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 [...]
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Marcos Breton’s Sunday column typifies myopia epidemic strangling true progress in Sacramento
By Joe • Jul 27th, 2008 |
EXCLUSIVE: Natomas neighborhood “curfew sweep” nets 36 juvenile delinquents — and their parents
By Joe • Jul 26th, 2008 |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 [...]
More Natomas crime: Time for developers and landlords to join cops and residents in crime fight
By Joe • Jul 11th, 2008 |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) [...]
Start snitching: Time for Sacramento mayor Fargo and council to help community fight delinquency issues
By Joe • Jul 10th, 2008 |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 [...]
Fargo acknowledged concerns about city services last fall, dismissed as “unrealistic”
By Joe • Jul 7th, 2008 |I wrote about this in May, but it bears repeating given the recent burst of criminal activity in Natomas (and the crime that is certain to follow given the significant amount of low income housing in N Natomas–and more on the way in light of “very low income” construction in progress at Del Paso Rd [...]
Read the rest of the story»Eureka! Local paper finally discovers Natomas getting short end of night stick
By Joe • Jul 6th, 2008 |The Bee ran another article on area crime today, this time on the number of cops allotted to each neighborhood, and how Natomas is clearly getting the short end of the night stick. Too bad it took a rash of violent crimes to awake them from their slumber. I just wish the Bee would have [...]
Read the rest of the story»Natomas crime spree continues with another armed robbery
By Joe • Jul 3rd, 2008 |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…
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