Monday, December 10, 2007

CM PRESS # 249



CMPD REORGANIZING?

At Tuesday's City Council Study Session, the CMPD will present a power point presentation with the title "Police Department Deployment Model."

Since there is no introduction to this presentation that we could find on the City's Web site, we're not completely sure why this is being presented or what the Council will be asked to do. We're not even sure how much of this is really new since there are no before and after comparisons of the organizational structures discussed.

However, it appears, from our cursory reading of the power point presentation, that the City will be split into two Areas with a north/south split instead of the present three areas.

Area 1, which appears from the map in the presentation to be roughly all of the City from Victoria Street south to the Newport Beach border, will be commanded by Lt. Paul Dondero

Area 2, which appears to include everything north of Area 1, will be commanded by Lt.Marty Carver.

Lt. Clay Epperson (Return to Reason supporter in the last election who went door to door handing out literature supporting Mansoor and Leece's opponents) will be the Special Operations Lieutenant and, will be "Accountable/Responsible for all specialty assignments and responsibilities including: Special Enforcement Detail, Gang Detail, School Resource Officers, Park Rangers, S.W.A.T., Research/Development pertaining to Pole Cameras, CCTV and other video surveillance system technology, Tactical Event Planning/Mobile Field Force.

Lt. Bob Ciszek will be the Administrative Lieutenant and will handle things such as training, scheduling and most back room matters at the CMPD.

Here's the LINK to the power point presentation.

The CM PRESS will try to be at the meeting to get additional information/corrections and we'll report what we learn late Tuesday or early Wednesday.

As with most citizens of this city, we want the most effective police organization that will help rid our city of the gangs (which are overwhelmingly Latino) and the illegal alien criminals who enable them.

This means that we need officers who understand the true nature of the problem and who don't have personal agendas and biases that blind them to the real problem.

In this "seeing the real problem" category, you may recall that several months ago, the CMPD presented a report on gangs to the City Council in which there was no mention that most of the gangs in the City are Latino.

In fact, the only ethnicity that was mentioned was "whites" as the report veered off into a discussion of white prison gangs, even though the report itself said that white gangs are not a problem in the city. It would have made as much sense to discuss the Japanese Yakuza, Russian Mafia or Chinese Tongs.

Some observers believe that mentioning white prison gangs that aren't a problem in Costa Mesa, while not even once using the terms "Latino," "Hispanic," or "illegal aliens" in connection with gangs and gang members that are a problem, was an attempt to make it appear to a casual reader as though gangs in Costa Mesa are equal opportunity employers, when that is not the case at all. Again, most gangs and gang members in Costa Mesa are Latino and many have links to illegal aliens.

If you want to solve a problem, you first have to correctly identify what the problem is.

One word that jumped out at us from the power point presentation is "stakeholders." Yup, that liberal term that, in Costa Mesa, is so often used to lump illegal aliens in with citizens, appears in the power point presentation.
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LOFTS ON BAKER STREET

The no-Planning Commission is expected to approve 22 lofts on Baker Street west of Bristol at its meeting tonight. Here's the LINK.
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MORE GRAFFITI IN PAULARINO PARK

Remember the CM PRESS report about the graffiti that was carved into a tree in Paularino Park and how an officer with the CMPD gang detail tried to deny the tipster a reward when the perp was arrested?

Well, there's more graffiti now carved into that very same tree just below the old graffiti which, of course, is still there and very much visible, and will be for many years.

It's the broken window syndrome. Like begets like.

No doubt, any tipsters who saw this new graffiti being carved into the tree may not want to go through all the trouble it takes to report this to the CMPD.
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CROSS TRAIN CMPD FOR ICE FUNCTIONS

The CM PRESS still believes that the City Council should have the CMPD cross train some officers to interview suspected illegal aliens.

We understand that the ICE agent in charge of the LA office who put the ICE agent in the CMPD jail has been or is about to be transferred to a different jurisdiction.

Will the new agent in charge pull the ICE agent from our jail? Does the City have a backup plan to keep getting the illegal alien criminals off our streets?
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