The Bellwether of how “JUST” a people
are is how well they care for their women. How well they care for their
children, their elderly, their poor and needy. Is in fact how healthy their
society is. Well going through
some of my research this morning I found that antidote written down on a piece
of paper. I wish who ever had given that to me had signed it. Some times I
think many in our society whose responsibility it is to be “JUST” have failed
to act within the guidelines of their duties.
Just,
adjective;
1. Guided
by truth, reason, justice, and fairness: We hope to be just in our understanding of such difficult situations.
2. Done or made according to principle; equitable; proper: a just reply.
3. based on right; rightful; lawful: a just claim.
4. In keeping with truth or fact; true; correct: a just analysis.
5. given or awarded rightly; deserved, as a sentence, punishment, or reward: a just penalty.
Are you all aware of the
recent turn of events in regards the need and or want of a “Gang Injunction”
here in Santa Barbara?
Here is a recent Santa Barbara Independent headline;
“S.B. Dems Oppose Gang Injunction
Crime Stats Show Gang
Activity Dropped This Year”
A link and the entire story can be found at the end of this
posting. I just wish people could be honest about the whole Gang Injunction
situation. Because truth be told the Santa Barbara Independent has released
crime data since 2009 that has shown a Gang Injunction could never be justified
by those numbers. In fact the only reason Gang Injunction talk came about was
to save Santa Barbara
police chief Cam Sanchez’s job. I feel he still needs to be FIRED because he
lacks any integrity and has no true leadership skills and that’s just for
starters.
I have included some of my past postings where I challenged the exploitation
of truly sad and unnecessary deaths for political power. Further on you will
find some real “Gang Crime Data” all the way back to 2005. The Democratic Central Committee has to
play politics not me, but ok we don’t need a Gang Injunction because of 2012 crime
data (wink wink).
In closing a few weeks back I went for a ride first on the Eastside,
then the Westside and finally the mesa and not only did I not see a “Gang
Member” I never saw no youth out. Now my ride was taken on a Saturday evening after
8:30 pm, oh and I did end up having a beer on State street with some of the finer
representatives of Santa Barbara
law enforcement.( I mean that from the heart)
A public comment on the Gang Injunction;
The gang injunction was/is racist in motivation. This community like
most has the ability to scapegoat without reflection. We do have systemic
racial problems resulting phobic reactions. We elected council members, like
Randy Rowse who while addressing another mesa gang, of really an all anglo
crowd before him, praised them and actually flashed a 3-fingers down gang sign
while saying "Go Mesa!" The flashing of Rowses peoples gang sign was
not just an insensitivity but a provocation that no one seems to care about
because they are part of the problem. Otherwise we should have been aghast.
We've got a major malfunction going on here. The problem starts with our
chamber of commerce type club members who use people, chews them up and then
spits them out when they find they are of little use to them.
My challenge on crime states found in the Santa Barbara District
Attorney’s presentation to the Board of Supervisors
When you read numbers given out about "Gang Issues/Crime”
here in Santa Barbara more
often than not a high percentage number is used rather than factual numbers.
For example in last years 14 page District Attorney's budget flyer
(attached to this email) it immediately starts out on pg 3 under
"highlights key trends", with the statistic that
Gang crime is up by 1422% over the last ten years. In
order to get some type of perspective on the raise in "Gang
Crime" I looked at the right hand side of Page 3 and saw that the
S.B.D.A.'s office handled a total of 14,633 felony cases in 1 year. Then I went
to page 5 and saw were the D.A.'s office shows only 274 cases were classified
as "Gang", or in other words 0.0187 of 1% percent was "Gang
related". Now lets break that down even further and ask how many of the
274 case were from the City of Santa Barbara and
what portion of those cases came from Santa Maria and Lompoc . Let’s see
1422% vs. .0187 of 1 percent, 1422% does not seem to really reflect
anything does it.
