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Opa-locka has new police chief — or does it?
There's a new chief in town, but Opa-locka apparently doesn't know it.
And neither do the two people who have been — and think they still are — chief and deputy chief.
In a quagmire that's weird even by Opa-locka standards, North Miami's mayor, Andre Pierre, announced Tuesday in a newsletter emailed to about 100 constituents that two of North Miami's veteran officers have been tapped to run the police department in neighboring Opa-locka, a city that has struggled for years with poverty, crime and corruption.
It's not an easy job. Opa-locka has had a revolving door of police chiefs: 12 in the past two decades.
But if Opa-locka has a new chief, someone didn't tell the city manager, who is in charge of hiring.
Kelvin Baker insisted Wednesday that he hasn't hired anyone to replace the force's current chief, Cheryl Cason or the deputy chief, Antonio Sanchez.At a commission meeting Wednesday evening, a resident expressed outrage over the report, published online by The Miami Herald earlier in the day, that the city had hired a new chief — at least, according to North Miami's mayor. Opa-locka Mayor Myra Taylor said that it was not true and that you cannot believe everything you read.
Cason is planning on retiring, Baker said, but they have a long way to go before hiring her replacement. The Miami-Herald was unsuccessful in reaching Cason Wednesday.
"The rumor has taken on a life of its own,'' said Baker, who was hired six months ago amid a series of scandals that had tainted the city's police force. At the time, several state probes were underway involving allegations of criminal wrongdoing on the force.
In the newsletter, Pierre extended his best wishes to North Miami Police Cmdr. Jeffrey Key, who he said has been hired as Opa-locka's chief, and officer Peter Cruz, who has been hired as his deputy.
Both officers have already had their send-offs and have left their current posts.
"They've submitted their letters of resignation to the police chief," Pierre said. "I think they had a goodbye party for them already."
Key, who began his police career in Opa-locka, is the son-in-law of the late Robert Ingram, Opa-locka's former mayor. Cruz, who ran North Miami's Police Athletic League, has had a number of internal affairs complaints against him since joining NMPD in 1985. Florida Department of Law Enforcement records show two complaints: one for perjury and another for providing false statements. Both were dismissed. The Miami-Herald was unsuccessful in reaching either Key or Cruz Wednesday.
North Miami's city manger, Stephen Johnson, confirmed that the officers have been hired in Opa-locka.
"I don't' know about what Opa-locka is saying now. I can only go by what our officers are telling us," Johnson said.
Pierre said he is surprised that Baker is calling the appointments rumors.
"I spoke to them personally,'' Pierre said, of the two NMPD officers. "They are going to work in the city of Opa-locka. I think everything has been negotiated, including salary."
The officers announced their new jobs sometime last week at a command staff meeting, Pierre added.
Baker called the announcement by the two officers "overzealous" and that the information has been "taken out of context.''
Baker said that while he has had "informal discussions" with several candidates — including Key and Cruz — for the chief's job, and said he intends to conduct a more "formal process" for selecting a new chief.
Until then, he said Sanchez remains on the job, and there is no effort to push him out.
"He is a professional and he knows his business,'' Baker said.
He said there is no date set for Cason's retirement.
Cason has had a stormy history with the department, including allegations of drug use, which were eventually dismissed.
Sanchez was hired little more than a year ago to clean up the department. Since then, many of the officers he has tried to fire have appealed their firings and suspensions only to be returned to the force.
Sanchez, who was still on the job Wednesday, declined to comment.
Baker, the former manager in North Miami Beach, acknowledged the ongoing efforts by Cason and Sanchez to reform the department.
An investigation by The Herald, published in September, detailed the department's long history of corruption and the city's culture of political cronyism that some allege has seeped into the day-to-day operation of the police force. City jobs, including police officer positions, are often engineered by city commissioners, according to records obtained by the newspaper.
Among other things, the mayor's son, Johane Taylor, was hired as a police officer despite failing his police exam twice and having a criminal past involving domestic battery. He resigned last year when it was discovered that the police department failed to do a thorough background check.
Former city managers and police chiefs have long said that the city's incestuous nature has led to appointments based on who has political pull with members of city council.
Mayor Taylor has repeatedly denied this, saying the city is a victim of bad press.
