dog waste ordinance are

relative well off non-Hispanics, including the permissive lady who lives in a $2,500 per month

apartment and allows her dogs to defecate wherever they like.

Seventh Heaven, excepting the main drag the tourists walk on, may be the worst case of selective

non-enforcement of quality-if-life ordinances, some of them passed by the City Commission

simply to appease activists, knowing they will never be enforced or selectively enforced when

discrimination is called for. For example, a bitter controversy recently arose over whether or not

hotels could sell alcoholic beverages on the beach. City Attorney Jose Smith said the long-

standing practice of doing so is definitely illegal. Alas, that might have put a damper on the black


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wave about to hit South Beach, presently vying with Vegas for the Sin City title, diminishing its

popularity as an urban ghetto party town. City boss Jorge Gonzalez demanded that the city

attorneys opinion be rendered in writing, and he made sure that compliance officers were

directed not to proceed with enforcement. By the time the legal opinion was drafted and

submitted, it was too late. Crowds were openly guzzling alcoholic beverages everywhere,

anyway, so why bother the hotels on the beach for selling it, especially if the public intoxication

and open bottle laws were not to be enforced, except perhaps if someone got out of hand. The

Gonzalez Administration informed David Kelsey, president of the South Beach Hotel and

Restaurant Association, that the city did not expect to crack down on hotel sales of booze on the

beach, and that it was hoped that the issue will go away.

Unsurprisingly, given the arrogance of elected and appointed officials, irate residents have

created a big ruckus over selective enforcement in South Beach, so it is no wonder that the issue

suddenly came to Mr. Castells mind, as if he wanted to say, The Police Department may be

guilty of selective enforcement as charged, but we at Compliance do not selectively enforce the

ordinances we are responsible for!

Yes, selective enforcement has become quite the bugaboo in South Beach, a raucous party

district that made famous for its perversity. One would think that minor infractions, such as

public drunkenness, fornication, masturbation, defecation, urination, pot smoking and coke

snorting, and any sort of disturbances of the peace and disorderly conduct, would be evenly

ignored. South Beach would then be one of the most profitable hedonistic Meccas, or rather anti-

Meccas, in this fun-loving nation of ours.

A bothersome flock landed in South Beachs sexy Latin lubricant: Huge swarms of young black

people descended on South Beach for their Memorial Day celebration; their hurly-burly hasnothing to do with remembering the sacrifices the precious youth of this great nation made for

our freedoms now taken for granted by us all including descendents of slaves. Our liberties seem

to increase in number each year as if Liberty has no limit unto Chaos. The event was called

Black Week, then Urban Ghetto Week. It used to be the Spring Break Freaknik event in Atlanta

until the black city fathers there ran them out of town with a massive towing campaign, saving

them from tarring and feathering by salt-and-pepper vigilante crowds.

The fact that Black Week is an all-black week was scary to begin with; anyone who objects to it

is called a racist. Many white drinkers believe that black drinkers are far more dangerous with a

drink in their hand, especially when they gather together in public and listen to rebellious rapmusic, an activity reminiscent of war dances accompanied by booming drums in Africa.

Everyone knows that the Negro race is relatively uninhibited even without alcohol; that much

has been made obvious by the expressive singing, clapping and dancing, the pants-down, butt-

wagging of would be gangstas, not to mention the occasional slave revolts and riots of

yesteryears.


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Or so the honkies believe. And blacks for them are presumably far more likely to embark on

crime sprees and run riot when drunk than are white folk, especially when they swarm to South

Beach for Urban Ghetto Week to celebrate being black mainland Miami is already infamous

for its black riots of yesteryear. Many white Southern Floridians perceive the all black wave as a

racist event, and duly fear for their properties and lives. Others just shut up shop and leave town

to avoid the hubbub. Club owners and hotels scoop up the cash; even prestigious hotels allow a

dozen or so guests in each room.

The fear of what is about to ensue including bloody murder is why city, county and state police

forces are called out full force in advance of the arrival of the great black waves. Preparations

were originally made for massive enforcement of misdemeanor violations usually unenforced.

Long prison busses are drawn up outside the South Beach police station to serve as holding pens.

Selective enforcement? At other times of the year, drunks can be found and photographed lying

around or panhandling on the sidewalks, say, in front of the Wolfson Museum, or drinking and

sometimes masturbating on the corner of 9th

and Washington, or panhandling and sleeping on the

sidewalk around the Collins Avenue Walgreens, and sleeping and dealing drugs in the park

across the street from famed Ocean Drive.

If only officers would goosestep down the street in riot gear a couple of days before the flood,

banging batons against shields, letting people know via televised reports of their forceful

showing that they are prepared for trouble. Then apprehensive South Beach residents might

venture out instead of hiding in their homes or fleeing the city if they can afford it. On the other

hand, it is feared that such an honest display of justifiable white paranoia might attract 200,000

angry black wasps to protest that brand of law and order.

Enforcement became increasing lax for each Urban Ghetto Week. The criminal liberties unionhas protested against the selective enforcement of ordinances for so long and so effectively that

lax or no enforcement finally became the rule for blacks during the event, much to the dismay of

a lot of permanent residents of all colors, including blacks, browns, whites, greys, a few reds and

even fewer yellows. This years Urban Ghetto Week saw dense crowds of visiting blacks wander

the streets and beach drinking to their hearts content. Other than sporadic vulgar behavior,

deafening din, reports of gunshots on Ocean Drive, and an ensuing near-riot that frightened

tourists and employees, causing restaurants to shut down and hotels to lock their doors, this

years Urban Ghetto Week was relatively peaceful in terms of arreststhe crime rate naturally

fell with lax enforcement. The noise was god-awful but the Code Compliance Division reported

that fewer complaints were made; that was because nobody could reach the officers when the

phones rang off the hook and the answering system was down or turned offso much for the

citys statistics. No doubt the permissiveness will lead to catastrophic events and chaos when

absolute liberty is realized in the future.

Stayed tuned, and we shall show that the code enforcement of Mr. Castells Code Compliance

Division is far more selective than the Police Departments enforcement of the criminal code.


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We can hardly blame the Police Department when it stands down under orders from the City

Manager under advice from the City Attorney. But we can blame supervision at Compliance as

well as the City Manager for selectivity, including random selectivity or negligence.

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