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My point was that arresting people for prostitution is expensive and time-consuming and does not solve the problem. What solves prostitution problems is the elimination of crime hazards relating to prostitution, increased police presence in high prostitution areas and making every effort possible to educate customers and prostitutes to get them out of the “life.”
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I have written to the California Attorney General asking for definitive guidance regarding the use of Department of Motor Vehicles information to send “Dear John” letters to the registered owners of vehicles seen in areas of high prostitution. Previous guidance from the California Department of Justice staff indicated that such use is not permitted. However, we believe it is appropriate that this matter be reviewed by the Attorney General herself. Using such letter may deter future “customers.”
All Jose Esparza wanted to do was buy a video game for his 6-year-old son and then have lunch with his family. Esparza, who had just turned 39, made the fatal decision to stop at El Pueblo Market on International Boulevard to cash his $300 paycheck.
On the way out, two men attempted to rob him. As Esparza’s son looked on, the assailants shot the father. He died a short time later.
Once again, another life senselessly snuffed out on the streets of this city. Once again, another grieving widow in East Oakland suddenly left to raise her young children on her own.
Two weeks earlier, Carlos Nava was shot and killed on International Boulevard. The 3-year-old was in his stroller when two gang members began firing at two rivals on a crowded sidewalk. The toddler was killed in full view of his family.
The East Oakland boulevard was never a picnic. It has always been plagued by prostitution, drug dealing and murders.
Vallejo is the poster child for what’s ailing California cities. It filed for bankruptcy in 2008, a victim of the real estate crash, losing a major employer in the process, and facing pension costs it cannot possibly meet.
Its police department was cut by one-third, and no longer has the resources to focus on low-level crimes like prostitution. Nor does the city have any regulations about medical marijuana dispensary. The result, rather obviously, is a huge increase in prostitution and marijuana sales.
“You know the only businesses in town making money? Pot and prostitution — that’s it,” says the operator of a dispensary who says his business is one of the few bringing foot traffic downtown.
Of course, legal marijuana and fewer cops tend to attract prostitutes, drug dealers, and their customers. This is becoming a major problem in the downtown area. Property values have plunged. Residents increasingly feel unsafe.
See the full article from “California Independent Voter Network”
Stop the fight
Published By Times Herald
Posted: 08/29/2011 01:00:52 AM PDT
An open letter to Vallejo Police Chief Nichelini:
Your years-long fight with the city council using the citizens of Vallejo as fodder for your political goals has got to stop — now!
While you flagrantly dilly-dally on your decision to retire, you induce crime into this town with your continuous ill-considered statements to the press. The latest: “When you have half the number of people, you can only do half the amount of work.” (www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/prostitutes-flood-vallejo-after-bankrupt-city-slashes-police-33-.html) It’s like saying: Only half of you criminals will get caught, so come on in everyone!
You are a public servant. Who gave you permission to speak like this to the press? Basic business rules everywhere are “Keep your trouble to yourself.” But over and over again for years, you blab to anyone who puts a microphone in your face and more crime comes.
On Aug. 4, United States Bankruptcy Judge Michael S. McManus signed the order confirming the city’s amended and modified plan of adjustment. That plan had been approved by all the major creditors. The confirmed plan will allow the City of Vallejo to emerge from bankruptcy and move forward to rebuild itself into a new and better, more productive organization, devoting its resources and focus to the community it serves.
By reaching out to the business community, the city obtained a grant from Kaiser Permanente-Vallejo to hire additional police officers. Kaiser’s generous donation will be used as a match that will allow the city to qualify to receive a federal stimulus grant. As a result, on July 26, the city council approved the reestablishing of a police crime suppression unit to aggressively focus on the quality of life crimes such as prostitution and drug dealing, and on property crimes. The council also approved the acquisition and installation of 26 crime-monitoring cameras that will be located in strategic locations around the city to help suppress crime. The city also hired an abandoned vehicle abatement officer, a supervisor in the emergency dispatch center, and two parking enforcement officers.
The move generated national headlines, stigma and a lot of anxiety, recalled Robert McConnell, a bankruptcy lawyer who ran city-sponsored seminars to ease residents’ concerns.
“There was a lot of fear that city employees wouldn’t get paid and the city would crumble,” said McConnell, now a City Council candidate. “As you see, we managed to survive.”
Police Chief Robert Nichelini, who has worked for five mayors and 14 city managers here, said, “We’re all doing more with less. I’m anxious to see where we will be five years from now.”
The city plans to use $4.7 million in new grant money to hire more police officers and firefighters, Nichelini said. Two rehired police officers are back to work and another will start next month — which the chief said will help the department fight prostitution, drugs and other quality-of-life crimes.
Panel: Captain who made videos can stay in Navy
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – The former commander of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier who produced raunchy videos aboard the USS Enterprise can remain in the Navy despite a finding that he committed misconduct, a Navy panel ruled Wednesday. Capt. Owen P. Honors let out a sigh of relief after the board of inquiry read its decision, then embraced his wife after months of uncertainty about his career largely came to a close. The board was deciding whether to recommend to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus that Honors should be kicked out of the Navy after nearly three decades of service because of the videos. Among other things, the videos included simulated same-sex shower scenes, anti-gay slurs and references to prostitution in foreign ports.
See the full article from “KMPH Fox 26″
And another record I would like to set straight is how they posted and stated that Kenny was a rapist and had messed with a 14-year-old girl and pimping and pandering. What the news doesn’t tell you is that Kenny was 17 at the time all of this took place and that the court had subpoenaed and received the online conversations on MySpace between him and her and found the conversations where she was lying about her age.
And, if Kenny was a rapist, he would have been required to register as a sex offender, OK? And outside of that, if he was pimping and pandering, he would still be locked up – he’d be doing five to 10. He got a reduced sentence because of the proof of the conversations that took place online and because she offered and he accepted.
The $247,500 sales price includes the buyer’s premium, Christie said in the e-mail.
The main case is Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, 08-ap-1789, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
Vallejo Citizens Still Feeling Shockwaves From Bankruptcy
While Vallejo, California, located 24 miles (39 kilometers) north of San Francisco, emerged from court protection on Aug. 5, the city’s citizens are still feeling the ripple effects caused by its trip through bankruptcy.
“I see prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers out my front window,” resident Ruth Rooney, who moved to the city in 2005, said in a telephone interview with Bloomberg’s Alison Vekshin on Aug. 5. “There’s two on the corner right now.” Her property value has dropped 70 percent in six years, she said.
See the full article from “BusinessWeek”
As with modern Coup shows, the set comprised of material almost entirely off their last three albums. Because Riley was backed by such a crack band, the live versions of the songs rarely mirrored their studio counterparts and instead featured thick, energetic grooves that pulled from equal parts late Funkadelic and early Prince electro-funk.
To keep the energy high, the band rarely broke between their songs and kept kicking out jam after jam. Midway through the concert, Riley apologized to the crowd, “Unfortunately, we had to take a sponsor, so I have to say something about them…,” at which point the band broke into their tune dedicated to black revolutionaries, “Ass-Breath Killers”. That song merged into an instrumental interlude of Funkadelic’s “Cosmic Slop”, which warped into the Coup’s own version of the Cosmic Slop saga, the heart-wrenching tale of motherhood prostitution, “Me & Jesus the Pimp in a ‘79 Granada Last Night”.
See the full article from “Punknews.org”
