Miami New Times: "If you're coming to the beach to have a good time, we encourage you to come find a parking space," Hernandez said. "If not, you're going to stay on this carousel the entire time all the way until you leave Miami Beach again."
Police presence for the weekend will also greatly increase. In addition to a massive nerve center set up to monitor real-time feed from a litany of cameras set up throughout South Beach, as many as 450 officers from numerous county departments will be assigned to the area during the busy 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. shift. Only 20 are typically working in Miami Beach during the same shift.
The increased presence, Hernandez said, ensures that an officer is always within shouting distance and is aimed at preempting the "snowball effect" of minor incidents quickly escalating into more serious problems in the absence of authorities.
"Residents, business owners, and tourists," Hernandez said, "those are the three areas we're concerned with."
As for Herisse's case, it's still open three years later. Hernandez told the Miami Herald in January that the department had finally passed its investigators' findings on to the state attorney's office but that they "are complicated."
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