hn Ruzas – RELEASED 12/18/17 Killer of Trooper Emerson Dillon
Herman Bell – RELEASED 4/27/18 Killer of P.O. Joseph Piagentini & P.O. Waverly Jones
Carlos Flores – RELEASED 4/27/18 Killer of P.O. Robert Walsh
Robert Hayes – RELEASED 7/24/18 Killer of P.O. Sidney Thompson
Demetrius Bennet – RELEASED 10/24/18 Killer of P.O. Ray Cannon
Judith Clark – RELEASED 5/15/19 Killer of Sgt. Edward O’Grady, P.O. Waverly Brown & Peter Paige
Larry Johnson – RELEASED 5/15/19 Killer of P.O. Anthony Abruzzo
Betsy Ramos – RELEASED 12/10/19 Killer of P.O. Anthony Mosomillo
Ernest Alston – RELEASED 12/26/19 Killer of P.O. Melvin Hopkins
Orlando Puente – RELEASED 1/6/20 Killer of Lt. Jan Brinkers
Steven Chirse – RELEASED 4/21/20 Killer of P.O. Angelo Brown
Karl Dean – RELEASED 5/21/20 Killer of Det. Joseph Taylor
The releases of cop killers comes as New York City crime skyrockets. Over the last month, shootings have increased by more than 210 percent compared to the same time last year.
A Fordham University student is threatening to sue the university after it placed him on disciplinary probation related to two Instagram posts.
The first post on Instagram was a picture commemorating slain retired police Capt. David Dorn with the caption, “Y’all a bunch of hypocrites,†referring to the Black Lives Matter movement which the student dislikes.
The second post on Instagram was an image of Tong holding a legally acquired firearm and the caption, “Don’t tread on me,†along with a hashtag remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre, posted on the 31st anniversary of the event. Tong himself left China when quite young to escape the Chinese communists.
The letter from Fordham Dean of Students Keith Eldredge didn’t specify anything wrong with the Instagram posts other than the possession of a firearm, referring to social media posts “related to the current racial issues in the country and political issues in China.â€
The refusal to specify what was wrong with them shows even Fordham knows how ridiculous this is, and referring to Tiananmen Square as a “political issue in China†sounds like it’s straight out of a Chinese propaganda handbook.
Fordham found that senior Austin Tong’s posts violated its policies on “bias and/or hate crimes†and “threats/intimidation.†The probation restricts his access to campus, forcing him to finish his degree online, and bars him from participating in extracurricular activities. The university also ordered Tong to complete implicit bias training and to write a letter of apology. Â
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Firenze Sage:  Who is Tong supposed to apologize to?
Black Lives Matters — started in 2013 – is narrowly focused on police brutality towards Afro-Americans. Black Lives Matters is not helping Blacks. What really needs to happen for the Afro-American community to thrive?
Dr. Jacqui Lewis, an Afro-American pastor in New York City with Middle Collegiate Church, offers two anti-racist workshops.  She discusses only what to do about racism towards…. blacks.
But what about racism towards whites?   Whites Believe They Are Victims of Racism More Often Than Blacks
from Social Work Today:Â Â “Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School.
“Both whites and blacks agree that anti-black racism has decreased over the last 60 years, according to the study. However, whites believe that anti-white racism has increased and is now a bigger problem than anti-black racism.
“It’s a pretty surprising finding when you think of the wide range of disparities that still exist in society, most of which show black Americans with worse outcomes than whites in areas such as income, home ownership, health, and employment,” says Tufts Associate Professor of Psychology Samuel Sommers, PhD, coauthor of the study that appears in Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Researchers asked a nation-wide sample of 208 blacks and 209 whites to indicate the extent to which they felt blacks and whites were the targets of discrimination in each decade from the 1950s to the 2000s. A scale of 1 to 10 was used, with 1 being “not at all” and 10 being “very much.”
