Now this is the FCNB podcast network. Just Listen to Yourself presents I'm Davis. The town of Miami Beach in Florida has long had a reputation for obnoxious spring breakers and the type of rowdy crime that comes with such an atmosphere. The state of Florida has been steadily gaining a reputation in our nation for being family friendly, but the city of Miami Beach, along with a few others, have not traditionally been places a family might want to visit, particularly during the spring break season. But all that seems to be changing for the Florida Beach city with the election of a new mayor. Stephen Minor was elected on the promise to clean up Miami Beach's rowdy reputation, and he seems to have done just that. Fox News Digital's Carol Markowitz recently visited the city and wrote about her experience. She says police were present, but quietly so it didn't seem like a scary environment that required police presence, just that they were around in case of any problems. The city felt safer, but also cleaner and more organized. Disorderly crowds were nowhere to be seen. I assume they achieved this result with more arrests, but in fact arrests were down this year from previous years. It turns out deterrence played an important role in the city. It ran an ad campaign that had gone viral online Breaking Up with spring Break. A memorandum from Raquel Williams, interim city manager, a few days ago, noted while some of the measures have been employed in the past, the totality of the twenty twenty four spring Break measures was unprecedented, particularly with respect to the Miami Beaches Breaking Up with spring Break campaign that reached a global audience and garnered an estimated nineteen point eight billion media impression. Marcowitz also interviewed the mayor, who told her a united front of government, agencies and local businesses also contributed to making the Breaking Up with spring Break campaign a success. I love this story because it's an example of a very simple principle of civilized society that has been deliberately abandoned by most cities in America these days, the principle of no My friend, veteran reporter and columnist Andrew Malcolm once told me a story of how his father scolded him for speaking harshly to some adult neighbors. One day. Andrew was ten at the time, his father told him, we don't do that here, and it was enough to make an impression on Andrew that has lasted all the way into his present eightieth year on this earth. There are a lot of policy and political issues that need to be dealt with in order to wrestle our current crime wave under control. But the simplest and most basic start to dealing with the problem is for grown ups to gather enough courage to stand up and say no, we don't do that here in Miami Beach. Just the community sentiment was enough to make a huge difference. Everyone agreed we don't do that here, and so few people decided to even try it. It is time for Americans to remind our less civil neighbors of the most American sentiment I've ever heard, as voiced through Andrew Malcolm's father over seventy years ago, we don't do that here, so stop. It sounds so simple, but maybe the answers here aren't that complicated. After all, Our resounding answer to the lunacy engulfing our nation right now should be this first and always, no, this is America. We don't do that here. I'm Kia Davison. I'm just saying. This has been a presentation of the FCB podcast Network, where real talk lives. Visit us online at FCB podcasts dot com.
