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…