White and black estimates of bias in the 1950s were similar. Both groups acknowledged little racism against whites at that time but substantial racism against blacks. Respondents also generally agreed that racism against blacks has decreased over time, although whites believed it has declined faster than blacks do.
However, whites believed that racism against whites has increased significantly as racism against blacks has decreased. On average, whites rated anti-white bias as more prevalent in the 2000s than anti-black bias by more than a full point on the 10-point scale. Moreover, some 11% of whites gave anti-white bias the maximum rating of 10 compared with only 2% of whites who rated anti-black bias a 10. Blacks, however, reported only a modest increase in their perceptions of “reverse racism.”
“These data are the first to demonstrate that not only do whites think more progress has been made toward equality than do blacks, but whites also now believe that this progress is linked to a new inequality, at their expense,” note researchers. Whites see racial equality as a zero sum game, in which gains for one group mean losses for the other.
Black Lives Matters Inc. (BLM) has been much in the national news. BLM has held various demonstrations. What does BLM say about blacks killing fellow blacks, largely in their own neighborhoods?  Nothing.
The corporate organization Black Lives Matter (BLM) has no message opposing killings by blacks of other blacks.  BLM focuses on police killings of blacks and support de-funding the police as their ‘solution’. What will happen to black neighborhoods with even fewer people wearing blue are keeping the peace? More violence.  Just recently, New York City removed 500 plain clothes police from street duty and violent crime in the City has skyrocketed.
So what to make of all this killing? Blacks kill other blacks in huge numbers.  Unarmed blacks and whites get killed by the police.Â
So – is it ‘whitey’ that’s the real problem?  Is racism — your racism–or ‘structural racism’ — is that’s the problem?  Are you ‘woke’? Do you accept your supposed ‘white privilege’ guilt?
Maybe you’re a bit curious and willing to learn more about ‘white privilege’ and ‘structural racism’?
Well, there’s workshops out there that seek to ‘enlighten’ you.
I attended The Call of the Moment: an Anti-Racism Workshop offered via ZOOM by Dr. Lewis. About 1300 attended. Dr. Lewis plans more workshops in the future.
 Two books by Dr. Lewis are listed as available on Amazon. One of her books is The Power of Stories. Â
Dr. Jacqui Lewis, is Senior Minister of Middle Collegiate Church located in New York City.  She was ordained in the Presbyterian Church and has served in a senior position with Middle Collegiate for about 15 years. Â
Published on VOX on May 29,2020 is the following info:
 Dr. Lewis writes: “And it’s not enough to condemn this particular presidential abuse without also naming how the president [Trump] routinely kills and maims those on the margins through policy.
“Tens of thousands of people are killed each year due to ridiculously lax gun legislation he [Trump] defends. Child hunger is soaring because of our woefully anemic safety net and federal cruelty. Thousands have been kidnapped at our border at his [Trump’s] command.
And more than 16,000 people have already died in my city [New York] because the president failed to prepare for the coronavirus and did not prioritize giving New York the aid we needed. [Oh really? Factual problem here.] Â
Dr. Lewis continues: “So, while I’m horrified by the president’s callousness in demanding houses of worship be allowed to open, I cannot say I’m surprised. And I am not surprised by how many white Americans continue to support him — it is part of our country’s foundational white supremacy. Our social contract has always made its peace with brutality and death to secure the power of whiteness…..” Â
Given the strong bias against President Trump that Dr. Lewis clearly expresses, how ‘loose with the facts’ might Dr. Lewis be when she presents in an anti-racial workshop? More about the Workshop  will be discussed in a separate post. Â
  As. Dr. Lewis lays a huge number of societal problems at one person’s door — President Trump’s door –  how likely is she to consider that behavior on the part of blacks is part of the problem as well as part of the solution?  Â
Per the VOX post, Dr. Lewis blames Trump for killing twelve thousand people in New York City (where she lives and works). The facts do not support her allegations.
