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This Week's Tourist Homicide...
Rakebrand's murder seemed to repudiate Miami's efforts over the past six months to protect its most precious industry, tourism, which last year pumped $7.3 billion into the local economy. The highly publicized death of another German tourist last April, who was run over in front of her mother and two children in a similar hit-and-rob attack, led the city to install new streetlights, post road signs to help visitors avoid unsafe areas and set up a task force that does everything from providing escorts for lost tourists to patrolling under cover to catch would-be thieves...
Partly as a result, tourist robberies in Dade County have dropped 80% since February. But Miami's latest outrage seems to have crossed a psychological threshold in the minds of residents and guests alike. More than 30,000 wanted felons are now on the streets in Dade County alone, and people are losing patience with a revolving-door justice system that rotates criminals back onto the streets practically as fast as they are caught. Miami has the highest violent-crime rate of any American city, and even former priests have been known to pack pistols in their briefcases...
...other side of Florida, a German tourist was shot and killed by robbers as he and his wife drove in from the Miami airport. Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand was shot in the back after he refused to stop when a van bumped his rental car from behind on the freeway. A young couple and an accomplice have been charged in the murder...
...city is burned again as yet another German tourist is killed in a robbery