Police harassment, Chula Vista style

Recently, the Chula Vista, California Police Department ran an e-mail forum with the local community (a question and answer exchange) with the topic being, "Community Policing." One of the civilian e-mail participants posed the following question:


"I would like to know how it is possible for police officers to
continually harass people and get away with it?"


From the "other side" (the law enforcement side) Sgt. Bennett, obviously a cop with a sense of humor replied:


"First of all, let me tell you this...it's not easy. In Chula Vista, we average one cop for every 600 people.


Only about 60% of those cops are on general duty (or what you might refer to as "patrol") where we do most of our harassing. The rest are in non-harassing departments that do not allow them contact with the day to day innocents.


At any given moment, only one-fifth of the 60% patrollers are on duty and available for harassing people while the rest are off duty.


So roughly, one cop is responsible for harassing about 5,000 residents.


When you toss in the commercial business, and tourist locations that attract people from other areas, sometimes you have a situation where a single cop is responsible for harassing 10,000 or more people a day.


Now, your average ten-hour shift runs 36,000 seconds long. This gives a cop one second to harass a person, and then only three-fourths of a second to eat a donut AND then find a new person to harass.


This is not an easy task. To be honest, most cops are not up to this challenge day in and day out. It is just too tiring.


What we do is utilize some tools to help us narrow down those people which we can realistically harass.


The tools available to us are as follow:


PHONE: People will call us up and point out things that cause us to focus on a person for special harassment.


"My neighbor is beating his wife" is a code phrase used often. This means we'll come out and give somebody some special harassment.


Another popular one: "There's a guy breaking into a house." The harassment team is then put into action.


CARS: We have special cops assigned to harass people who drive. They like to harass the drivers of fast cars, cars with no insurance or no driver's licenses and the like.


It's lots of fun when you pick them out of traffic for nothing more obvious than running a red light.


Sometimes you get to really heap the harassment on when you find they have drugs in the car, they are drunk, or have an outstanding warrant on file.


RUNNERS: Some people take off running just at the sight of a police officer. Nothing is quite as satisfying as running after them like a beagle on the scent of a bunny. When you catch them you can harass them for hours to determine why they didn't want to talk to us.


STATUTES: When we don't have PHONES or CARS and have nothing better to do, there are actually books that give us ideas for reasons to harass folks. They are called "Statutes"; Criminal Codes, Motor Vehicle Codes, etc...They all spell out all sorts of things for which you can really mess with people.


After you read the statute, you can just drive around for a while until you find someone violating one of these listed offenses and harass them.


Just last week I saw a guy trying to steal a car. Well, there's this book we have that says that's not allowed. That meant I got permission to harass this guy. It's a really cool system that we've set up, and it works pretty well.


We seem to have a never-ending supply of folks to harass. And we get away with it. Why? Because for the good citizens who pay the tab, we try to keep the streets safe for them, and they pay us to "harass" some people.


Next time you are in my town, give me the old "single finger wave." That's another one of those codes. It means, "You can't harass me." It's one of our favorites.


Hopefully sir, this has clarified to you a little bit better how we harass the good citizens of Chula Vista.

Something to consider if you are thinking of voting fo Warren or Sanders

How employer can beat Obamacare

Large employers must provide health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare. Some large employers would rather not do this and are looking for an out. Well I have one for them. Section 1312 (f)(3) of the ACA reads:


"Access limited to lawful residents. If an individual is not, or is not reasonably expected to be for the entire period for which enrollment is sought, a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully present in the United States, the individual shall not be treated as a qualified individual and may not be covered under a qualified health plan in the individual market that is offered through an Exchange.“


As we all know President Obama’s executive order grants amnesty to illegal aliens so that if only illegal aliens are hired the employers are not breaking the law and if a large employer does not wish to provide coverage, all he needs to do is hire illegal aliens.


Problem solved.

From the Manitoba Herald:

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal immigration. The Republicans winning the Senate is prompting an exodus among left-leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray, and live according to the Constitution.

Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, global warming activists, and "green" energy proponents crossing their fields at night.

"I went out to milk the cows the other day, and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said Southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose acreage borders North Dakota . “The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free-range chicken. When I said I didn't have any, he left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"

In an effort to stop the illegal aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them. He then installed loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the fields, but they just keep coming.

