The good news is that Sacramento has a new public safety watchdog in Lt Marcos Breton. The bad news is that he’s barking up the wrong political tree and doing the same thing all the other business-as-usual dinosaurs in this town do: Gang up on and condemn those who oppose their ideas.
In what must be [...]

Note: make sure you read the whole article because the Friday night law enforcement calls follow the article
Frequent Joe Sac readers know I have been hollering about getting a curfew in Sacramento for the last two weeks. I previously cited Elk Grove’s crackdown on delinquent teens, and urged Sacramento to do the same “especially in [...]

This just in from the Sacramento Police Department. As you read this, picture yourself in a Jamba Juice or Starbucks with a loved one, minding your own business, looking forward to a nice cool smoothie on a hot day, perhaps after a long day at work…
(222727) 7-10-08 @ 9:18 am, 4640 Natomas Blvd (Jamba Juice) [...]

It’s 10pm, do you know where your kids are? Apparently a lot of parents do not, because Sacramento has a crime problem. No, scratch that. Sacramento has a juvenile delinquency problem, and hence a crime problem.
Elk Grove has the same problem. But unlike the City of Sacramento, where the out-of-touch mayor spends more time traveling [...]

Updated” July 4, 2008, 3:13pm. In this space I earlier reported there had been two more armed robberies in the past two days per the Sacramento Police. I received an email from the police today saying they had made a mistake and reported two robberies when there had only been one…

SACRAMENTO, CA - In 1864 the union army attacked a confederate regiment named “Hood’s Corps” (after General John Bell Hood). In this particular battle, Hood’s regiment prevailed, despite several attempts on the part of the union to dislodge them. The landmark pictured at left marks the location where the battles occurred, and Hood’s victories remain [...]