It is well publicized that the Mayor of New York moved COVID-19 persons into nursing homes and about 4,500 nursing home patients died. That is what the Mayor of New York City did.  That’s the city where Dr. Lewis lives and works.   It is well known that Trump sent a hospital ship to New York to help out and also it is well known that Trump sent heaps of ventilators that were not needed but New York City received them. There are no indications that Trump killed people in New York.
Dr. Lewis, as published by Vox, states ‘facts’ about Trump that are clearly erroneous for which there is no support. Â
Take Away: The workshop by Dr. Lewis on anti-racism makes no mention of the brutal violence that  male Afro-Americans living in large Democrat controlled cities inflict on other individuals of their color, ethnicity and culture both on physical bodies and on black homes, businesses and neighborhoods. Black violent behaviors harming other blacks was not touched on in the workshop.
Dr. Lewis does talk about ‘holding environments’, that we find our identify in various contexts (home, school, church). She talks about  that the first ‘holding environment’ — the womb. When bullets are flying near by that first ‘holding environment’ is at risk. Â
When black males (6% of the population) commit 50% of murders against their neighbors who are black what’s the effect on the ‘holding environments’ aka wombs of pregnant black women? Check the facts:  Floyd George put a pistol to the stomach of a pregnant woman after pushing his way into her home.  Dr. Lewis writes that there were bullets flying nearby when she was 8, living in Chicago, and it was learned that Martin Luther King had been assassinated.
I think it matters that Afro-Americans are killing, maiming children and aborting black babies in huge numbers. As stated above, 50% of all murders and robberies are committed by black men killing and robbing other blacks who are their neighbors.
In response to what I wrote about blacks killing blacks one person, an episcopal church leader wrote: “Those statistics point to the effects of years of ‘systemic racism’ that have left black people with little to no opportunity and isolated them in ghettos where violence prevails.”Â
A black author in the WSJ Jason Riley says differently. He writes that riots caused businesses to leave inner cities which resulted in social pathologies.  Here are Riley’s words:
“A common assumption among liberals is that the movement of inner-city jobs to the suburbs in the late 1960s is what led to the higher rates of crime, violence and other social pathologies associated with ghetto life. But this gets the order wrong. The business flight took place after the rioting, not before. Will history repeat itself?”
Someone, a christian and member of an episcopal church, wrote on Facebook that a video by Candice Owen  ‘made him feel sick’. He asked people to comment and received 50-60 comments in response.
Some said Candice Owens and Jason Riley, both black conservatives, are ‘shills’ Three disagreed including myself.Â
 Aren’t you just a little more ‘woke’ now ? the person writing on his Facebook page asked of one dissenter. “I reject most of what ‘woke’ stands for” that person responded. Oh dear, not everybody buys into getting ‘woked’.
Another dissenter commented  that for many years most major U.S. cities are run by black politicians …. “ My question:   do these black politicians care about the blacks voters that put them in office? Why have these black politicians produced so little helpful to blacks?
My view: Why blame the huge numbers of blacks killing and robbing  their black neighbors on something called  ‘structural racism’ when it can just as easily be described as  Democrat Party politics as usual? Why? Remember, 2020 is an election year and the Democrats prime goal is to remove Trump from office.
Churches are a main civic organization.  So what has been the response of churches to Black Lives Matters and ‘structural racism’?
The Episcopal Church has been in the news lately.  Remember the picture of Trump standing in front of the church across from the White House which had been torched the night before? Trump had a bible – that picture.
Rev. Curry head of the episcopal church in Washington D.C. says. “I really do believe that we’ve got to face the pain of our past and then work together to create new ways to create a new future.”.Â
I’ve found no discussion by Rev. Curry or other episcopal leaders as to the role blacks specifically play in the violence inflicted by blacks on their black neighbors. Nothing specific as to what blacks can and need to do. The episcopal stance appears to be ‘we stand against racism and structural racism…’ Â
So what are some of the factors why black men commit 50% of all murders?Â
Listen to voices who published Letters in WSJ June 13-14, 2020:  These letters cite Prof. Orlando Patterson’s essay “The Long Reach of Racism in the U.S.” (Review, June 6). One voice names the failure of black office holders. The number of black children born without a father in the home and black reliance on government programs instead of finding meaningful work is listed as another factor by another voice.