Officials are particularly concerned about smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, pack them into electric cars and drive them across the border where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the battery dies.

"A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley cabernet, though, and some kale chips."

When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly that they fear retribution from conservatives. Rumors have been circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and study the Constitution.

In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a half- dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney
to prove that they were alive in the '50s. "If they can't identify the accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age," an official said.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic-broccoli shortage, buying up all the Barbara Streisand c.d.'s, and renting all the Michael Moore movies. "I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many art-history majors does one country need?"

Trying to reassure his liberal base and get them to return to the U.S., President Obama reiterated what he said in his press conference following the beating the democrats took in the last election: "I heard from the 1/3 of the electorate that voted, but I also heard from the 2/3 that did not vote." Who knew the president was clairvoyant?

He also said the reason the democrats got their asses whipped wasn't because of HIS policies, but rather because the dems did not get his message out to the people. Ya gotta love a guy that takes responsibility when something goes wrong.

Obama was right

"The problem is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in ... the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents - #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back - $30,000 for every man, woman and child.  That's irresponsible.  It's unpatriotic."
- Barack Obama, July 3, 2008

Obama was right #2

"I take the Constitution very seriously… The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the Executive Branch and not go through Congress at all, and that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m President of the United States of America.”

– Barack Obama 2008

Obama was right #3

"If in fact I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress than I would do so. But we’re a nation of laws. That’s part of our tradition. The easy way out is to try to yell and pretend I can do something by violating our laws. And what I’m proposing is the harder path, which is to use our democratic processes to achieve the same goal as you want to achieve. But it won’t be as easy as just shouting. It requires us lobbying and getting it done.”

– Barack Obama November 25, 2013

Obama was right #4

"The number of immigrants added to the labor force every year is of a magnitude not seen in this country for over a century. If this huge influx of mostly low-skill workers provides some benefits to the economy as a whole — especially by keeping our workforce young, in contrast to an increasingly geriatric Europe and Japan—it also threatens to depress further the wages of blue-collar Americans and put strains on an already overburdened safety net.”

– Barack Obama “The Audacity of Hope” 2006

People and government

Real reason why Keystone isn't being approved

Gun control

In 1865 a Democrat shot and killed Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

In 1881 a left wing radical Democrat shot James Garfield, President of the United States who later died from the wound.

In 1963 a radical left wing socialist shot and killed John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.

In 1975 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at Gerald Ford, President of the United States.

In 1983 a registered Democrat shot and wounded Ronald Reagan, President of the United States.

In 1984 James Hubert, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 22 people in a McDonalds restaurant.

In 1986 Patrick Sherrill, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 15 people in an Oklahoma post office.

In 1990 James Pough, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 10 people at a GMAC office.

In 1991 George Hennard, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 23 people in a Luby's cafeteria.

In 1995 James Daniel Simpson, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 5 coworkers in a Texas laboratory.

In 1999 Larry Asbrook, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 8 people at a church service.

In 2001 a left wing radical Democrat fired shots at the White House in a failed attempt to kill George W. Bush, President of the US.

In 2003 Douglas Williams, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people at a Lockheed Martin plant.

In 2007 a registered Democrat named Seung - Hui Cho, shot and killed 32 people in Virginia Tech.

In 2010 a mentally ill registered Democrat named Jared Lee Loughner, shot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed 6 others.

In 2011 a registered Democrat named James Holmes, went into a movie theater and shot and killed 12 people.

In 2012 Andrew Engeldinger, a disgruntled Democrat, shot and killed 7 people in Minneapolis.

In 2013 a registered Democrat named Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people in a school.

As recently as Sept 2013, an angry Democrat shot 12 at a Navy ship yard.

One could go on, but you get the point, even if the media does not.

Clearly, there is a problem with Democrats and guns. Not one NRA member, Tea Party member, or Republican conservatives were involved in these shootings and murders.

SOLUTION: It should be illegal for Democrats to own guns.

More Gun Control

A person steals guns, (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), shoots and kills his own mother (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), transports these guns loaded (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), brings guns onto school property (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), breaks into the school (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), discharges the weapons within city limits (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), murders 26 people (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW), and commits suicide (WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW).
And there are people in this country like Bloomberg and his ilk that somehow think passing ANOTHER LAW banning guns would protect us from the crazies. If you haven't noticed, jerks like him only care about fulfilling their own twisted agenda.
The only people that a gun ban law would impact are the LAW ABIDING CITIZENS, which will only serve to cripple the ability to protect ourselves.

