Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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On February 23, the Los Angeles City Council heard an update on the work done to create a non-police response program to deal with nonviolent calls. The city council called for the program development in June, 2020, during the height of outrage sweeping the country following the sensational death of George Floyd, arrested for allegedly trying to pass a counterfeit bill. Floyd was later discovered to have a great deal of fentanyl in his system. Since then, the city's chief...
3/4/21: It was the latest in a string of brazen robberies. This one occurred in daylight hours in the heart of Beverly Hills. The crime occurred at Il Pastaio Restaurant on North Canon Drive. Three men approached a couple sitting outdoors and dining, in order to steal a Rolex watch from a man. He fought back, though, trying to grab the gun from the robbers. A no doubt brave, but dangerous move. The gun discharged, and a woman was shot in the leg. She was an uninvolved...
Courts & Rulings U.S. Supreme Court weighs scope of police power to enter homes without a warrant U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared reluctant to give police unlimited power to enter a home without a warrant when pursuing a suspect for a minor crime in a case involving a California driver tailed by an officer after honking his horn while listening to music. The driver, Arthur Lange, was later convicted of driving under the influence after being confronted...
Prison is a small city, both in physical layout and in how it operates. You have ghetto areas, higher class areas, drug-addicted clusters, etc. So, its not a far stretch to see how crime would be and is committed on a regular basis. All types of crime. As I told you in my article 'Baptized By Fire,' many brutal crimes go unreported. Others, like myself, are left with traumatic memories. Stuck between a desire to help stop this and my own self preservation. Maybe by unlocking...
Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced today that a man who sold dozens of sick puppies to families will be paying more than $200,000 in restitution to the victims. "The pets that we bring into our homes become a beloved part of our family. Trying to sell sick puppies to unsuspecting people is just plain wrong," District Attorney Gascón said. "That's why it's so important to use established animal shelters or pet adoption agencies so that we avoid becomin...
A 32-year-old, convicted felon from Santa Monica was indicted last Friday on gun-related charges after he allegedly shot into his neighbor's backyard during a family gathering, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Jason Scott Walsh was charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition, possession of an unregistered firearm and possession of a firearm without a serial number, said ATF officials. He been in federal custody since Feb....
That's right. Jpay is out as the prisoner email provider! A brand new deal between CDCR and www.gtl.net is in place and signed. This will widely expand the tablet program, allowing the use of inmate tablets and email service for ALL prisoners in every state prison and fire camp in California! Starting in April, each state prisoner will begin receiving their new, free tablet from gtl.net! Presently, only 6 prisons in the state have tablets! Now all prisons and fire camps will...
There was a female serial rapist. A female serial rapist, a prison rapist, raping women in a women's prison, VSPW, while I was there! She was big. She was ugly. A black female. Tall, a bit older. She looked the part. She went in and out of ad-seg due to receiving SHU terms serious violent incidents. Her series of rapes began before I even came to prison. It continued as she came out of the SHU and landed in the unit I was in. I was a unit worker called a 'porter.' I saw the...
I owe the Governor Gavin Newsom a huge thank you for my Moderna vaccine!! I suppose I'll begin by telling you the Moderna vaccine has been given to me and my fellow prisoners several days this week here at CIW. I got it. However, I'm not going to take the 2ND dose! My decision is made firmly on that . I don't trust this vaccine. So, I'm not going to second base with it. I'd say MOST women refused the vaccine in my unit. So, we now have 3 buildings on the yard on quarantine....
ADDA Lawsuit Judge mulls DA union request to stop Gascón from enforcing directives The union representing Los Angeles County prosecutors urged a judge Tuesday to issue a preliminary injunction stopping District Attorney George Gascón from enforcing directives eliminating three-strikes allegations and some sentencing enhancements, but a lawyer for the county's top prosecutor said that would thwart the will of voters who elected Gascón. City News Service Judge hears ar...
It might surprise you to know that until about 6 years ago, I lived in here in the prison environment in a state of despair. I was unmotivated, unfocused and waited until 10 years in to begin doing drugs. My parole board date was too far off in the distance to think about. I did not allow any of the thriving prisoners to mentor me because I did not trust anyone. I believed I was happy in my bubble. I had accepted what I could. not have: HOPE. Then, California voters passed a...
Santa Monica has just signaled it will not tolerate rent gouging during a state of emergency. Last Friday, the SM City Attorney's Office announced it filed a criminal complaint charging the owners of an apartment building at 1433 Euclid Street with "unlawfully raising a tenant's rent by more than the allowed 10 percent during a declared emergency," caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. The landlords, WS Communities, LLC and 1433 Euclid Street, LLC, have been charged with three...
The SMPD says that they have arrested one homeless man for trying to kill another. The press release follows below. On January 31, 2021 at about 11:21 p.m., officers from the Santa Monica Police Department responded to the intersection of 4th and Colorado regarding an "unknown trouble" call. When officers arrived on scene, they discovered a male victim who was bleeding profusely from his face. The victim told officers he was punched several times in the face by an unknown indi...
