San Bernardino bankrupt, start packin'

[EE_]

Lock your doors and load your guns: San Bernardino warned of uncontrollable crime as police squad shrinks
30 November, 2012, 22:11 Reuters / Shannon Stapleton

A San Bernardino city attorney told residents this week to gather arms and prepare to defend themselves since the bankrupt town can no longer afford the law enforcement it needs.

During a city council meeting Wednesday, City Attorney Jim Penman urged residents of the bankrupt Californian city to “lock their doors and load their guns” to protect themselves.

City officials prepared a budget plan earlier this month that would attempt to tackle the $45.8 million deficit partially by cutting benefits for city workers like firefighters and police officers, as well as eliminating 80 cops from the force altogether.

“Let’s be honest, we don’t have enough police officers. We have too many criminals living in this city. We have had 45 murders this year… that’s far too high for a city of this size,” Penman said.

The cuts will leave the city with just over 200 sworn officers – a small number in a city of 213,012 that is plagued with crime. The city’s police department has also cut down on the number of people answering its emergency phone lines: problematic in a city that was ranked America’s sixteenth most dangerous in 2004. San Bernardino has also seen a 50 percent increase in murders this year compared to 2011, and this week’s council meeting was actually called in response to the brutal murder of a 76-year-old woman in a neighborhood that is usually quiet.

During the meeting, Police Chief Robert Handy also emphasized the need to reduce the city’s drug problems and theft. But in a region where prisons are already overcrowded and the streets are overwhelmed with gang violence, San Bernardino faces heavy obstacles.

“We are trying to refocus and pay a little more attention to those (types of crimes) because honestly, those are the ones we get complaints on,” Handy said, reports the local Sun newspaper. “We may not come out immediately, but many of those transients have been arrested more than 50 times. There’s no room for them in jail.”

With an inadequate police force, no room in prison, and no money to gather resources, Penman believes city residents must fend for themselves.

“People have asked me what should we do? Go home, lock your doors, and load your gun,” he told the crowd of nearly 150 people at the city council meeting.

San Bernardino filed for bankruptcy on Aug. 1 after acquiring more than $1 billion in debt. The city was the third in California to go bankrupt in just over a month.

In the mid-2000’s, San Bernardino took out $190 million in bonds and loans to finance city construction, but budget problems arose after the 2007 housing crisis. Before it declared bankruptcy, 75 percent of San Bernardino’s budget had gone to public safety agencies to tackle crime.

Penman has come under scrutiny for encouraging residents to stock up on firearms, but City Councilwoman Wendy McCommack further explained the statement to CBS News.

“We need to take our streets back, we need to take our neighborhoods back and we need to protect our homes, and that’s what I think Jim was trying to say,” she said.
http://rt.com/usa/news/san-bernardino-bankrupt-crime-003/

[PatColo]

THIS IS WHAT A CONSTITUTIONAL SHERIFF SOUNDS LIKE (Audio) (http://www.meetup.com/SCMLA2/messages/boards/thread/30807462)

TRANSCRIPT:
"I'm Sheriff David Clarke and I want to talk to you about something personal: Your safety. It's no longer a spectator sport. I need you in the game, but are you ready? With officers laid off on furlough, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option. You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back. But are you prepared? Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there. You have a duty to protect yourself and your family. We're partners now. Can I count on you? This safety message brought to you by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office."

[milehi]

San Bernardino is one of the nation's murder capitals, but the cops are just as bad and are thugs. The city is corrupt, the courts are kangaroo courts, and the elected officials are criminals. I don't even like driving through on the freeway.

[Twisted Titan]

Quick somebody please a official response from feinswine and what her common sense gun laws are going to do.

[Horn]

Quick somebody please a official response from feinswine and what her common sense gun laws are going to do.

http://drschweitzer.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/sc-gun-stat.jpg?w=576&h=576

[EE_]

Attack on family in Compton latest incident in wave of anti-black violence

A Latino gang is intimidating blacks into leaving the city that was once an African American enclave. It's part of a violent trend seen in other parts of the L.A. area.

Graffiti marks the steeple of the Greater Holy Faith Baptist Church on 155th Street in Compton, a reminder of a time not long ago when African Americans predominated. The city is now 65% Latino and 33% black, and African Americans have been targeted for harassment. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times / January 25, 2013)

January 25, 2013, 6:46 p.m.
The trouble began soon after they arrived.

The black family—a mother, three teenage children and a 10-year-old boy—moved into a little yellow home in Compton over Christmas vacation.

When a friend came to visit, four men in a black SUV pulled up and called him a "nigger," saying black people were barred from the neighborhood, according to Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies. They jumped out, drew a gun on him and beat him with metal pipes.

It was just the beginning of what detectives said was a campaign by a Latino street gang to force an African American family to leave.

The attacks on the family are the latest in a series of violent incidents in which Latino gangs targeted blacks in parts of greater Los Angeles over the last decade.

Compton, with a population of about 97,000, was predominantly black for many years. It is now 65% Latino and 33% black, according to the 2010 U.S. census. But it's not only historically black areas that have been targeted.

Federal authorities have alleged in several indictments in the last decade that the Mexican Mafia prison gang has ordered street gangs under its control to attack African Americans. Leaders of the Azusa 13 gang were sentenced to lengthy prison terms earlier this month for leading a policy of attacking African American residents and expelling them from the town.

Similar attacks have taken place in Harbor Gateway, Highland Park, Pacoima, San Bernardino, Canoga Park and Wilmington, among other places. In the Compton case, sheriff's officials say the gang appears to have been acting on its own initiative.

