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Burglaries, Robberies And A Pot-Laced Cookie Incident

San Mateo County law enforcement has been called out to investigate a number of colorful crimes in the past few weeks.  Below are just a few examples of the calls that have come in.

Menlo Park Police said that they were recently called out to talk to a 24 year-old female who had her shoes stolen while she was walking across a pedestrian bridge.  He cell phone was also stolen during the attack.  The suspect said the man tried to remove her pants, but he ran off when she fought back.  The suspect is still at large.

A few days later, …

By |September 15th, 2014|San Mateo County Bail Bonds|Comments Off on Burglaries, Robberies And A Pot-Laced Cookie Incident
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San Diego Schools Get Armored Vehicle

A spokesperson for the San Diego Unified School District has confirmed that SDUSD has received an armored vehicle thanks to military surplus program.

The tank, which is not unlike military vehicles that have been used in the middle east during the Iraq War, is able to drive through barricades and can also withstand explosives.

SWAT teams throughout the US often use similar types of armored cars and are able to acquire them through an "Excess property program" that's run by the Department of Defense.  Ultimately, it provides unneeded military equipment to law enforcement agencies at zero cost.

Representatives from SBUSD say the …

By |September 12th, 2014|San Diego Bail Bonds|Comments Off on San Diego Schools Get Armored Vehicle
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    Judge Rules That Sheriff Can’t Restrict Jail-Mail To Postcards

Judge Rules That Sheriff Can’t Restrict Jail-Mail To Postcards

In 2010, the Ventura County Sheriff's Department approved a measure that restricted the types of mail that can come into the county jails.

Namely, letters and cards were out- and postcards were in.

The reason for this, according to sources within the corrections department, was their wanting to take a proactive approach to restricting contraband.  People on the outside were starting to get a little too creative in terms of how they were smuggling drugs into the facility and the sheriff's department felt a postcard only policy would help thwart that.

But thanks to the recent lawsuit filed by Prison Legal News, …

By |September 11th, 2014|National|Comments Off on Judge Rules That Sheriff Can’t Restrict Jail-Mail To Postcards
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What The Ferguson Police Can Learn From The LAPD

The community of Ferguson, Missouri has a lot of healing to do in the upcoming months; some say police there can and should take a few lessons from how the LAPD handled their city after the Rodney King riots.

More than 50 people died in the LA riots.  Back then, many saw the Los Angeles Police Department as an "occupying army" of sorts-  they certainly didn't seem like a police force.

A lot has changed in Southern California in the past 22 years.  The federal government stepped in to help transform the department.  They also worked to get a new police …

By |September 9th, 2014|National|Comments Off on What The Ferguson Police Can Learn From The LAPD
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San Jose Police: Arrested Naked Guy Had 3 Warrants

A spokesperson for the San Jose Police Department has confirmed the naked guy they arrested last week was found to have three outstanding warrants.

It all started several days ago when officers received word that a man who wasn't wearing anything except shoes was seen wandering around downtown.  Police said they aren't sure when the guy started removing his clothes, but they did suspect he was high on some sort of drug.

The suspect was reportedly wandering from house to house and eventually sat down on someone's porch.  Residents and their children were frightened, they said, so they tried to subdue …

By |September 8th, 2014|Santa Clara County|Comments Off on San Jose Police: Arrested Naked Guy Had 3 Warrants
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Robbery Suspect Drives Himself To SDPD Headquarters

Sources within the San Diego Police Department say the prime suspect in an armed robbery was captured outside the SDPD headquarters.

Earlier this week a Chula Vista store employee approached a man in the parking lot. There was reason to believe he had stolen a handful of things from the store.

The suspect brandished a gun and proceeded to load himself and his wheelchair into a van.

The police were notified and spotted the vehicle getting onto the northbound lanes of Interstate 805.  Officers tried to stop him, but he refused to pull over.

The pursuit continued into the streets of downtown San …

By |September 5th, 2014|San Diego Bail Bonds|Comments Off on Robbery Suspect Drives Himself To SDPD Headquarters
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Car Theft Blamed On Inmate Overcrowding

In Oct. 2011, California initiated its inmate realignment program, which required that certain inmates who would have once been sentenced to serve time at state run prisons be shifted to the county jails.

Since that time, local detention centers have been dealing with growing pains and many have started to burst at the seams.   The answer to this, according to sheriff's officials, has been to let certain local low-level pre-trial offenders out on their own recognizance;  sentenced inmates are often being released early.
Booked, released and rearrested a week later
36 year-old Chico transient who was arrested on car theft charges last …

By |September 4th, 2014|The Illegal & Unlawful|Comments Off on Car Theft Blamed On Inmate Overcrowding
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Who Started Law Enforcement Militarization?

After the recent events in Ferguson, MO, there's been a lot of conversation about whether the government should continue its practice of giving military gear to local law enforcement agencies.

Where did law enforcement militarization begin in the US, we should be wondering.

According to Robert Slayton, a Chapman University professor we should be looking back to the 1950s and LAPD Chief William Parker.

When Chief Parker took over the department, a number of changes took place:

First, they started hiring officers based on merit (as opposed to the former "old boy network" or who knew who within the city's political ranks).
Parker started …

By |August 28th, 2014|Los Angeles Bail Bonds|Comments Off on Who Started Law Enforcement Militarization?
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Uber-bad Decisions?

California State Senator Ben Hueso may be rethinking his decision to vote against ride-sharing after being arrested on a DUI just hours after voting casting a vote which is considered against the ride-share industry.

Last Thursday night, just hours after he voted in favor of adding hefty regulations to the popular taxi-alternative services, he was picked up by the California Highway Patrol after he was seen driving the wrong way down a one way street.

Hueso was booked into the Sacramento County Jail on two counts of misdemeanor DUI.  He was released the following morning after posting $1,500 bail bonds.

Twitter followers …

By |August 27th, 2014|The Illegal & Unlawful|Comments Off on Uber-bad Decisions?
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How Flawed Is GPS Tracking Technology?

These days, thanks to jail realignment, more and more inmates are being released from custody using GPS monitoring devices.

Some of them have yet to be convicted; others have been sentenced for their crimes.  Recent reports show that in Orange County, two convicted sex offenders who were released from the Orange County Jail on ankle-bracelet monitoring are now facing murder charges.

Both men had not only cut the devices off, they fled to Las Vegas.  When authorities realized what happened they didn't send these men back to jail.  Instead, they got a slap on the wrist, had the bracelets re-attached and …

By |August 26th, 2014|Orange County Bail Bonds|Comments Off on How Flawed Is GPS Tracking Technology?
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