Comments on: “Perspective” on the crime wave

By: inappropriate guy

inappropriate guy — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:50:48 +0000

re: domestic violence
Somebody should ask the Police Chief if he ignores all victims of domestic violence or only the ones who sassed back the most.

By: Argus

Argus — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:53:39 +0000

This is a damn good post. Props to you Cool for telling it exactly like it is. I read the same comment yesterday morning and thought –

– how nice…crime is only crime when its inconvenient.

By: concerned

concerned — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:57:08 +0000

The swankyest hoods are not immmune Granite Bay http://www.sacbee.com/content/community_news/placer/story/14272146p-15082578c.html Fair Oaks & Eastern http://www.kcra.com/news/9431345/detail.html

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:08:13 +0000

Statistics that anger me-

Sacramento,CA

Population 2006- 457,514

Sworn Officers 2005- 682

Ratio of Sowrn Officers per 1000 citizens- 1.48%

Why would anyone be suprised?

There are more guns and badges at City Hall during council meetings than on the streets in Oak Park. I’ve seen two or three sworn SPD officers ON DUTY inside council chambers. They weren’t there for council testimony. Add to that, two full time armed uniformed security officers (retired cops) AND two or more contracted civilian security officers. Now this? For the past six budget cycles, this Mayor has allowed cuts to patrol staffing in this city. (14 more in the current proposed budget) She allowed $30-50 million in new COPS grants to pay existing cops. Only one former council member fesses up on the record: â€œWe all understood what was going on,Kerth said. â€œThe city, the [federal government] … these werenâ€™t additional cops we were hiring.” No wonder Fargo needs protection. What about us? Will Fargo say, “Let them eat cake!”

When the reality of Sacramento’s upswing in crime lands on the doorsteps of our city’s swankyest ‘hoods, will be the only time Fargo and the rest of the City Admin wake up and take some action.

Too bad really, but thats reality.

By: kit

kit — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:23:55 +0000

And what, may I ask, happens when you accidentally cut off the aforementioned drug dealer, gang member or cage-fighting felon on the freeway? Do they smile and wave you on because you are a good law abiding citizen who offended them accidentally?

By: cooldmz

cooldmz — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:15:40 +0000

Before somebody else says it, clearly one possibility is that he meant when drug dealers kill drug buyers, gang members kill other bangers, or felons kill each other in some sort of caged match on an island in the river, it should not matter as much to the law-abiding citizens. Like I said, that seems like the sort of thing you say in the locker room. Citizens are hardly placated by that, especially if those incidents are on the rise.

By: sac-eats

sac-eats — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:00:30 +0000

OK, I’ll give you the point that the comment itself is a little strange and not quite right, especially the concept that murders are committed by “felons,” which is a somewhat redundant concept. I have a feeling though that the Chief was a little unclear in his reasoning. I bet what he meant was that murders that were gang-related, drug related or committed by felons on felons make up the majority of the crimes, and that unless you’re in a gang, dealing drugs or committing crimes yourself, you don’t have much to worry about.

Of course, I could be wrong, and as a solid citizen I don’t need to worry about being killed unless I happen to run into a felon, in which case my chances of being killed go up exponentially.

By: cooldmz

cooldmz — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:50:20 +0000

sac-eats: I’m definitely *not* calling for more sensitive bedside manner. I’m simply asking that the police chief not bullshit us. He’s literally asking that we ignore all murders committed by felons. That is the stupidest thing i have ever heard!!

By: sac-eats

sac-eats — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:33:30 +0000

In defense of the PoPo chief, I have a feeling that his comments are aimed at a segment of the population that probably hounds him about crime rates and who are rarely affected by it. Yes, crime of any type is a blight on our city, but odds are, the people who clog up the phone lines at HQ are undoubtedly folks with too much time on their hands, and who are statistically the least likely to experience violent crime.

Let’s face it, the folks who have the time to get their complaints aired and their concerns heard by our leaders (elected or otherwise) are normally not representative of the overall population. The overall population usually has too much sh!t to do to everyday. It’s an unfortunate fact of our current political system.

While his comments may have been a little dismissive, I don’t think they go as far as being negligent. Keep in mind too, that if your daily existence involved death, rape, murder, robbery, suicides, manslaughter and drug overdoses, your bedside manner would probably not be super duper sensitive either.

By: HeyMeg

HeyMeg — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:55:38 +0000

What a shameful comment for a police chief to make. It almost sounds like he figures those involved in what he considers to be the majority of murders deserve it – after all if ladies weren’t tangled up in domestic violence murder wouldn’t happen to them. So much for “protect and serve…”