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San Francisco’s new District Attorney (and former Police Chief) George Gascón wants to create volunteer-run community courts to help deal with minor criminal offenses such as shoplifting, prostitution, and certain drug violations…
If you’re looking for something to do in San Francisco during Macworld, eleven of the city’s strip clubs are offering half off admission with your Macworld badge.
When I first spotted this two-page centerfold ad in SF Weekly I wondered: do they think Macs are more randy or just more lonely than other tech people?
There are tech conferences every day of the week in San Francisco – this is the first time I’ve seen a big ad for a group of strip clubs promoting discounts for tech-conference goers.
Also: don’t they know a lot of the attendees are women? You can see from our last year’s “Faces of Macworld” gallery by Traci Dauphin that Macworld isn’t necessarily a man’s world. Dunno. Maybe I should gather a fistful of dollar bills and some geek girls for an expedition.
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See the full article from “Cult of Mac”
Man assaulted, robbed after stopping for prostitute
Times-Herald staff report
Posted: 01/25/2011 01:24:23 AM PST
An Ohio man was robbed of his rental car and personal possessions Sunday after what Vallejo police say was an intended prostitution transaction.
Sgt. Jeff Bassett said police were notified of the incident when the man went to a Vallejo hospital at about 5 p.m., seeking treatment for a bump on the head.
The victim told police he “wanted a date” at about 8 a.m., so he pulled over for a prostitute. Instead, he said, two men jumped into his car near the Sonoma Boulevard and Tennessee Street and hit him on the head with a gun, Bassett said.
The men then drove the man about four blocks away to an abandoned house and locked him in a bedroom after taking the man’s cell phone and wedding band, Bassett said. They left in his rental car.
So here’s the rest of us. How do our schools get better? I am talking about our schools, not charter schools or religious schools or private schools, but our schools. By creating a super-school with all the bells and whistles anyone knows a school should have — committed parents and students and teachers, maybe uniforms, updated curriculum, and insistence on respect for teachers and classmates — the charter school is ensured success.
The rest of the schools? Let them eat cake. We don’t need a charter school to teach us how to teach. We can do it ourselves.
I wrote about this proposal before, questioning the propriety of a school downtown, where young people can roam without supervision, associating with the drinkers, druggers and prostitutes. Our downtown is not ready for a high school. Maybe someday, but not now.
Quentin Manchester, 39, a Rose Street resident for five years, said he knew Jones from around the neighborhood. Manchester said Jones had been complaining about a long-standing conflict with the man he eventually hit with a shovel.
On Monday, Manchester said, he was awakened by an explosion on his street about 3:15 a.m. and saw a car engulfed in flames. Firefighters found the woman’s body in the car after putting out the blaze.
“It’s sad and scary that someone could get killed right here – again,” Manchester said.
An elderly Rose Street resident said he had seen a man wearing gray pants light a rag on fire and toss it into the driver’s side of the car before running north on Webster Street.
The resident, who declined to give his name because he feared retribution, said he had told police he was looking out his second-story window because he liked to keep an eye on the alley, which was once known for drugs and prostitution.
As such, Onek finds himself in the same philosophical camp as all the district attorneys elected in San Francisco in the last ten years. And opposed to Gascón, who told reporters that he is “not philosophically opposed to the death penalty,” shortly after Newsom appointed him as D.A.
And then there is Gascon’s history as a longtime Republican who only came out as a Democrat after he was appointed D.A.
Gascón says his parting of the ways with the Republican Party occurred over differences in opinion on immigration, equal rights for gays, and social services. But despite his potential negatives, his position as the current D.A. gives him a stage that’s hard to fight—unless you work in another D.A.’s office.
Take Alameda County Assistant District Attorney Sharmin Bock. She filed papers in the D.A.’s race the day after Newsom named Gascón as interim D.A., allegedly has the support of the Gettys, and her name was all over the media last week when she helped bust a prostitution ring in the East Bay
Vallejo police: Man car-jacked, kidnapped after soliciting a prostitute
Bay City News Service
Posted: 01/24/2011 05:11:46 PM PST
Updated: 01/24/2011 05:11:47 PM PST
A 41-year-old man became the victim of a carjacking and kidnapping in Vallejo on Sunday morning when he tried to solicit a prostitute, police said today.
The victim, who was in the Bay Area on business from Toledo, Ohio, told officers that he was trying to “pick up a date” in the 1300 block of Sonoma Boulevard at around 8 a.m. when the incident occurred, Vallejo police Sgt. Jeff Bassett said.
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On Sunday afternoon, Vallejo police arrested a 70-year-old man for soliciting a prostitute about one black away from the morning’s carjacking, Bassett said.
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Police also detained a 16-year-old girl and a 25-year-old woman for loitering with the intent to commit prostitution, Bassett said.
Police Chief-turned-District Attorney George Gascón is drafting a plan to remake San Francisco’s swamped criminal justice system by moving thousands of petty offenders into a network of volunteer-run community courts.
As envisioned, mediators in seven or eight neighborhood courts would decide on innocence or guilt and hand out non-jail sentences for such crimes as shoplifting, prostitution, minor drug violations and illegal sidewalk sitting.
They would also assign lawbreakers to social services with the idea of helping them change their behavior.
“In many cases, we are criminalizing people we don’t need to,” Gascón said, adding that the current system is financially “unsustainable.”
San Francisco already has several alternative courts that deal with substance abuse, mental illness and other issues, including a community court held once or twice a month for those who commit infractions. These courts are meant to divert defendants into social services and away from crowded jails.
There was an abundance of four things: pulsating music, conversation, food, and drink. Add to that the eye-candy (for girls too, I hope, but some of the guys, new to this kind of party said they were actually surprised the women looked so good! Seriously.)
Around 6:30, Jefferson announced that those going to The Crunchies should leave to board one of two complementary busses headed to the event at The Palace of Fine Arts. Cool.
Now, I expected a standard large “airport bus” style vehicle with all seats facing forward.
Hell no.
What we got was a bus that was a giant limo, with all seats, save the ones in back, facing sideways, and a stripper poll at the center. And if you think I’m kidding, look at the video. You’ll see it.
BARTLETT: He didn’t like robbing banks with Babyface Nelson. He really liked Pretty Boy Floyd. Babyface Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd had two very different ways of robbing banks. He said Pretty Boy Floyd was always nice, polite, used violence always as the last means, and Chuck always did that. And he said Babyface Nelson was a psychopathic killer, where he would mow down anyone in his way – a mom holding a baby if need be. Chuck was not down for that whatsoever.
WRIGHT: He went to the Oregon pen, many other pens. He had a tumultuous young life. He was in the Folsom prison riots in the late ‘20s and the National Guard was called in to machine gun a number of prisoners…
BARTLETT: …and he was so nervous from that incident that they had to raid the pharmacy, and they gave him his first shot of morphine, and then he had a heroine and morphine addiction for a very long time.
WRIGHT: He also fell in love with a prostitute named Millie who became pretty much the love of his life.