Cason, who has been with the force for nearly 30 years, has had 22 disciplinary actions and was fired for testing positive for cocaine twice. She was rehired in 1999 after reaching a settlement with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that allowed her to keep her police certification. Cason has said the tests were tainted. She was promoted to chief in 2008, but was suspended briefly in 2011 when she allegedly failed to report an accident involving her city vehicle.
Sanchez, a former assistant chief in Biscayne Park, was brought on board by Cason in January 2012. Since then, he has systematically been sifting through police files in an effort to weed out bad cops. At the time of his hiring, there were 41 open internal affairs investigations on the 58-member force. Ten police officers were fired or forced to resign, among them Sgt. German "G.B." Bosque, who has the worst internal affairs record of any police officer in the state of Florida.
Bosque is appealing his firing, and several other cops have gotten their jobs back.
Sanchez's critics, including John Rivera, head of the Miami-Dade Police Benevolent Association, said that Sanchez has been too heavy handed.
Baker, however, said that the city's crime rate, once the highest in the nation, has continued to plummet under Cason and Sanchez.
"It's obviously quite a unique city,'' Baker said. "We are combating some of the crime issues and historical issues we are trying to put behind us.''
Here is the excerpt from the email blast North Miami Mayor Andre Pierre sent out about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday:
Headline: Two of North Miami's Finest to Lead Opa-locka Police Department
"Mayor Pierre congratulates two of North Miami's Police Department's officers as they embark on their new careers at the city of Opa-locka Police Department. Commander Jeffrey Key, who began working at NMPD in 1992, has been appointed as Chief of Police. Coincidentally, Key began his law enforcement career at the Opa-locka Police Department, and gained much respect in the community for his great way of communicating well with others.
"Commander Peter Cruz, who has served in different departments in the city of North Miami, has been appointed as Deputy Chief of Police for the city of Opa-locka Police Department. Cruz began working for the NMPD in 1985 and was the first director of the Police Athletic League, the non-profit organization which creates programs for the youth in the city, ages 8-20.
"Mayor Pierre extends his best wishes to Commander Key and Commander Cruz and much success on their new appointments."
Miami Herald writer Janey Tate contributed to this report.
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|Reviews for Return to Heavenly Host
| gteamonkey chapter 8 . 8/6/2014
that was great! hope you post the next chapter soon! :)
| Deltahalo241 chapter 8 . 7/26/2014
I'm a bit confused, is Aki supposed to have gone to Heavenly Host with the original group? or did she go with someone else?
| Spudly777 chapter 8 . 7/25/2014
I think there's some stuff you need to know:
1: Hinoe is dead
2: Shinozaki is actually Ayumi's mom's maiden name. The Shinozaki family only gives birth to woman.
3: A couple years after a child of the Shinozaki family is born, the father dies.
4: In Book of Shadows, there is the Shinozaki family tree, and it probably had Aki's mom on it, and since she's a woman, he face on the tree would not be marked off. You can say Ayumi didn't notice this, but I thought that I'd tell you anyways.
| Anii Ayers chapter 8 . 7/25/2014
This is really great! Please update soon!
| Deltahalo241 chapter 6 . 7/19/2014
The end to this chapter is similar to Book of Shadows
where Ayumi finds out she is related Sachiko and Yoshie Shinozaki
| blueallstar01 chapter 4 . 7/18/2014
Why is everyone on a first-name basis. :o.
| Deltahalo241 chapter 3 . 6/11/2014
Okay so far, seems to happen a bit quickly though, try to slow the pacing a bit. Also the school has a dresscode, so Aki couldn't enter like that, you could make an excuse like 'she hasn't got the uniform yet' but otherwise your clothing descriptions should just be casual clothes for the weekend.
| Akito Sohta chapter 2 . 3/10/2014
They're both in bed... I bet Miki comes In and sees them like that. :3
Great story so far. *Brofist*
| SuperAwesomePandaKitty chapter 3 . 3/29/2013
I'm loving it so far, please update! :)
| DJTBProductions13 chapter 3 . 1/20/2013
interesting story so far. Could use a bit of work, but still... it's pretty good. I like it.
