CM PRESS # 27

THE CM PRESS IMAGINES HOW STORIES ARE WRITTEN AT THE DAILY PILOT...

Editor to Daily Pilot reporters: "Remember, no matter what the story is about, I want you to work in quotes from Katrina Foley."

And, then...
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WATER DISCOVERED ON MARS--DAILY PILOT ASKS KATRINA FOLEY HER OPINION

Scientists revealed yesterday that they believe there may be liquid water on Mars.

When asked about this discovery, Costa Mesa Citycouncilperson Katrina Foley said that she thinks water is a good thing. "Why, we can drink it, and we can wash with it, and we can cook with it, and we can water our lawns with it, and we can...well, you know, do so many things with it. Yes, I think water is a good thing."
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SITUATION GOING POORLY IN IRAQ--DAILY PILOT GETS THE SCOOP FROM KATRINA FOLEY

Katrina Foley said today that she's ready to go to Iraq to negotiate to end the violence. "Violence is a bad thing," said Foley. "It's too, well, violent."
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Okay, you know the above are spoofs, but don't you see Foley being quoted in just about every story in the Pilot?

Aren't there five City Councilmembers? And, isn't she the least of the five in the sense that she's often the lone dissenting vote--as when the Council sent a letter to President Bush asking him to secure our border with Mexico and she voted against this?

And, didn't she just fail miserably in trying to get Bruce Garlich and Mike Scheafer elected to the City Council?

Why is Foley the Daily Pilot's go-to person most of the time? Hmmmm?
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CM PRESS # 26

"EMPOWERING WHITE GIRLS"

"Writer *** *******, whose book is a guide for White girls, spoke at Girls Inc. on Monday."
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The above, with a slight change, was the headline and the first paragraph of a front page article appearing in the Daily Pilot on 12/5. http://www.dailypilot.com/

The slight change we mentioned is that this article wasn't about White girls at all. It was about Latinas.

What do you think? Would the Daily Pilot have run this piece had "White girls" been substituted for "Latinas"?

Or, what if "European-American girls" appeared instead of either of the above? Do you think the Daily Pilot would have run it?

Just asking.
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CM PRESS # 25

GRAFFITI IN MESA DEL MAR

DECEMBER 4, 2006--MESA DEL MAR (Where Sillycouncilmumbler Katrina Foley lives)--The CM PRESS recently wrote that the Sillycouncil wasted a couple hundred thousand dollars of our tax money in repaving an alley in the Mendoza slum (near where Katrina Foley lives) instead of using the money to buy up some of the slum buildings and tear them down in order to thin out this habitat for criminals.

Well, today, we noted that the garages and buildings at 1034, 1033, 1024 and 1010 El Camino Drive facing the newly paved alley have all had extensive gang graffiti put on them.

No doubt, the gang members truly appreciate having the citizens of Costa Mesa give them a nice smooth new alley to facilitate their movements back and forth as they spray paint their gang slogans all over the place.

Thank you Katrina Foley.

Costa Mesa, tear down these slum buildings and replace them with parks or pride of ownership homes. Stop wasting our money by simply painting over graffiti. That doesn't solve the problem.
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CM PRESS # 24

IS THE DAILY PILOT FADING AWAAAAAAAY?
(We hope not--but we hope it gets better)

As we've written before, we like the fact that we have a daily newspaper in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach.

In fact, the only reason we read any newspapers at all is for local news. We get all our national and international news from the Internet, the radio or TV.

Still, we have not been pleased with the lefty direction of the Daily Pilot; that became more noticeable after the advent of the Improvers in Costa Mesa.

Over the past few years, it seemed to us that that we could hardly pick up a copy of the Pilot without seeing some smear, some innuendo, some insult from the Pilot aimed at some of the people who want to make Costa Mesa a nicer place.

The paper even seemed to feature some local crackpots and kooks with their wild conspiracy theories as to why Costa Mesans were electing people to office who promised to fix broken Costa Mesa.

We were treated to some comments--including one stupid column from City Councilperson Linda Dixon--implying that there were dark forces at work trying to run this or that group out of the city. Dixon even used the anti-white hate term "lily-white," in her goofy column that was specifically aimed at defeating Mayor Mansoor and improvement in general.

When citizens tried to get our small non-sports parks made safe for their non-sports intended purposes, they were accused, in the pages of the Pilot, of trying to chase one ethnic group out of the city because members of that group are often interested in soccer. Of course, many other people also play soccer, but when you set out to smear, you have to be selective and you have to play the race card as it is handed to you.