My views: It’s complicated and there’s many  factors why black men commit 50% of all U.S. violent crimes. Something not talked about is the role of feminism and easy access to abortions.   Feminism and ‘my body is my own to do as I please‘ comes to mind.  Due to Planned Parenthood, there’s easy availability of abortion as a primary birth control method. In New York City more black babies are aborted than born.  How do those young black almost-a-father and never-had-a-choice black men feel? Ask them.
Black fathers don’t appear to matter.  What about self esteem issues and attaching value for who you are.  Look at the Black Lives Matter website and you will find no role, no value, no interest in black fathers, black sons or black families with a mother and father as a married entity. Marriage and family and the place of the black man as father are not valued  by Black Lives Matters. Take a look at their web site.
Self esteem comes from learning skills that are age grounded.  Riding a bike at 4. Learning to read and later learning how to reason and think logically by early teens. These contribute to the development of self esteem. Learning a skill that can result in a wage is another crucial step for young people. The union controlled public schools produce poorly educated persons of all colors including young black men.
Effect of the unions.  In the 1930’s thousands of young blacks went north to get jobs. The blacks had carpentry and other skills and got jobs.  Then the Davis Bacon Act was passed which requires that ‘prevailing wages’ be paid. The act was passed to limit blacks from getting jobs. Time to change the law?
Recent events:  Now we learn that a bad, bad white cop with 18 disciplinary actions killed a black man he knew (they were bouncers together) while several other cops stood by and did nothing. Those other cops were complicit and contributed to the death of that black.  For years, that bad cop was protected by the police unions.
Yes — it’s time to rein in the power police unions. And time to rein in the school unions that produce poorly educated persons of all colors.
Unions for public employees. That is a major culprit. The police unions protect the bad cops. The school unions protect the bad teachers. Together as a result we get poorly educated young persons of all colors. And there are all sorts of factors why young black men take guns and kill and rob other blacks.
There’s no real bartering when the police and school unions sit down across the table from the politicians — the Democrats — who they paid to put in office. For example, t he SEIU paid $60 million to put Obama in office in 2008.
We don’t need ‘structural racism’ to explain why black Democrat politicians  in large cities do nothing about the power of police unions and the power exerted by school unions.
Why unions for public employees stay in power:  Old fashioned greed is a simple and better explanation why no change over the years.  Both sides want more and both give to each other more to get more.
This is why there should not be public employee unions. There has to be an adversarial relationship when those representing the public purse sit down to discuss money with representatives of public schools and the police.
So what to do so young blacks stop killing and robbing other blacks? Become part of the solution. How?
Churches: Are you a member of a church? Get local churches to cooperate and work together.   Episcopals with Catholics, Protestants  and others – can work collaboratively to support family values that weaken and reduce the power of Hispanic and Black gangs.  That’s a no brainer. Encourage young men to marry and staying married to the women with whom they have children. That’s also a no brainer.  Intact families with a mother and father in the home create and raise children who go to college and get jobs. How support families?  How and when? Do so around Christmas which celebrates the birth of Jesus into a family with a father in the home.
The organization Black Lives Matters:  Call out Black Lives Matters for what it is –  a marxist organization which is anti- nuclear family and puts forth policies and falsehoods  which harm blacks. Look at their website carefully. There is no message on the BLM web site saying to black men to STOP killing other blacks.  There is no support on the BLM web site for black fathers to marry the mothers of their children. There’s no discussion of the importance of male relationships between fathers and sons. And, there is no BLM message to young woman to ‘stop aborting black babies’ and re-think whether  a government check and transfer payments for the next 18 years is a good deal.
