In early January 2025, when Republican Rosie Cordero-Stutz got sworn into office as Miami-Dade’s new sheriff, it was an historic occasion: the first time in nearly 60 years that voters got to elect a top law enforcement leader.
The elected position had been abolished by voters in 1966, in rejection of the wholesale corruption that riddled the office. A statewide referendum approved in 2018 dictated that voters would again be required to elect its sheriff.
In a ceremony at Miami Dade College’s North Campus on…