| NeverRegretAnything chapter 3 . 11/18/2012
Awww I just love Ayumi and Yoshiki!
| Veteran 2002 chapter 2 . 10/23/2012
you did great so far. i liked ayumi x yoshiki. 5/5 plz continue if nescessary to you. i'll wait even a million years. :)
| Kittynip chapter 2 . 9/27/2012
AwwwwwI've been watching cry play this(dat voice) and this is one of my fav. Parings. Of couse I couldn't wait for cry to finish it and just read what happend aaaannnd I got side tracked. This is really cute. A bit short I will admit. But cute none the less. I wish this section was a bit bigger and that I wasn't so busy with my other storys...getting side tracked. Hopefully you update soon so I can see more fluffy goodness.
| The Hopeful Komaeda chapter 2 . 9/24/2012
SO short MAKE longer sereously
| DestinyHeart13 chapter 2 . 9/23/2012
Too lazy to log in
Kawaii I have been a fan of Corpse Party for a while and I support Naomi x Satoshi and Ayumi x Yoshiki! Kawaii I wonder what u have in store for those kids...kihihihihihi
May Mayu, Sakutaro, Yui-sensei rest in peace...
And let us not forget Seiko...who's only desire was to fondle Naomi's breasts...Seiko

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Roger Nordin
Lives in Stockholm, Sweden
Works as a IT Consultant
Has a website at http://www.flickr.com/photos/29569205@N00/
Joined on Dec 27, 2002
About me:
Hi there, had may fair shares of digital compacts, starting from the 1.3Mpixel Canon Powershot A50, and then later a decade or so with Canon dSLRs from 10D to 7D. Then I made the next transition to mirrorless...
I am now shooting with my mobile phone, my Micro Four Thirds system, or occationally the Canon 70D which my wife uses most of the time otherwise... Most of the time, the DMC-GM1 is in my jacket pocket. If I going somewhere dedicated to take photos I probably grab my DMC-GX7 and/or the OM-D E-M5.
Shooting mostly RAW and using Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop to finish off my photos. Spends more time at the computer than behind the camera I think.
Langusta: Maybe I'm paranoid, but somehow I feel safer having my photos on the (local) external hdd (2nd hdd for backup of more important ones). Btw - I paid only once...
To have protection against theft and fire, I sure hope you bring that external HDD to another physical location!
art99: Where's the 4K video feature ??
Who shoots videos with the intention of NOT viewing them 5 years later? Shoot now, throw away tomorrow? The still images of my first digital camera, a 1.3Mpixel Powershot A50, doesn't even fill a standard computer screen or HDTV these days without upscaling, but I still may go back to relive the memories from the trips we made together. But I do miss the clarity and image quality from my current cameras when viewing these images. So why wouldn't we want our memories of today to be saved in 4K mode for the future?
Rick_Hunter: KEN ROCKWELL USES THIS. (enough said)
PerfectlyClear works wonders of giving the Wi-fi-transferred-on-the-go photos a nice pop before uploading online, without spending too much time and trouble. Clearly a worthwhile app to have in the toolbox! Never use the portrait mode though, which ironically seem to be the only thing people here are looking at. Why everyone here seem to be into fashion photography is beyond me. :-)
tennjed: It is as if Panasonic marketing does things specifically to spite customers. I have, and love, the GM1.....When I can use it, which is any time there is no sunshine in the area. I was hoping for the GM5, or something similar, since purchase of the GM1. Now, Panasonic decides they are not going to sell this interchangable lens camera, body-only. I do not need, and will not pay for, another identical kit lens. At a bare minimum, they should offer a kit version with the newer 35-100 lens.
It is probably foolish for me to rant here. My purpose is to make Panasonic aware of the fact that I- a loyal Panasonic customer- want a body-only option for this camera. How insane must I be to think that Panasonic would monitor a consumer based site like DPreview?
Here in Sweden you can find several resellers selling both the camera and the kit lens as split-box offers, at much lower cost than the camera-only or lens-only retail prices to boot. I just picked up the GM1 for 1990 SEK (about $195 USD exkl sales tax - it was introduced at 7990 SEK camera body cost) excluding the kit lens, and I found the kit lens "bulk" at another retailer for same price. A lovely package at a lovely price. Here, Panasonic cameras are notorious at being sold on close-out rock bottom prices a year or so after introduction, unlike Olympus who hold their prices much longer. Guess it may be because of the rate that Panasonic spits out new models.