Schools: Work to create more charter schools in your community and use of money that will mean more accountability by public schools to produce better educated (literate and meet specific standards in math and reading) young people of all color. Blacks don’t learn to read in CA schools.  Require schools to provide classes that can assist all students in getting jobs. Require all students to learn at least one skill that could lead to a job.
Note:  This post was reviewed  7/1/20. Some  changes made to clarify the main points and preserve the privacy of persons who commented.
So what say you? Become part of the conversation! It is easy to comment. Monterey Bay Forum is exactly that — a forum for discussion of ideas.
This post was written by Cameron Jackson,  licensed CA psychologist PSY14762     127 Jewell Street, Santa Cruz, CA  95060      DrCameronJackson@gmail.comÂ
Wonder what the young black woman, Candice Owens, has to say?  This is from You Tube and she has a mouthful to say about why blacks kill blacks.
Killing blacks. Looting. Violence. Black Lives Matter? So what say Catholic, Episcopal and Trinity Covenant church leaders in Aptos, CA — if anything —  on Trinity Sunday  about the recent killing of an unarmed black, about riots and looting?
The Catholic priest at Resurrection Church said nothing  about recent events. no reference to the riots, the looting or the killing of an unarmed black man by a white policeman. What Fr. R  said:  God is love and love means relationships and ….  make your daily relationships about love. God is love and love means relationship. A simple message.   Catch it on You Tube.
At  Trinity Covenant Church the  minister T.M. started his sermon with the words, It’s a sin to kill. It’s a sin to loot….  He went on to say, Look at Black Lives Matter website, See  what the Movement stands for. You will find that  Black Lives Matter is anti-family…. Of note, at Trinity Covenant you can worship in the sanctuary (with social distancing), outside in your car in the parking lot or listen in from home.
Take a look at the Black Lives Matters website.  Click the link.  Black Lives Matters  promotes inter-generational, non-nuclear family arrangements. There’s  mothers, kids and they all live together with perhaps a queer or two. Maybe an aunt or two also hanging out with them. No mention about men and their role.
Hey, Black Lives Matters folks: Where are the Afro-American men that fathered the children? Who is telling black men  to stop killing other  blacks and start raising kids with a mother and father present in the home? A terribly huge percentage of black deaths (85+%)  are committed by black men. That is the real problem. Last year police killed twice as many white unarmed me (19) compared to black unarmed men (9). Those are the hard, cold statistics that Black Lives Matters chooses to ignore. Check out last week’s Wall Street Journal for the most recent statistics.
Who is going to tell blacks to wake up and smell the roses?  Check out the facts. If you black mamas  and black poppas want  your children to go to college then get married and stay married.  And put your  kids in Charter Schools with non-union teachers. And stop buying into the victimhood card. That’s my view.
The website Black Lives Matters celebrates Obama’s ‘if only I had a son he’d look like Trevon Martin. Black Lives Matters  celebrates the Gentle Giant of Ferguson, the supposed martyr who died after he reached in the police car to grab a gun.  Both those  supposed ‘heroes’  of Black Lives Mater are men with long rap sheets and  a history of violence and use of illegal drugs.
Yes, start listening. Click the link and  Listen to  Candice Owens, a young articulate black with views why blacks celebrate black thugs as martyrs. It’s a community thing. You are a ‘honky’ if want to succeed and you are a martyr if you have a violent history and rap sheet. No other culture celebrates thugs as heroes she notes.
Now, what about  the episcopal church leaders in Aptos? What says the episcopal  priest on Trinity Sunday? Mother T of St. John’s focused on current events specifically on  systemic racism in America.
