The major union for police officers, the Florida Police Benevolent Association (PBA), announced they are endorsing Republican Ron DeSantis for governor. The endorsement comes four years after the Florida PBA endorsed the Democratic nominee for governor, Charlie Crist. The endorsement also comes amid harsh criticism from DeSantis on how current Democratic nominee Andrew Gillum has […]
According to the FBI’s 2017 crime statistics, Florida State University had the highest violent crime count of any public college in Florida. This was also the case in 2016. See the FBI reports below. The FBI states that university/college crime statistics are affected by a variety of factors. These include demographic characteristics of the surrounding […]
Two recent polls show that Andrew Gillum’s lead over Ron DeSantis in the Florida governors race is significantly down from the 9-point lead reported last week in a Quinnipiac University poll. That poll had Gillum leading DeSantis, 54 percent to 45 percent among likely voters. However, Peter Schorsch, with FloridaPolitics.com, is reporting that a St. […]
One day after lauding the actions of Mayor Andrew Gillum’s handling of the crime problem in Tallahassee, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil revised his remarks. In a statement released by the Gillum campaign and picked up by the Tampa Bay Times, McNeil said, “Under Mayor Andrew Gillum’s leadership, violent crime is down 24 percent, and […]
After the US Attorney issued a statement saying the investigation into the Leon School Board and Jackie Pons had ended without charges, Pons talked to Tallahassee Democrat reporter Jeff Burlew. Burlew asked Pons what his next steps were with regards to the infamous notebook. Pons said he wants to get the truth out. “Does that […]
The Sunday crime report released by the Tallahassee Police Department shows 24 incidents were logged for September 23, 2018. The reported incidents include 12 auto burglaries with three each reported in the Hermitage (Vieux Carre, Constitution) and Piney-Z (Piney-Z Plantation, Piney Village, Plantation View) neighborhoods. There were also six residential burglaries reported. Sunday September 23, […]
Gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum is ignoring it. The state-wide media will not ask questions about it. But Mayor Gillum’s former chief of staff, Dustin Daniels, is campaigning on it. What is it? It is Tallahassee’s increase in murders while Andrew Gillum was the mayor of Tallahassee. On a campaign mailer, Dustin Daniels, who is running […]
Note: The original percentage revision (105%) published was changed using a more conservative calculation method. Late last year the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) released data that showed that Tallahassee had one of the fastest growing Growth Domestic Product’s (GDP) in the state of Florida in 2016 with a growth rate of 4.3%. This growth […]
The current Florida Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, took a beating at the ballot box on August 28th in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Despite the loss, the state-wide media is still unloading on Putnam while ignoring the actions of one gubernatorial candidate still running for office. The report by the Tampa Bay Times on Putnam hiring […]
A review of FDLE crime date shows that during 2017 there was 9.0 murders in the city of Tallahassee for every 100,000 residents. Tallahassee finished the year with 17 murders. The graph below shows that this murder rate ranked third when compared to the 10 largest cities in Florida. Jacksonville (12.2) and Tampa (10.5) were […]