First, I have some good news to report today. On a positive note, police officers brought in 13 Natomas area truants last week. According to Sac PD: “Most of them [were] taken to the Inderkum Attendance Center where there are community based organizations/social workers that attempt to get to the root cause of a students [...]

You scream, I scream, we ALL scream: “GUN!!!!”
Wonder if Fargo, Dickinson, and Marcos Breton’s super duper new anti-gang tax would have prevented any of these crimes?
I’m pretty sure all these new crimes reported by the PD all occurred in Natomas–or at least in that general vicinity. I have not included a slew of other [...]

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 [...]

The following North Patrol calls were observed Saturday and Sunday night by a vigilant (bored? ) Joe Sacramento reader. Before I type another word, I have to say that while criminal activity can be heavy on the North Sacramento beat at times, I am extremely impressed by the work our police department is doing.
As [...]

Updated Saturday, July 19. In what is perhaps the most violent summer in Natomas history, two MORE violent crimes have been reported by Natomas victims, both committed early yesterday morning. These were not gleaned from a police email, these were reported by the Sacramento Bee this evening (thank you Sacramento Bee).
For those counting, the newest [...]

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Hopefully Mayor Fargo’s meeting tonight at the Homecoming condoplex with Natomas residents  will be more encouraging than the one shown here, videotaped by youths in nearby Kokomo Park and uploaded to youtube.com in the past year.
Along with Mayor Heather Fargo, representatives from the school [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]