Vallejo is a rough place. It's interesting given how expensive other communities are in that area due to proximity to the Bay Area. There are some no-go areas similar to Oakland or Richmond.
Cop in America doing a bad job, again
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Had an office in Richmond for a couple of years, worked for a huge wine & spirits distributor, warehouse was right next to the country club. We had 24 hour armed security with a gated entrance. Never saw such before or since.
It hasn't improved. I caught a train there last year and felt like I was in an old Wild West town. Eventually the entire East Bay will become gentrified so look for bargains in Richmond.
This was in 1998 / 1999, I can only imagine how further entrenched everything is now.
Lived on Potrero Hill in SF, it was like getting across the DMZ when we would leave Richmond & get back to the city.
Point Richmond was the start of that process, or maybe it was a throwback to a previous time. I still think parts of Richmond are too dodgy to take a risk on but you can definitely see the changes that have taken place in the last 10 years.
Had a fun little pursuit that went all the way to Oakland. Bunch of kids that were breaking into cars. Went to a few protests there too, always a swell place.
Got pulled over when I was off duty by a Vallejo PD officer once. He was a dick until he found out I was CHP and then he was chill.
interesting you bring up point Richmond. I am just about done reading a book by Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us, in which she spends a chapter exploring the genesis of Richmond and Pt Richmond. Interesting, if somewhat difficult (emotionally) read.
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Written by a former cop in a “major metro area of California” and a really good article.
https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
Written by a former cop in a “major metro area of California” and a really good article.
https://medium.com/@OfcrACab/confessions-of-a-former-bastard-cop-bb14d17bc759
That’s an amazing, chilling article.
Glad it was written so recently.
So many things stated in there have been echoed in here & in society. The potential answers to much of the issue are pretty clear. It’s past time to try them.
Oh man, have you been back to Portrero recently? Absolutely transformed into one of the best bits of the city to live, particularly if you commute down which most do. Dogpatch was my area when I was there, like mini-Brooklyn.
Not in years, unfortunately.
My two best friends from college & I lived in a 3/2 house on 23rd. Street for $1500 / mo. total, all hardwood, two outdoor decks, backyard, picture windows facing the Mission, stained glass fixtures installed by one of Janis Joplin’s lesbian lovers, landlord was a pot grower who had a hydroponic set up under the house on the bedrock, that’s what kept the rent low. Kine bud anytime we wanted, growing underneath our feet.
The absolute best place I have ever lived. We had Om Records DJs come over & spin on Sundays on our decks after we left 1015 Folsom & the End Up. Worked for a large wine distributor selling in downtown SF, all the wine & spirits we ever needed. Just a complete bacchanal the entire two years I lived there.
Great times.
Wait, I think I have seen this movie on Cinemax.
There were cameras at some of the Sunday parties.
Amazing, will always love having had an SF chapter. As soon as kids enter the fray, gotta move though. Creepy how few children there are in that city!
Very true.
Oh man, this brings back memories of partying in the Bay Area in the late 90s and early 2000s. The End Up, greatest name for an after-hours venue because everyone would literally end up there at some point after a weekend of partying
Did you know Home Base?
Real eye opener, and a lot of it does kind of ring true but of course I have never lived in America, but it did remind me of a friend I had back in the late 1980s who had been a policeman in Kent in the UK. It was all he'd ever wanted to do growing up but he left after two years and when he talked about why it was quite harrowing. He'd been a part of a group of officers sent to Nottinghamshire and then South Yorkshire during the Miner's Strikes and coming back he'd handed in his resignation. Mostly he would say that the Police weren't what we thought they were. The Police during the strikes hadn't just attended mine operations and lined up against miners, the Police had actively gone into the communities in force and invented offences, arrested strikers, planted evidence and intimidated families. Some officers had done even worse and there was no-one to stop them.
Is this a person? If so, doesn’t ring a clear bell.Oh man, this brings back memories of partying in the Bay Area in the late 90s and early 2000s. The End Up, greatest name for an after-hours venue because everyone would literally end up there at some point after a weekend of partying
Did you know Home Base?
LA County Sheriff's Department has a massive issue with police gangs. There was even an 18 year old security guard murdered last summer when police responded to an alarm at his place of business and started shooting - alleged by at least one other cop he was shot by a trigger happy cop, hoping to kill on duty so he could earn a tattoo to join his station's 'gang'.
Rampart scandals forced change at lapd with the federal consent decree. The sheriffs up until recently are one of the few remaining “old school” departments where change has been slow. But it’s definitely changing now with the numerous scandals of their own.
Never heard much about CHP, so I am going to guess your biggest controversy would have been the number of harassment claims against Ponch.
Chp would be skizzo
Crap. Sorry.
We’re just all the same to you aren’t we?
All boots taste the same.
Seems like we are all the same to y’all as well!
Duh
@WI_Red CHP does have a few big incidents that occurred though
You can see how we can get confused...
You can see how we can get confused...
clearly different departments there though with the grass and the mud
Ponch would still would have had a war and peace sized file filled with harassment claims though
Best part of half days as a kid was the 3 hour Nirvana that was CHiPs, A-Team, and Airwolf. Those were the days,
Ponch would still would have had a war and peace sized file filled with harassment claims though
Best part of half days as a kid was the 3 hour Nirvana that was CHiPs, A-Team, and Airwolf. Those were the days,
True, he might still have drawn all the attention.
Ill PM you in regards to the other stuff if you’re interested
My partner is Hispanic, so I’ll let you decide.
Id post our buddy pics up here if it wasn’t the worst idea ever.
I am actually, especially anything that happened in the South Bay area as I grew up in Torrance.
Edit: and lived right next to the 405. We even saw OJ drive by in his white bronco
Thank you for posting that. Outstanding and horrific article.
Blue Thunder & Knight Rider were also top notch.Ponch would still would have had a war and peace sized file filled with harassment claims though
Best part of half days as a kid was the 3 hour Nirvana that was CHiPs, A-Team, and Airwolf. Those were the days,
Come on. What’s the downside?