Wednesday, November 29, 2006

CM PRESS # 17



HAVE THE SEEDS OF THE SABOTAGE OF IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT IN COSTA MESA JUST BEEN PLANTED?

The Daily Pilot is asking for reader comments about having an ICE agent stationed in the Costa Mesa jail.
http://www.dailypilot.com/

In the article on the subject in the Pilot today, it sounds as though Councilmember Katrina Foley is okay with having an ICE agent in the jail. Hmmm. Does that give you pause? It should.

Here's a letter that we sent to the Pilot, but which probably won't be published.

11/29/06
Editor Daily Pilot:

Re: ICE agent in CM jail

The problem with the plan to put an ICE agent in Costa Mesa's jail--and do nothing else--is that this agent will only look at suspects who are arrested and actually brought to the jail.

Suspects who are caught and released by street cops won't be seen by the ICE agent.

And, it's at the street level where this plan can be ruined by a small clique of illegal alien friendly cops--some of whom may be holdovers from a past administration--who have political motivations and agendas.

Don't say this can't happen. It's already happening with some cops who look the other way when suspected illegal aliens violate our quality of life laws.

If some of our local political cops, who are friends with Katrina Foley and Linda Dixon and their pals, want to sabotage the ICE effort, they'll just bring fewer suspected illegal aliens to the jail.

Then, in a few months, ICE will look at the statistics and think having an agent in the jail isn't needed. As a result, they may reassign him someplace else and Costa Mesa will be back to square one as a city that is an illegal alien sanctuary city full of violent criminals.

It became very clear in the just past election that there are some CMPD officers who are up to their eyeballs in local politics and who wanted to take over the City Council for soft of crime candidates and defeat improvement minded candidates.

One reader of the CM PRESS said she was afraid to put Mansoor and Leece signs in her yard because there were cops going up and down the street handing out Garlich and Scheafer literature and acting in an aggressive manner while they did so. This frightened her. She wondered if having Mansoor and Leece signs in her yard would cause cops to not respond to her calls or respond very slowly if she needed the police. She also wondered if the cops might retaliate by giving her traffic tickets for trumped up violations.

Add to the above concerns, the fact that more than 70% of the cops who work for Costa Mesa don't even choose to live in this city. Thus, they have a less visceral and personal stake in keeping this city safe for citizens.

Cops who live in a city, and who have their spouses shopping at local stores and who have their kids in local schools, are probably more interested in getting illegal alien criminals off the streets that those who are just punching a time clock.

The city of Boston, Mass. fires cops and city employees if they don't live in that city. We can't do that in California, but we can encourage our police officers to move here where they're getting paid.

/s/
CM PRESS

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