How Whites should  / or  might  respond to the ‘ systemic racism of police killing Black’ s was the sermon topic Trinity Sunday  by Mother T.   The day before, she attended a Black Lives Matter rally  6/6/ 2020 in Watsonville CA where  Mother T   held a  sign, Black Lives are Holy, Sacred and Created in God’s image. There, she saw another sign,  White Silence Equals Black Deaths. She went to the Black Lives Matter rally  in Watsonville, CA to end white silence.
Mother T with St. John’s prefaced her sermon that she identifies as White and in her sermon was speaking to other Whites.
Essence of  Mother T’s sermon: Sometimes white people need to stop talking and start listening. Repeat that sentence.
One way to start listening she says  is to join the Facebook group Be the Bridge.  This group requires new members to engage in active listening (no posting and no comments) for three months. Three whole months. That impresses Mother T. (It is easy to join. Just follow 3 rules.)
Any discussion of the Trinity on Trinity Sunday  at St. John’s? Not that I noticed. Mother T suggested that  her mostly White parishioners focus on the  re pre-scribed reading for the day, The Creation Story.   God created the world and saw it was good.
The episcopal Mother T added,  There are no adequate analogies to understand the Trinity so  be silent in the face of all we don’t know.
Like a good read? Try  Dorothy Sayers Begin Here, the Mind of the Maker. Sayers writes that God is the Creator and He knows the end of the Story. And he knows the main players such as His son and the Holy Spirit. Sayers writes good crime novels too.
For more on Dorothy Sayers, read Robin Phillips Saints and Scoundrels.Â
What say you about the riots, looting and what the local church leaders in Aptos have to say about Black Lives Matter on Trinity Sunday?  Put your 2 cents in! Â
written by Cameron Jackson  drcameronjackson@gmail.com
Democrat politicians expect you to hand over your brain when thinking about recent lootings, the killing of an unarmed black by a white cop and how to manage Covid-19.  Do you live in a town or city run by Democrats? Watch out! Think for your self!
What can you do about Covid-19, looting in the streets and Democrat policy failures? For sure, vote in November.  In the meanwhile, use your brain to make decisions and do so with courage and a heart that is caring.
Courage. A heart. A brain. That’s what the lion, the tin man and the scarecrow wanted. And those are precisely what Democrat Party policies lacks.
New York is a Democrat stronghold.  New York been a hot spot during the Covid-19 epidemic with a higher death rate than the rest of the U.S. The actual disparity is absolutely shocking. As a proportion of the population, the number of excess deaths in New York City during the epidemic has been 16 times as high as in the rest of America.(Wall Street Journal, The Measure of New York’s Covid Devastation, June 3, 2020).
Many east coast and west coast cities and states are controlled by the Democrat parties. Thanks to Democrat progressive policies,  San Francisco on the west coast is known as the city of feces and homeless. That’s Nancy Pelosi’s home town.
Democrat controlled New York City is  now known as the place where the most die from Covid-19. That’s where 4,300 Covid-19 patients were transfered from New York  hospitals to nursing homes. This exposed the oldest, frailest and most vulnerable to the virus. (WSJ, The Measure of New York’s Covid Devastation, June 3, 2020).
The Democrat politicians that run cities have bought into the belief that the police are a bigger problem than rampant disorder. Where did that belief come from? Remember President Obama and his policies towards the police. Eight years of Obama and his AG Eric Holder have had a huge impact.
In response to the recent killing of a black unarmed man by a white policeman Eric Holder was asked to day 6/3/2020 in a podcast on Obama’s website, ‘what is your most radical dream?‘ Holder replied,‘that people be judged by their deeds and not sterotype people.”
Deeds — let’s judge people based on their deeds says AG Eric Holder.  Blacks make up 13% of the USA population and in 2018 African-Americans and made up 53% of known homocide offenders in the U.S.. African-Americans commit about 60% of all robberies.
What about who is killed by the police?  In 2019, the police fatally shot 9 unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively in 2015.
So, last year in 2019 twice as many unarmed whites were killed compared to unarmed blacks. There’s been no outrage or looting because unarmed white men died.
