Thursday, September 18, 2008

CM PRESS # 489


COULD THIS BE THE REASON ICE DETAINERS ARE DOWN?

In Joseph Serna's column about ICE in the almost daily Daily Pilot today,we read this:

"Many officers did not find the mayor’s proposal to be a wise choice, with one officer saying the proposed enforcement was essentially racist because the idea behind it was to target Latinos, testimony shows."

Good cops/bad cops
There have been rumors in the community that there may be some in the CMPD who resist enforcing laws against suspected illegal aliens except when the laws broken are very serious.

Some citizens believe that this is a result of biases or political agendas and that it is one of the reasons why Costa Mesa has such a high violent crime rate and why Latino gangs seem to be flourishing and growing in our city.

Little crimes lead to big crimes--one broken window leads to more broken windows
In fact, we know that at least one politician was motivated, at least in part, to run for the office partly because of problems in the politician's neighborhood that some CMPD officers often failed to handle and would often clear with an "unable to locate," report.

Be specific and document your calls
The CM PRESS suggests that when citizens call the CMPD at 1-(714) 754-5252, to report violations, that they do the following in addition to writing down the date and time and a word or two about the violation:

1. Ask for and write down the CMPD's Operator Number (the operator is actually a civilian in the call center). They have to tell you this.

2. Ask for and write down the incident number. They have to tell you this. This number is evidence that the operator actually put your complaint into the computer system. Once there, it has to be "cleared," by an officer.

3. Call back in a half hour or hour and ask how incident number______was cleared and which officer responded and cleared the call. Was it cleared with "unable to locate"?

4. If the problem you complained about involves a recurring problem, do the above each time you call about it.

5. Then, when you have actual records with dates, times, etc., you can take your complaint to the Police Chief, the City Manager and the City Council. If you don't have things documented, you may just be blown off.

You need specific information, not a general and vague: "They didn't do their job, but I don't know who didn't do it and I don't know the date or time they didn't do it and I don't know when I called it in or who I spoke to."

We know of incidents where officers have cleared calls with "unable to locate" while the officers were observed to be directly in front of the violators that they were reporting they couldn't locate and while the violators were continuing to violate the law in plain sight of the officers.

Do we want cops who lie on their reports?
This is serious. Do we want police officers who will lie on their reports? If you can't trust a cop, who can you trust? Some countries are known for having corrupt police departments. No one trusts the police because most of the cops have various personal agendas and they are known to lie. We don't want that in the U.S. and we don't want that in Costa Mesa.

A few officers with biases and political agendas in a police department can have a corrosive effect on police/community relations, and this isn't good for anyone.
Help the CMPD help you by being a responsible citizen and by taking notes when you report incidents.

We all need to help drive down the high violent crime rate in Costa Mesa. You can help by being involved and engaged.
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FORMER COLORADO GOVERNOR LAMM SAYS ILLEGAL ALIENS AREN'T CHEAP LABOR LINK

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COSTA MESA'S WESTSIDE COMES IN #82 OUT OF 83 ZIP CODES IN OC IN OCR'S ZIPPY AWARDS (The only worse zip code in OC was in Santa Ana). LINK

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