Who is really buying elections?

Rank	Organization	Total '89-'14	Dem %	Repub %
155	Vivendi	$6,110,068	60%	33%
154	Andersen	$6,495,970	37%	62%
153	Enron Corp	$6,694,443	28%	71%
152	BP	$7,095,398	30%	69%
151	Bear Stearns	$7,384,173	55%	43%
150	Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp	$7,707,239	31%	67%
149	MCI Inc	$7,794,636	45%	54%
148	Bristol-Myers Squibb	$8,066,807	23%	75%
147	Marine Engineers Beneficial Assn	$8,360,079	73%	25%
146	Interpublic Group	$8,444,370	65%	33%
145	National Cmte for an Effective Congress	$8,519,690	99%	0%
144	Wachovia Corp	$8,678,914	30%	69%
143	Fannie Mae	$9,162,460	53%	46%
142	National Rural Letter Carriers Assn	$9,454,100	72%	27%
141	Archer Daniels Midland	$9,566,617	42%	57%
140	BellSouth Corp	$9,655,156	43%	56%
139	MGM Resorts International	$9,665,592	45%	50%
138	Lehman Brothers	$9,822,659	52%	46%
137	American Council of Life Insurers	$9,854,877	38%	61%
136	Harvard University	$9,876,307	87%	12%
135	Greenberg Traurig LLP	$9,930,536	61%	37%
134	Aircraft Owners & Pilots Assn	$9,931,188	43%	56%
133	National Fedn of Independent Business	$9,962,613	6%	93%
132	Amalgamated Transit Union	$9,977,668	93%	5%
131	Transport Workers Union	$10,035,399	95%	4%
130	Freddie Mac	$10,306,229	43%	55%
129	American Trucking Assns	$10,360,792	27%	72%
128	American Airlines	$10,480,000	43%	56%
127	MBNA Corp	$10,485,363	16%	83%
126	American Physical Therapy Assn	$10,531,223	49%	50%
125	AIG	$10,643,505	49%	50%
124	Seafarers International Union	$10,737,105	83%	16%
123	National Cmte to Preserve Social Security & Medicare	$10,784,676	82%	17%
122	Amway/Alticor Inc	$10,900,413	0%	97%
121	Reynolds American	$11,029,863	25%	74%
120	Skadden, Arps et al	$11,069,137	77%	22%
119	Blackstone Group	$11,092,440	46%	51%
118	UST Inc	$11,117,093	21%	78%
117	Independent Community Bankers of America	$11,213,185	42%	57%
116	Exelon Corp	$11,351,745	41%	57%
115	American Maritime Officers	$11,467,831	46%	53%
114	Ford Motor Co	$11,506,004	39%	59%
113	Associated General Contractors	$11,592,507	14%	85%
112	General Motors	$11,894,599	39%	60%
111	Painters & Allied Trades Union	$11,933,880	85%	12%
110	Eli Lilly & Co	$12,069,205	31%	67%
109	Saban Capital Group	$12,069,872	87%	0%
108	Natl Active & Retired Fed Employees Assn	$12,079,700	77%	21%
107	National Assn of Broadcasters	$12,278,409	44%	55%
106	American Academy of Ophthalmology	$12,524,708	50%	49%
105	United Technologies	$12,554,489	46%	52%
104	News Corp	$12,581,918	59%	39%
103	Human Rights Campaign	$12,828,948	89%	8%
102	American Optometric Assn	$12,850,858	57%	42%
101	MetLife Inc	$12,867,413	51%	48%
100	Securities Industry & Financial Mkt Assn	$12,963,023	40%	59%
99	National Restaurant Assn	$13,155,445	16%	82%
98	Home Depot	$13,606,096	24%	71%
97	Southern Co	$13,838,961	28%	71%
96	WPP Group	$13,843,104	54%	45%
95	Prudential Financial	$13,881,703	49%	50%
94	Associated Builders & Contractors	$14,169,782	1%	98%
93	American Financial Group	$14,174,305	15%	73%
92	American Crystal Sugar	$14,175,955	61%	38%
91	University of California	$14,291,984	89%	9%
90	American Society of Anesthesiologists	$14,506,187	41%	58%
