"Ralph Brown did away with that." ---The Group Chair Jennifer Vaughn-Blakely at the Governmental Affairs Committee meeting in response to the creation of a not-officially-an-ad hoc committee which will meet privately. The California "sunshine" open meetings law is named after Brown. The Governmental...

"The people who appointed me are the ones who call the shots." ----Community Police Review Commission member, Kenneth Rotker in terms of who he answers to. "I say we move forward with the three OIDs." CPRC Commissioner Art Santore "The reason we're in the charter is precisely so this kind of thing d...

Just in, my first hate letter of the day about writing about Forman is here. And yes, this individual has a name though he chose not to share it with us. In fact, he's got different names all much cuter than he is and an ISP appeared on my site within 20 minutes of when the comment occurred that's b...

Press Enterprise Columnist Dan Bernstein addressed many issues in his most recent article but takes a parting shot at Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco. (excerpt) RivCo might actually have a lawman who's more like Gary Cooper than Quick Draw McGraw. But will Sheriff Stan Sniff, who quie...

There's a lot of attention being given nationwide to the primaries by the two largest political powers (and much less attention given to other political parties that exist) especially what's been going on with the Democrats. But believe it or not, there's a lot of political positions up for grabs am...

"Go back to where you came from." ----A male police officer to Cheryl Gomez-Preston and other female officers in the Detroit Police Department. "We're here to stay." ---Gomez-Preston in response. In 2000, Officer Malinda Spence filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the Ft. Worth Police Departmen...

Installment in an occasional series "Male deputies openly bragging about driving women out of the department, male deputies boasting about turning their backs on domestic violence victims, unrelenting retaliation against female deputies who report harassment, department protection and promotion of t...