In 2018 there were 7,404  black homocide victims. That’s alot of blacks dying and most of them are killed by another black person That is the sad, rarely discussed story than Democrat politicians do not address.
What about the safety of police officers?  A police officer is 18 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.  The above statistics are from The Myth of Systemic Police Racism, WSJ, June 8, 2020.
California and New York are both run by Democrats. Both states have been slow to re-open from the Covid-19 pandemic. In Santa Cruz, CA people are still kept off the beaches during th 11-5 hours and people are still “sheltering in place” wearing masks.
What to do? Use your brain, have a heart and show courage.
written by Cameron Jackson  PSY14762 licensed CA psychologist
Will Democrats ‘go for impeachment’ ?  All over a phone call in which President Trump asks about an entity — Crowdstrike — which examined the DNC server and Trump asks about  interference in the 2016 elections.
Did the Democrats do what they accuse Trump of doing?
Is public safety better or worse in Santa Cruz County in 2019? The Democrats control awnings and signs — but what about violent crime, needles and other health issues?
Is public safety better or worse 2019 in Santa Cruz County?
What’s the fall out from years and years of Democrat Party policies on Santa Cruz and Watsonville, CA?
Some current 2019Â impressions:
Kids kill other kids in Watsonville, CA.  Take a look at crime statistics.  Because Watsonville gang members routinely target younger kids, parents keep children inside their homes. Kids are not allowed to ‘hang out’ in their front yards in Watsonville, CA. So parents tell me.
North County Santa Cruz CA frequently ignores South County Watsonville CA  issues. Watsonville and Santa Cruz are two different worlds  joined by Highway 1.
Psychotic adults hang out and talk in loud voices to themselves  at the McDonalds Restaurant  on Ocean Street in Santa Cruz. The Watsonvile McDonalds are much more family centered and much cleaner.
Two ‘more than typical’ Progressives city officials face probable recall by 8000+ Santa Cruz City voters. The recall effort states that these two public officials ignored numerous  public safety issues (needles, human feces and violence) posed by the Ross St encampment. And other issues. Click the recall effort link for more information.
‘Free’ Santa Cruz beaches are far dirtier than the CA County managed beaches which you pay to enter.
Idle adults hang out in droves  near the Santa Cruz COSCO, close to the Ribele Family Shelter Building located at Highway 1 and River St. It does not ‘feel safe’ to drive near by.
Oh, my …… Oh my ….
There’s more control by city government  of ‘the little things’ — such as can a business have a sign or an awning? — than the ‘big picture’ i.e, how can we work with the community to  reduce  violent crime and improve public safety? Â
Opps!!!   Perhaps it’s time for a change from the Democrats and their  policies?
Time to hold Amazon responsible for dangerous products, e.g., Chinese made motorcycle helmets which crack on impact and magnetic toys with no labels which children swallow? Eee-gads.
True story published in the Wall Street Journal:  A mom bought a motorcycle helmet on Amazon for her son who died when he collided with a car.  This motorcycle helmet was labeled safe according to USA federal standards. Not safe, the helmet was  made in China and re-sold on Amazon by a tiny outfit in California When tested, these Chinese made motorcycle  helmets crack on impact.  There’s about 4,000+ of these  helmets still in circulation.
Former Amazon employee Rachael Johnson Greer managed Amazon’s safety systems until 2015. For a number of years the safety section at Amazon consisted of three persons.  Greer now advises third-party Amazon sellers.
Rachael Greer estimates that in 2017 roughly 80% of Amazon’s third-party sellers did not comply with federal, state or industry safety labeling and the vast majority of issues were not having proper warnings and labels.
For the complete story, check out the Wall Street Journal article week of 8/25/2019.  Providing useful information concerning safety gives consumers choice and freedom.
The releases of cop killers comes as New York City crime skyrockets. Over the last month, shootings have increased by more than 210 percent compared to the same time last year.