Attempts to improve the Westside were, and are, being painted as further attempts to run people out of the city.

Before the last election, we even saw the pages of the Pilot disgraced with columns and letters from pompous self-important fools, who live across the border in Newport Beach, who used up ink in telling Costa Mesans that we should defeat Mayor Mansoor and Wendy Leece.

When the CM PRESS tried to present some reasoned arguments to counter the smears that appeared in the Pilot, we were never given any space in the paper. Not so much as a single line.

Yes, dear friends, our community newspaper, the Daily Pilot, has shut out your dear editor of the CM PRESS and presumably others who might present some persuasive arguments to counter the smears. That's why you don't see any letters or columns from us in the Pilot. And, we've sent the paper many letters and columns to counter the false things we've read there.

Maybe, with the disastrous results in the just past election for the pals of the Pilot, things have come to a head at the paper. In this just past election, the Pilot appeared to pull out all the stops in order to get Bruce Garlich and Mike Scheafer elected. Day after day, readers were treated to puff comments about the two, and negative ones about Mansoor, and, by association, Leece.

The Pilot failed miserably. Mansoor and Leece won without breaking a sweat. The voters gave these two a mandate to improve this city. This was a rejection of the positions taken by the Pilot and all their lefty pals.

Shortly after the election, the editor of the Pilot, S. J. Cahn, quit. No good reasons were given for this sudden departure. Did it have anything to do with the fact that the Pilot was so out of touch with voters? The paper will probably say there's no connection, but....

Right now, the Pilot isn't even running editorials or letters. How long this will continue is anyone's guess but, without these editorials and letters, the paper is losing much local interest and may lose readers as a result.

So, what would the CM PRESS like to see at the Pilot?

We'd like to see new columnists who actually know something about the local scene and who write about it. We'd like to see an expanded opinion section with many more letters from readers. We'd like to see a more "improvement minded" newspaper run and written by people who actually live in Costa Mesa and Newport Beach and who have a stake in making our two communities even nicer than they are now instead of pushing failed left wing ideologies and hatred for our traditional values. We'd also like to see the end to wasted ink columns that have no relevance to Costa Mesa and Newport Beach.

Oh, as an aside, when we wrote an earlier column in a similar vein about the Pilot, we got an email from another guy with a blog who said that we were wrong and that the Pilot was solid. A virtual Rock of Gibralter, as we say in the biz. That was before the editor quit.

Of course, this other guy also ran a poll on his blog (that was sent to us--because we almost never read blogs) that showed that Chris Bunyan was going to win the recent election in a virtual landslide. Laugh out loud. As we predicted, Mr. Bunyan came in dead last in the election.

This other guy used to write a column for the Pilot and he is a member of Return to Reason and he supported Garlich and Scheafer in the election, so one suspects his views are colored by hanging out with too many swells in the whine and geez set and/or are influenced by political ideology and wishful thinking.

Come on Pilot, we're pulling for you. Make the necessary changes over there and don't fade away on us. Get in touch with the real people of Costa Mesa and not the phonies who always seem to have your corporate ear.
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CM PRESS # 23

GRAFFITI EXPRESS COMING TO COSTA MESA?

Remember the goofy light rail plan? It's coming back in pieces so this time you won't catch on and shout it down as you did last time.

At their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, 12/5, the Costa Mesa City Council is being asked to rubber stamp a plan to give Costa Mesa's OCTA funding in the amount of $ 100,000 to the City of Santa Ana and allow Santa Ana to act as the lead agency for Costa Mesa in coming up with a transit plan involving Metrolink.

Sound a little like deja vu?

To the CM PRESS, this sounds like the old, goofy light-rail (read "subway" but above ground) proposal that was killed off. Instead of trying to keep selling that stupid plan, the people pushing this one apparently think they can have better luck in selling it piecemeal. Just feed you the bad tasting medicine a little at a time and you won't catch on.

If Costa Mesa goes through with this thing, we'll be handing a large part of Costa Mesa's future over to Santa Ana.

Remember our article "Metropolis Rising" about South Coast Metro possibly breaking away from Costa Mesa in the future? This light rail plan would fit in with that.

Irvine opted out of this deal, folks. They don't want any part of it. Apparently, Newport Beach isn't even considering this goofy thing.