Sunday night, 1/18, the Los Angeles Police Department sent two rather shocking tweets. Victims Shot in South LA are up 742% compared to last year, says the LAPD. And homicides are up 150% in the first two weeks of 2021, over the same period in 2020. "Tonight, we are saddened to share some shocking crime stats," reads the tweet from LAPD HQ. "16 days into 2021, and Homicides in South LA are up 150% compared to last year. " "It's our shared responsibility-law enforcement,...
I just don't know how anyone maintains any interest in fiction when real life is so damned riveting. I have a dilemma on my hands. Should I practice the simple principle of forgiveness? Or should I file a suit for personal injury?? I know you have a thousand questions, so let me explain ... I'm a seizure patient. I have been for a long time. Last week, I suffered a seizure and, per medical standard procedure, from the floor where I lay, I was placed on a stretcher and taken to...
Courts & Rulings Allegation of strike as to one count applies to others The Court of Appeal for this district, in a 2-1 opinion, held on Friday that where an information alleged in connection with three counts a prior which, under the Three Strikes Law constituted a "strike," the trial judge did not err in doubling the sentence under another count although a strike had not been pled as to that count. Metropolitan News-Enterprise Requiring daily visits to probation officer by...
I sincerely wish a Happy New Year to you, Santa Monica, and beyond!! I do not let the fact that I've been on almost one month straight of 23 1/2 hours in my cell a day keep me from at least trying to have a positive and outlook and attitude. Guys, I won't lie, I'm struggling to see positive right now. Sensory deprivation is a hard thing to go through. That's why it's usually used as a punishment. That's also why it causes PTSD and induces mental illnesses in people. I'm not...
Courts & Rulings Sex offenders can qualify for early parole, California court rules The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that inmates who have been convicted of nonviolent sex crimes may be eligible for early parole consideration in the state as part of a ballot measure that nearly two-thirds of voters approved of four years ago. "The initiative's language provides no indication that the voters intended to allow the (Corrections) Department to create a wholesale...
Los Angeles, December 30, 2020 – This morning the Association of Deputy District Attorneys for Los Angeles County (ADDA) filed a civil lawsuit seeking a writ of mandate, as well as declaratory and injunctive relief. The suit asks that District Attorney George Gascón follow California state constitutional and statutory law. These laws, enacted by the voters and the state legislature, tested and deemed constitutional by the judiciary, must be respected by the executive. The laws...
"Get out of the car and put your hands on your head!" shouted one of six uniformed SMPD officers to a young female driver in a stolen white Prius C. They had been trailing the Prius for ten minutes, a few minutes after an Uber Eats delivery guy reported that someone had driven off with his car. The vehicle, which belongs to the Company, is part of a trend noted recently by the SMPD, said an officer who spoke to us off the record, because he was not authorized to speak to the...
In what is quickly becoming a conspiracy theory wrapped in an enigma buried in a prison graveyard, reports out of Sing Sing prison say that Jeffrey Epstein's final prison roommate has died of yeah, right, Covid-19. The convicted pedophile's last roommie, whose name is reportedly Efrain Reyes, was moved away from Epstein when the latter was put on suicide watch. It didn't work; Hillary got to Jeffrey anyway. Reyes, 51, was found dead on Nov. 27 inside his mother’s apartment i...
A Lancaster father of four has been charged with decapitating his teenage son and daughter and abusing his other two boys last week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Taylor allegedly held two younger children hostage, 8 and 9 years of age, after decapitating his 12 and 13 year old children. Their mother appears to also have been present in the home. "Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., 34 faces two felony counts each of murder and child abuse under circumstances...
Police captured a bank robber who used a shotgun to rob the Wells Fargo Bank on Main Street in Santa Monica Tuesday morning. Aaron Koehler-Marsh, 27, from Bend, Indiana, had used a shotgun to obtain an unspecified sum of money from a teller, just after 9 AM. "Upon arrival, officers observed the suspect inside a vehicle exiting the bank parking lot. Officers conducted a high-risk traffic stop at the intersection of Neilson Way and Bicknell. The as yet unnamed suspect was taken...
Courts & Rulings Juvenile justice reform's legal challenge impacts Santa Cruz child murder case Adrian "A.J." Gonzalez, now 21, was arrested and charged with murder as a 15 year old. The California Supreme Court will soon weigh a case with implications for whether Gonzalez and others like him should face the adult or juvenile justice system. Oral arguments begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday in San Francisco in the "O.G. vs The Superior Court of Ventura County" case, challenging the...
The SMPD announced that it busted into a house in Santa Monica Monday, seizing weapons and drugs from a suspected cocaine dealer in North Hollywood. Guadalupe Zuniga was arrested for narcotics arresting. He was also arrested in 2019 on the same charge. The SMPD press release, written by Myesha Morrison, follows. Santa Monica PD's Special Investigations Unit (SUI) along with the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) concluded a long-term investigation into a high-level...
