Well this is interesting.

I opined in a blog post yesterday that Monday’s police involved shooting in North Miami might have something to do with the fact that the NMPD recently failed its accreditation assessment while former Chief of Police Leonard Burgess was still at the helm.

As it turns out, I wasn’t the only person who picked up on that “coincidence.”

Miami New Times reporter Tim Elfrink posted an article today, Two Months Before Charles Kinsey Shooting, Chief Resigned and North Miami Police Failed State Test,  also connected those same dots.

The opening paragraph of the article reads:

Hundreds of thousands of viewers have now watched a video of Charles Kinsey on his back with his arms in the air and asked, “How could police have shot this man?” A recent 14-page report from state inspectors might offer one hint.

The New Times article discussed the results the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation’s Assessment Report of the North Miami Police Department, which I wrote about in even greater detail in my blog post on June 28, 2016, Chief Lenny, Born to Lose!

The reporter also picked up on the fact that Chief Lenny’s abrupt resignation shortly after the department’s failed accreditation assessment “indicates the intense state of disarray at the department.”

No kidding!

For nearly two years, I wrote blog after blog about the complete incompetence of the former NMPD Chief of Police, and even warned that there would be repercussions long after his departure.

It now certainly appears that the department’s failure to pass the assessment, which included deficiencies in weapons training, may have contributed to Monday’s disastrous shooting of an unarmed man.  The fact that a member of the SWAT team allegedly  missed his intended target just might be a clue how well that weapons training was going.

Just saying.

As the New Times pointed out, the three day accreditation was going so poorly that the Commission’s assessment team “made a recommendation to the Executive Staff to consider withdrawing from the process until all standards could be brought into compliance.”

Tim Elfrink even spoke with the Commission’s executive director, Lori Mizell, who admitted that “withdrawing from the test is not a common move for a department.”  She also confirmed him that the North Miami Police Department is no longer accredited.

I received several phone calls today advising me that Channel 7 also reported on North Miami Police Department’s loss of its accreditation in conjunction with its non-stop coverage of Monday’s shooting.

Interesting conclusion, no?

Although Lenny’s epic failures as the Chief of the North Miami Police Department are now yesterday’s headlines, his tainted legacy will live on in infamy.

Stephanie