What will this eventually lead to? A light rail train (subway, but above ground) from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa.

This plan is just another step to blend Costa Mesa into Santa Ana and it should be turned down cold. Santa Ana is not Costa Mesa's sister city--Newport Beach is and should remain that way.

WE DO NOT NEED LIGHT RAIL BETWEEN SANTA ANA AND COSTA MESA AND WE ESPECIALLY DON'T NEED TO TURN COSTA MESA'S AUTHORITY AND MONEY OVER TO SANTA ANA AND LET THEM DECIDE THINGS FOR COSTA MESA.

This item is buried among sixteen other items in the Consent Calendar. What this means is that unless someone calls this item for discussion, the Council will take one vote and rubber stamp this item along with the sixteen other items.

Folks, the way a lot of little bad decisions have been made over the years for Costa Mesa is through this fast shuffle Consent Calendar. All a proponent has to do is bury something important in the Consent Calendar and the Council usually just approves it.

The CM PRESS plans on calling this item for discussion.

Here's the link where you can read all about this goofy idea. Be sure to read the actual agreement with Santa Ana by clicking on the sublink at the bottom of the agenda page that opens when you click on this link: http://www.ci.costa-mesa.ca.us/council/agenda/2006-12-05/12-05-06%20Go%20Local%20Coop%20Agreement%20with%20OCTA%20and%20Santa%20Ana%20Report.pdf

If you want to let the City Council know your feelings on this matter, here's the contact email address: op2council@ci.costa-mesa.ca.us
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Here's the link to the CM PRESS that you can bookmark and send to citizens who want a nicer Costa Mesa--one that is NOT like Santa Ana--http://cmpress.blogspot.com/
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CM PRESS # 22

COPS ARREST ILLEGAL ALIEN WITH GUN--FOLEY YAPS

The Daily Pilot is reporting today (12/3/06) that the CMPD arrested an illegal alien with a gun who was involved in a burglary in Costa Mesa.

Apparently following it's Standard Operating Procedure, the Daily Pilot also ran comments from Councilperson Katrina Foley, the Pilot's regular go-to liberal. We're starting to suspect that Foley lives at the Daily Pilot.

Here's the link if you want to know what Foley had to say (Does anyone care what she has to say? And, why does the Pilot keep going to her for quotes?):

http://www.dailypilot.com/

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ANOTHER STABBING IN COSTA MESA

Also check the Pilot today for the details on yet another stabbing in Costa Mesa. Isn't it wonderful to live in an illegal alien sanctuary city?
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MANSOOR, LEECE AND BEVER HAVE A MANDATE FROM VOTERS

Just a reminder, Allan Mansoor, Wendy Leece and Eric Bever have a mandate from voters to improve this city.

Hopefully, they don't have tin ears and will move boldly to make our city more like our coastal neighbors and less like some downscale cities to our north.

The CM PRESS will be closely watching what they actually do.

As far as Foley and Dixon go--they should be ignored for the next two years. They're improvement obstructionists. In two years, the citizens of this city can give these two the boot that they deserve. Of course, if one or both of them start flying right, we'll be the first to let you know that also. But, we don't expect that to happen.
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CM PRESS # 21

