"The city manager is running the city not the city council and that needs to stop." ---Ward Four city council candidate Paul Davis at the Friday Morning Club. ****UPDATE**** Save Our Chinatown Committee seeks restraining order on Saturday Members of the Save Our Chinatown Committee stated through an...

"What behavior was taking place, I don't know. We've just come to the conclusion that he was definitely not a suspect." ---Michelle Van Der Linden, a spokeswoman for the Chino Police Department after officers shot and killed an innocent bystander. The Human Resources Board in Riverside found out tod...

"They want a better quality of life, which includes more time with their family and friends. You have people working there almost 24-7. How long are you going to last doing that? Not long." ---Former Supervising District Attorney Brian Sussman, who retired. "It is a brain drain. You lose your experi...

I've received this "love" letter at Inland Empire Craigslist. I hadn't received one in a while (with the last being after I blogged about Officer Robert Forman by someone upset that I had done that) but this one is a zinger. Someone actually is commenting not on any posts I've written but for some r...

"If he did something, it would be contrary to everything I know about him. This was not the person I knew." ---Sam Goepp about Riverside County Sheriff's Department Investigator Kevin Duffy who killed himself. Duffy was the subject of a criminal probe at the time of his death. There's been a lot of ...

"The sky is falling." ---Chicken Little who's got a following at City Hall in River City these days involving the CPRC. What does an independent, parallel and timely investigation by the Community Police Review Commission look like? That is something that City Hall doesn't want city residents to kno...

"To elect a biracial president is the worst thing for these white supremacists. He's their antichrist." ---California State University, San Bernardino professor of criminology, Brian Levin who is a nationally recognized expert on hate crimes and incidents. The African-American Historical Society hel...

“When you add all these things together and look at what happened, it couldn’t have been anything but race.� ---LAPD Sgt. Wayne Guillary “We are aware that Mr. Guillary has filed a complaint with the Riverside Police Department and, just as we do in any case, we await the outcome of the inte...

***UPDATE*** Former BART Officer Johannes Mehserle has been arrested by police in connection with the fatal onduty shooting of Oscar Grant. In the past few months, I have begun the task of checking the city's police facilities, community centers and libraries for the availability of complaint forms ...

"There was an (City Council) election. Things changed. He's (City Manager Brad Hudson) marching in a new direction. I don't think he's as devious as he's accused of being." ---Riverside Ward One Councilman Mike Gardner to Columnist Dan Bernstein. And Mr. Gardner, how successful do you think your att...