If you need to take concert photos, just flip the LCD partly out *up*, and hold the camera upside down and start taking photos, getting an excellent view of the partly tilted *down* LCD. Be creative! :-)
Kedacai: I can not catch the idea
"The hallmark feature of the LX100 is its Four Thirds sensor which, as we mentioned, is significantly larger than any other zoom compact save for the PowerShot G1 X II and its predecessor. If Panasonic used the entire 16 megapixel Four Thirds sensor it would be twice the size of the 1" sensors found on the likes of the Canon PowerShot G7 X and Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100, but the camera's multi-aspect ratio requires a crop, so the difference is actually 1.5X"
What does muti aspect ratio mean?How does it affect the actual COMS area?
Well, 3:2 and 16:9 ratios are actually *wider* than 4:3, something that would NEVER happen if they were just a crop of 4:3. I.e. 24mm equivalent focal length is maintained even throughout the apect ratios at the wide end. Just cropping to get other ratios would make it more narrow, i.e. not retain a "consistent diagonal angle of view".
remo1232: Yes OK, they want us to support. How can you support a product that is not even in the market?
Open your wallet
Spectro: Every time you update Lightroom it is redownloading 872mb. why can't they just do like window little update for just the newer codec.
That must be the silliest single reason to base your choice of workflow on that I have ever seen
dcperspective: No IS No Sale for me.
Leaving out IS (or OS, as Sigma likes to call their variant), gives them the perfect release to sell this lens again to the target group a year or two later, now upgraded with OS. Makes perfect money making sense to me :)
keeponkeepingon: Wow. Y'all need to fire your "fact checker".
The LF1 has a Q.menu
c labs noted:
"Q.Menu system which allows you to adjust exposure compensation, Step Zoom, aspect ratio, resolution, sensitivity, white balance, AF mode, movie quality and monitor brightness using either the front or rear dials. "
And your own picture shows the Q.menu button on the lower right:
It makes me wonder if you actually spent much time with the LF1?
So your major gripe then would be a lack of exposure flash compensation? For a point and shoot (to me) that's not really a big deal.
It's quite interesting to see what a different opinion PhotographyBLOG came up with for the LF1 - "We've been very pleasantly surprised by the LF1, so much so that we can highly recommend what is an excellent compact camera."
But DP Review has to be commended to find those niggles - no flash exposure adjustment is just lazy and sucks big time. Really NO excuse to fail to provide it on what is supposed to be a camera above the bottom consumer level compacts!
On the other end, Panasonic doesn't provide it even on the entrylevel MFT GFx series of system cameras either, so it comes as no surprise if you know Panasonic... It's there on their LX series and higher spec:ed MFT system cameras, though.
justin23: assuming of course it comes to your device... I love my android phone but OS updates take forever to reach the phone after android has been released.
No it's a platform issue. I love my Android phone, but fragmentation is real, and a true downside of Android as a platform. Having to load custom ROMs onto it is not a solution, it is merely a workaround around a real problem.
The price difference is too low to have a serious impact on the GoPro (not offering any killer features beyond the GoPro). A real GoPro killer is either killing it with some fantastic features the GoPro doesn't offer at a compare pricepoint, OR approaching the same feature set for a fraction of the pricepoint. GoPro is MUCH too solid a brand to be touched by a me-too offering at a me-too pricing point!
A latter camera is the $70 USD Mobius camera, which a lot of people doing RC photography could find good-enough to do areal 1080p 30fps or 720p 60fps video with real-time video output to feed a FPV transmitter, where previously the only option was to save and pony up for GoPro camera. It's hardly a killer, but at least it's an interesting option.
bigdaddave: A wideangle lens and Photomatix. Big deal.
I didn't see YOU post them......... I am glad the original artist DID!
rxbot: Pocket lint has a review with raw and jpeg samples. Their conclusion is E-P-5 wins on IQ but G7 wins on package because the Pen5 does not have the built in EVF so adding a finder adds a lot to the package cost.Auto focus speed both cameras are blazing fast. Personally I will wait till the next versions of XE-1 and Nex6 come out as I like 16MP APS-C sensors.