AS PROMISED, HERE'S A LIST OF MIKE SCHEAFER'S SUPPORTERS

You can view Mike's complete website at: http://mikescheafer2006.com

Endorsements

Community Officials/Leaders Katrina Foley - City Council Member, Costa Mesa Dave Snowden - Police Chief, Beverly Hills Mary Hornbuckle - Former CM Mayor Arlene Schafer - Former CM Mayor Joe Erickson - Former CM Mayor Bill Perkins - Former Planning Commission Chair Walt Davenport - Former Planning Commissioner Tom Sutro - Former Planning Commissioner Aviva Goelman - Director, Costa Mesa Senior Center Dave Brooks - President NMUSD Board Dana Black - NMUSD Board Member Judith Franco - NMUSD Board Member Forrest Werner - Former School Board Member Michelle Graham - VP, Newport Mesa Schools Foundation Dave Stiller - Parks Commissioner, Costa Mesa Byron de Arakal - Parks Commissioner, Costa Mesa Art Perry - Sanitary District Director Jim Ferryman - Sanitary District Director Dan Monahan - Executive Director, Boys and Girls Club Steve Lampron - Branch Director, Boys and Girls Club Pastor Bill & Gina Gartner - Local Church Leaders Charlene Aschendorf - Community Leader Kathy Haze - Founder and Director, A Light in the Window Don Schweitzer - City Council Member City of Brea Local Organizations Costa Mesa Firefighters Association Costa Mesa Police Officers Association Orange County Coalition of Police and Sheriffs The Daily Pilot Return To Reason United Auto Workers Personal Insurance Federation Residents & Business Owners Ivan Calderon - Taco Mesa Bill Turpit Marrianne Segalla and Chandler Littley Mike & Lynda Ann McIlroy Geoff & Susie West Dennis Aschendorf Bob & Joan Finnegan Frank and Jean Forbath Karen and John McGlinn Chris Blank Raul & Debbie Jara - Roberto's Auto Trim Shaheen Sadeghi - Owner, The LAB/ The CAMP Josh Aden - editor in chief, OCC's "The Coast Report" Bert Haze - Bert Haze & Associates Al Capilli - Andiamo Caffe Frank and Julie Scheafer Matt, Carol, Madison, Gavin Scheafer Eric Scheafer Jason Scheafer John Van Valkenburg Ron & Theresa Kopensky Mark Gleason Hank & Barbara Panian Amber Perkins Carol & Barry Mason Paul & Karen Lamas Roberto & Olga Jara Chuck & Elaine Cassity Scott & Sue Heinkel Gordon & Carol Bowley Bil & Diane Prior Ellen Carroll Gary & Joan Weeks The Lambert Family Vi Smith Bobbie Hedrick Bud Williams Casey Swanson Rollo McClellan

Endorsements

CM PRESS # 20

KATRINA FOLEY

On page A3 in the Daily Pilot today there's a correction to a news article that ran on Thursday.

In the correction, the Pilot tells readers that it was Katrina Foley who was instrumental in organizing the Keep Kids Alive, Drive 25 campaign in a Mesa del Mar neighborhood. Apparently, Ms. Foley wasn't mentioned in the original article.

It didn't take long for the Pilot to realize the error. Now, how do you suppose the newspaper learned that they had left Foley's name out of the article?

We imagine...the phone rings at the Daily Pilot....

Female caller with a fake male voice: "Hello. This isn't Katrina Foley calling. Say, did you know that you forgot to tell readers that the wonderfully compassionate Katrina Foley, who is also very attractive and dresses well and looks years younger than she really is and who is a terrific mother and a fantastic City Councilperson and who wants nothing more than world peace and to save the whales was left out of your article about Mesa del Mar?"

Daily Pilot: "Thank you. Who's calling?"

Female caller with a fake male voice (caught off guard): "Katrin...ah...Katrino. John Katrino. Yes. This is John Katrino calling and I'm a two fisted man's man. Well, gotta go watch some football. How about them Red Sox?"
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LATE BREAKING NEWS--SWAT IN MESA DEL MAR!

At 7:20 a.m. this morning (Friday, 12/1) the CM PRESS saw the CMPD SWAT truck, fully dressed SWAT team members, and six black and white patrol cars involved in some sort of activity in the 1400 block of El Camino Drive in the Mendoza slum (in Mesa del Mar near where Katrina Foley lives).

Whatever was going on appeared to be happening in one of the slum units or the fenced yard and was not visible from the CM PRESSMOBILE.

Our call to the CMPD to find out more details resulted in us being put on hold for many minutes (as usual) so we finally just broke off the connection.
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SPEAKING OF THE MENDOZA SLUM

There have been a number of murders and other violent crimes in this slum.

When will the City of Costa Mesa move to raze the overcrowed slum buildings and replace them with parks or housing that are not a habitat for criminals and illegal aliens?

What has the City actually done in the slum? Recently it spent a couple hundred thousand of your tax dollars to repave the alley behind one row of slum buildings. Now the illegal aliens living in garages have a nice concrete patio outside their garage doors.

The City should have used this money as a down payment on a couple of the slum buildings and torn them down.

If you live in Mesa del Mar, don't count on Katrina Foley to do anything about the slum that is ruining your neighborhood, depressing your property values, and endangering your kids, she's busy doing PTA level sweet nothings (see first article above).

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Don't forget to pass on the CM PRESS to concerned, improvement minded citizens. http://cmpress.blogspot.com/

CM PRESS # 19

WE GET MAIL ABOUT BRUCE GARLICH AND MIKE SCHEAFER

Dear CM PRESS:

Who supported Bruce Garlich and Mike Scheafer in the election this year?