Sheriff's detectives said Friday they had arrested Jeffrey Aguilar, 19, of Gardena and Efren Marquez, 21, of Rialto, both alleged members of the Compton Varrio 155 gang, and are continuing to look for more assailants.

"This family has no gang ties whatsoever," Sheriff's Lt. Richard Westin said. "They are complete innocent victims here."

The 19-year-old family friend managed to break free that first day and run into the house, where the children were the only ones at home.

The attackers left, but a half-hour later a crowd of as many as 20 people stood on the lawn yelling threats and epithets. A beer bottle crashed through the living room window as the youngsters watched in horror.

"They were scared if they called the sheriff they'd be killed," Westin said. "So they called their mom, who called the Sheriff's Department."

The gang members were gone by the time deputies arrived, but they kept coming back, almost daily, driving by slowly until they got someone's attention, then yelling racial insults and telling them to leave. The mother sent the children to live with relatives and is now packing up to leave herself.

"This gang has always made it clear they have a racial hatred for black people," said Westin, who has worked in the area for more than two decades. "They justify in their own sick minds because of their rivalry with the Compton black gangs. They repeatedly used racial epithets, they use racial hatred graffiti and they tag up the black church a lot."

At the home on 153rd Street on Friday, the rain-drenched street was empty and quiet. But the gang's presence was clear.

Its tags marked several long walls, stop signs, curbs and school crossing signs — often with the nicknames of individual gang members included.

Crews remove the graffiti almost every morning.

Down the street, the Greater Holy Faith Missionary Baptist Church — a remnant from the time when Compton was almost all black — is often tagged, most recently, just below the cross.

Neighbors say its pastors come on Sundays and no longer live in the area.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0126-compton-20130126,0,977110.story

[willie pete]

maybe they should re-evaluate their county pensions?

San Bernardino county employees are enrolled in the San Bernardino County Employees Retirement Association (SBCERA) pension fund. SBCERA provides both refundable and non refundable retirement contribution plans.[12] (http://gold-silver.us/forum/#cite_note-11)
In July, 2011, following a request through the California Public Records Act, SBCERA released data on all monthly retirement allowances. Initially, SBCERA refused to release the names of county employees receiving over $90,000 annually. Following a court order, SBCERA released all member names.[13] (http://gold-silver.us/forum/#cite_note-12)
The released information revealed that 446 retirees currently receive over $100,000 a year in pension benefits. As a whole, the agency pays out more than $278 million a year to 8,800 retired employees.[14] (http://gold-silver.us/forum/#cite_note-13)
San Bernardino County Supervisor Janice Rutherford proposed sweeping reforms to county employee pension benefits, including a cap on benefits and restricting the practice of pension spiking. Assembly Bill 340, carried by Sen. Gloria Negrete McLeod, D-Montclair, prohibits county workers from cashing out unused vacation and sick time at the end of their careers. It also prohibits employees from spiking pensions with raises and bonuses awarded at the end of their careers. Last week, the county released a list of 595 county retirees who earn pensions of more than $90,000 a year. Of those retirees, more than 34 percent earn more than $100,000 per year, and 37 percent earn more than $200,000 a year. [15] (http://gold-silver.us/forum/#cite_note-14)
To prevent pension spiking, Rutherford proposes that an employee's final compensation be based on a three- to five-year average as opposed to their highest base pay in one year. She is also proposing: [16] (http://gold-silver.us/forum/#cite_note-15)


limiting pension allowances to no more than 70 percent of pre-retirement salary or a fixed maximum benefit cap. If an employee exceeds the salary cap, then the employee and the county could make additional contributions into a 401(k) type plan.
Voter approval for any benefit increases, similar to ballot measures adopted in Riverside and Orange counties.
Increasing eligibility age to keep pace with life expectancy trends and to discourage early retirement of productive employees.
Further limit post-retirement employment by cutting the amount of hours retirees can work for the county while still receiving pension benefits, known as double dipping.
Establish a hybrid retirement system like the one available to federal employees, which would include a mixture of a defined-benefit plan and a 401(k) plan.
Eliminate the ability to purchase additional retirement credits.



Read more: http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/San_Bernardino_County,_California#ixzz2J9VdotbJ

[General of Darkness]

THIS IS WHAT A CONSTITUTIONAL SHERIFF SOUNDS LIKE (Audio) (http://www.meetup.com/SCMLA2/messages/boards/thread/30807462)

TRANSCRIPT:
"I'm Sheriff David Clarke and I want to talk to you about something personal: Your safety. It's no longer a spectator sport. I need you in the game, but are you ready? With officers laid off on furlough, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option. You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back. But are you prepared? Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there. You have a duty to protect yourself and your family. We're partners now. Can I count on you? This safety message brought to you by the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office."

We're partners? Get the fuck out of here. Here's a question, if I call you and say there's someone in my house and I've already shot them, are you going to show up, shoot my dogs, shot or arrest me?

EDIT, PATCOLO, I'm not saying this to you but to David Clarke.

[Horn]

Here's a question, if I call you and say there's someone in my house and I've already shot them, are you going to show up, shoot my dogs, shot or arrest me?

See but in your case general,

the blood stains from someone being drug up the front steps would be the give away...[sarc off]

[Shami-Amourae]

Same thing for Milwaukee Sheriff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW_3n5kER_A

[Ponce]

I have my own little map of "Latinos" taking over CA and they are doing it as the Zionist in Palestine, the only thing that is missing are the twenty foot fences.....everyday they are expanding more and more.

V

[Shami-Amourae]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsOSP0I27o0

[mick silver]

just maybe with all the buy back of guns they will start handing them back out