Crime data found in a 2009
Independent story that covers all the way back to 2005
Clouds Gathering Over
Police Chief
Budget Showdown, Mayoral Face-Off
Confront Cam Sanchez
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Santa Barbara Citywide Crime Stats
|
1985
|
1990
|
1995
|
2000
|
2005
|
2008
|
HOMICIDE
|
7
|
6
|
6
|
3
|
0
|
3
|
RAPE
|
24
|
26
|
33
|
38
|
34
|
26
|
ROBBERY
|
75
|
132
|
107
|
58
|
76
|
117
|
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT*
|
139
|
467
|
436
|
371
|
399
|
347
|
AUTO THEFT
|
225
|
350
|
247
|
122
|
207
|
114
|
LARCENY/THEFT
|
1,740
|
3,052
|
2,614
|
1,953
|
2,125
|
1,912
|
ARSON
|
19
|
8
|
18
|
14
|
43
|
32
|
Gang-Related Offenses
|
2005
|
2006
|
2007
|
MURDER
|
0
|
0
|
2
|
ATTEMPTED MURDER
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON
|
16
|
25
|
26
|
BRANDISHING
|
1
|
3
|
4
|
ROBBERY
|
5
|
3
|
6
|
BURGLARY
|
3
|
5
|
1
|
VANDALISM
|
30
|
37
|
37
|
BATTERY
|
5
|
12
|
13
|
KNIFE IN PUBLIC
|
3
|
7
|
8
|
TOTAL GANG RELATED OFFENSES
|
102
|
163
|
177
|
TOTAL CITYWIDE NUMBER OF OFFENSES
|
26,137
|
24,346
|
23,002
|
PERCENTAGE OF CRIME GANG-RELATED
|
00.39%
|
00.70%
|
00.77%
|
Last weeks Independents
story.
http://www.independent.com/news/2012/dec/13/sb-dems-oppose-gang-injunction/#commenttoggle
S.B. Dems Oppose Gang Injunction
Crime Stats Show Gang Activity Dropped This Year
Thursday,
December 13, 2012
The Democratic Central Committee voted overwhelmingly last week
to oppose the gang injunction proposed last March by Santa Barbara Police Chief
Cam Sanchez. The vote came at the instigation of Latino rights activists
affiliated with the new organizationPODER, who argued
the injunction wasn’t warranted by existing crime rates and that the money spent
on the injunction would be more effectively spent on prevention programs
instead. Likewise, the group — a coalition of students affiliated with City College, UCSB, and
Santa Barbara High School — argued the injunction would have a negative impact on
property values in affected neighborhoods and further stigmatize Latino youth.
“Let’s spend money on programs that help kids, not label them,” argued
Cesar Trujillo.
About 17 members of the Democratic Central Committee (DCC) voted to oppose the injunction, a handful abstained, and
a couple voted against taking action. Longtime Democratic Party activist Bob
Handy — and former
Fire and Police Commission member — argued the committee should have heard from gang
injunction supporters before voting. Committtee executive Daraka Larimore-Hall
said the issues behind the gang injunction were hardly new, adding, “We’re a political
party, not a debating society.” Larimore-Hall and other critics of the gang
injunction expressed concern such a major policy direction was adopted without
any public hearing by the Santa Barbara City Council.
To date, the City Council has reportedly not voted on the matter
but has been briefed on several occasions in closed-door hearings.
Councilmember Cathy Murillo, an opponent of the injunction, acknowledged she
participated in one such meeting but declined to provide any details of what
was said — and by
whom — because of
confidentiality concerns. While Murillo lauded the arguments made by PODER activists, she expressed skepticism
the injunction could be reversed. “That train left the station,” she said.
Last week’s vote will cause further friction between the DCC and Santa Barbara Mayor Helene
Schneider, a Democrat, who appeared at the press conference with Police Chief
Sanchez when he first announced he would file civil legal action against 30 of
the “worst of the worst” gang members, limiting their ability to associate with
one another in public. Sanchez, who had opposed gang injunctions for years,
switched positions just months after two high-profile homicides took place in
2010 in which non-gang members were killed by gang members.
Though not available for comment this week, Sanchez has taken
issue with the argument that the injunction promotes ethnic profiling. The
Latino community, he’s insisted, has been disproportionately victimized by gang
activity. And though filed early last year, the gang injunction has been held
up in a variety of court actions. At issue is whether proponents of the
injunction can avail themselves to otherwise confidential juvenile records that
prosecutors insist are needed to make the injunction’s case. A case management
conference is scheduled this January. In the meantime, PODER intends to take its case to the Latino
Democrats, the ACLU,
and the Women’s Political Committee.
According to police records, gang incidents and gang-related
crime dropped in the past year. Reports of “gang related” events dropped from
259 this time last year to 179 for the first 10 months of 2012. The number of
“gang incidents” — defined as
offenses designed to further a street gang — dropped from 153 to 118 in the same time. Only the number
of taggings increased, from 734 to 956. Not all tagging, however, can be tied
to gangs. According to FBI statistics
on Type I crime, the number of violent offenses related to Santa Barbara gangs dropped from 34 to 28 in
the past year and gang-related property crime from 15 to 10.
S.B.C.C.C. The place where COMMON SENSE never goes out of style!