Name Withheld by CM PRESS
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WE COMMENT:

Here are the names of supporters that appear on Mr. Garlich's website. We'll put up the names of Scheafer's supporters soon.

http://www.garlichforcm.com/index.htm

ORGANIZATIONS

Costa Mesa Firefighter Association (CMFA)

Costa Mesa Police Association (CMPA)

The Daily Pilot

Return to Reason

Westside Revitalization Association

Orange County Coalition of Police and Sheriffs

Women For: Orange County

COMMUNITY OFFICIALS and LEADERS

Mary Hornbuckle-Former Mayor

Arlene Schafer-Former Mayor

Joe Erickson-Former Mayor

Katrina Foley-Council Member

Dave Snowden-Former Costa Mesa Police Chief

John Hensley-Former Costa Mesa Police Chief

Bill Perkins-Planning Commission Chair

Eleanor Egan-Planning Commissioner

Walt Davenport-Former Planning Commissioner

Chris Fewel-Former Planning Commissioner

Tom Sutro-Former Planning Commissioner

Byron de Arakal-Parks and Rec Commissioner

Dave Stiller-Parks and Rec Commissioner

Jerry Sheer-Former City Attorney

Dave Brooks-President, Newport-Mesa School Board

Linda Sneen-VP Newport-Mesa School Board

Dana Black-Newport-Mesa School Board Member

Tom Egan-Newport-Mesa School Board Member

Martha Fluor-Newport-Mesa School Board Member

Judy Franco-Newport-Mesa School Board Member

Serene Stokes-Newport-Mesa School Board Member

Forrest Werner-Former School Board Member

Jim Ferryman-Sanitary District Director

Jim Atkinson-Mesa Consolidated Water District Director

Jim Wahner-Santa Ana River Flood Protection Agency

Scott Paulsen-President, Newport-Mesa Schools Foundation

Michele Graham-VP, Newport-Mesa Schools Foundation

Dave Eliott-Vanguard University

Doug Bennett-Executive Director, OCC Foundation

Pastor Bill and Gina Gartner-Local Church Leaders

Susan Kline-Founder, Kline School

Charlene Ashendorf-Community Leader

Dennis Ashendorf-Former Teacher of the Year

Lisa Reedy- Mesa Del Mar Resident

RESIDENTS and BUSINESS OWNERS

Hank and Barbara Panian

Julie Kramer

John Ursini - Newport Rib Company

Sonny Kapur - Nabers Cadillac

Howard and Harriet Roop

Rob and Quinn Bowman

Sam and Shirley Wazniak

Barbara Mellinger

Rebecca Chadwick

Crissy Brooks

Yvonne Rowden

Nicholas Calderon

Jill Hambarian

Bety Cundall

Dave and Lee Wensley

Jane Werner

Gordon and Carol Bowley

Amber Perkins

Surat Singh - Angels Auto Spa

Carmen Grimes

Bill and Judy Button

Joe and Thersa Beno

Raul Jara - Roberto's Auto Trim

Debbie Jara

Chuck and Elaine Cassity

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CM PRESS # 18

BREAKING NEWS--FINAL VOTE COUNT--TWO MORE FLUKES!

Here's the final vote count for the November 7, election.

Allan Mansoor 10,122 25.9%
Wendy Leece 9,524 24.4
Bruce Garlich 8,280 21.2
Mike Scheafer 7,255 18.6
Mirna Burciaga 2,717 7.0
Chris Bunyan 1,190 3.0

When the Improvers helped Chris Steel get elected, the lefties said it was a fluke. Then, they helped Allan Mansoor get elected. Another fluke. Then, it was Eric Bever. Fluke. Now, it's Mansoor(again) and Leece. Two more flukes.

Get ready for some more flukes as the citizens of Costa Mesa continue to reject the negative and divisive views of the likes of Katrina Foley and Linda Dixon and their pals. Our view is that citizens are fed up with the crime and the downscale conditions. Citizens are saying they don't want Costa Mesa to devolve to being an inner city. They want it to be a coastal city with a high quality of life. Obstructionists such as Foley and Dixon represent old thinking that has been rejected by the good, decent citizens of this city.

Hey, Foley and Dixon, Costa Mesa should be as nice as our coastal neighbors! Got it?
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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.

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