From what I have been reading the GX7 sensor gives lower high ISO noise at the expense of earlier highlight clipping vs the E-M5. Seems to me the sensors are very close, just that Panasonic vs Olympus used different approaches to how to tune the sensor. Doesn't surprise me either, my GF3 and GX1 has very abrupt highlight clipping and limited highlight recovery compared to my OM-D E-M5, which has just amazing highlight recovery and resistance to clipping. I am so amazed I sold my Canon APS-C stuff, I just didn't see a point sticking with it at all.
Treeshade: Strange that many comments call for a fixed prime lens m4/3. Wouldn't such a camera be at a direct competition with APS-C sensor - GR, Coolpix A, and X100s? Prehaps true pocketability with sunken lens is the answer. Could Panasonic put a touch screen, a m4/3 sensor, and a 17.5mm/2.8 AF lens in a 30mm thick casing?
@Jorginho that is just plain nonsense. The OM-D E-M5 gives me such much more usable high ISO performance compared to the noisy Canon 7D APS-C sensor. Duh! And better usable DR as well...
Mescalamba: CV is going to make (or at least they try) 42.5/0.95 .. price not different tho. But its faster (85/1.9 equiv).
Or you can try SpeedBooster and C/Y 50/1.4 (should be close to bit odd 70/2 lens).
@marike6: "That's assuming that small size is something you want."
Well, if you are not interested in Micro 4/3, then what is your interest here?
So tiresome to see all this trolling from insecure people interested just to get the world to agree THEY have the "right system" - and others must either just plain wrong, or maybe even just plain stipid? Geez!
Naydooner: Bought one a few weeks ago after owning the original model.
Where the original 100 fell down was in shooting my grand kids:
the pic I was expecting... was not the one I got. I was that disappointed that I sold my X100 and just on the strength of the first reviews, quickly bought the new S model. Guess what? Same problem! There's an inherent shutter lag here: that shows markedly when taking pics of the fleeting facial expressions of children. The cam missed the shot a good 9 out of 10 times. Not like my Sony A77 or my Sony A900! For that reason alone I took the X100S back to the sellers.
Perhaps the next iteration will fix this: that criticism aside I loved the camera and for everything else including my passion... landscapes, it worked superbly.
For shooting active kids...NO! For everything else... incomparable! Like I said; I am eagerly awaiting the third iteration of the X100!
Interesting. I find that using the OVF, I many times think I just missed the expression when pressing the shutter, the image taken has just captured (can be seen already in the brief preview that flashes by in the viewfinder as the shot is taken) is that fleeing expression, just as if the camera took the shot before I pressed the shutter almost. I guess that is one clear advantage with an OVF compared to EVF. Maybe you were using the EVF or LCD? Try the OVF optical view instead? I find it works really well actually photographing my daughter, and trust me, she can sometimes have many different expressions in just a couple of seconds...lol
Ybor: Fuji makes wonderful mirrorless cameras that have some funky quirky issues. They are better than Sony mirrorless line from my ownership and usage of both in past several years.
make sure you have a warranty because you may need it with a Fuji X camera. After saying this I say that the X100S is a useless model when you have the X-E1 and lens selection.
I am sure the X-E1 is a nice camera. That said, it is a different beast than the X100S. The X-E1 does not have the supernice Hybrid viewfinder with an optical view option, nor does it have the wonderful silent leaf shutter with the magically fast flash sync speeds, that with a press-of-a-button ND filter (another missing feature of the X-E1) allows you to shoot outdoor sunlit portraits and fill-flash withs packed with loads of creamy bokeh.
dylanbarnhart: Sad. Usually we would wonder how well 'Camera Shake Reduction' filter works.
I am pretty sure that Focus Magic (availaböe as a 64 bit plugin) does a better job anyways, at both removing camera or motion blur, as well as fixing out of focus images!
Doug Pardee: The big questions: what about Lightroom? Will it be frozen, too? What about Raw file updates to it?
Yeah. Lightroom 5... what about Lightroom 6? Is version 5 the end of the line?


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