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 one of the most disjointed, bass-ackwards opinion columns in the history of the Bee, the oft-maligned Breton has leveraged his Sunday column space to urge Bee…

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 areas like Natomas where teens do whatever they want at night.” I even emailed Elk grove bloggers and city council people asking them to shed…

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) - North Natomas
Two people were inside Jamba Juice in the Raley’s shopping center Park Place in N Natomas.  3 suspects (All 15 years old) approached…

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 the globe in search of the solution to global warming than in Sacramento searching for solutions to public safety ills, Elk Grove is actually doing something about their…

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…

AMW is one of my favorite shows (surprise!). I stood a few feet away from John Walsh when he and his film crew came to Sacramento a few months ago to film the segment on the NorCal Rapist who struck in Natomas Park in 2006. Mr. Walsh is an extraordinary citizen, and his compelling show has done miracles for public safety.

But one aspect of the show that has troubled me for a while is the fact that almost every time the producers…