89	American Health Care Assn	$14,565,150	51%	48%
88	Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance	$14,630,629	39%	60%
87	Wells Fargo	$14,763,494	36%	62%
86	Indep Insurance Agents & Brokers/America	$14,794,596	34%	65%
85	Walt Disney Co	$14,806,676	68%	30%
84	Merrill Lynch	$14,965,708	37%	62%
83	GlaxoSmithKline	$15,098,193	30%	69%
82	CSX Corp	$15,469,730	34%	64%
81	DLA Piper	$15,538,424	67%	31%
80	KPMG LLP	$15,867,499	34%	65%
79	Anheuser-Busch	$16,096,913	47%	51%
78	Exxon Mobil	$16,142,553	13%	86%
77	FedEx Corp	$16,214,893	39%	60%
76	Chevron	$16,251,627	19%	65%
75	Wal-Mart Stores	$16,605,441	32%	64%
74	National Cable & Telecommunications Assn	$16,716,260	47%	51%
73	American Institute of CPAs	$16,930,877	40%	58%
72	National Air Traffic Controllers Assn	$16,932,425	77%	21%
71	Akin, Gump et al	$17,581,726	62%	37%
70	General Dynamics	$17,609,269	46%	53%
69	Credit Suisse Group	$17,780,041	41%	57%
68	United Transportation Union	$17,828,450	87%	11%
67	National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn	$18,038,665	46%	53%
66	Ironworkers Union	$18,270,740	92%	6%
65	American Postal Workers Union	$18,389,608	86%	2%
64	New York Life Insurance	$18,542,929	49%	50%
63	Raytheon Co	$18,933,538	43%	56%
62	Club for Growth	$18,982,717	0%	96%
61	Altria Group	$19,179,116	31%	68%
60	Koch Industries	$20,114,783	7%	91%
59	National Rifle Assn	$20,324,107	17%	82%
58	United Steelworkers	$20,328,721	83%	0%
57	Natl Assn/Insurance & Financial Advisors	$20,577,324	41%	58%
56	Pfizer Inc	$20,634,360	35%	64%
55	Air Line Pilots Assn	$20,916,797	82%	17%
54	AFLAC Inc	$20,918,489	43%	56%
53	Union Pacific Corp	$20,962,856	27%	72%
52	Northrop Grumman	$21,578,648	42%	57%
51	Honeywell International	$22,017,104	43%	56%
50	UBS AG	$22,422,520	40%	58%
49	Boeing Co	$22,847,692	46%	53%
48	Comcast Corp	$22,902,327	56%	43%
47	American Dental Assn	$22,957,078	43%	54%
46	Sheet Metal Workers Union	$23,504,328	95%	2%
45	PricewaterhouseCoopers	$23,671,611	35%	64%
44	Time Warner	$23,743,220	73%	25%
43	American Hospital Assn	$24,106,366	52%	47%
42	International Assn of Fire Fighters	$24,133,570	80%	16%
41	Operating Engineers Union	$24,558,314	82%	14%
40	Ernst & Young	$24,953,294	42%	57%
39	Credit Union National Assn	$25,604,205	47%	51%
38	Deloitte LLP	$26,498,863	35%	63%
37	Plumbers & Pipefitters Union	$26,809,680	80%	4%
36	Morgan Stanley	$27,130,084	42%	56%
35	National Assn of Letter Carriers	$27,170,345	85%	9%
34	Verizon Communications	$27,392,403	40%	59%
33	Bank of America	$28,531,927	41%	57%
32	National Assn of Home Builders	$28,846,878	34%	65%
31	Lockheed Martin	$28,881,260	42%	57%
30	General Electric	$29,849,705	47%	52%
29	National Beer Wholesalers Assn	$30,848,960	35%	63%
28	Microsoft Corp	$30,929,164	55%	44%
27	American Medical Assn	$31,301,212	40%	59%
26	Blue Cross/Blue Shield	$31,345,911	36%	63%
25	Newsweb Corp	$32,249,871	31%	0%
24	Machinists & Aerospace Workers Union	$32,613,197	98%	1%
23	EMILY's List	$32,687,361	99%	0%
22	American Bankers Assn	$33,090,521	35%	63%
21	National Auto Dealers Assn	$33,138,860	31%	68%
20	JPMorgan Chase & Co	$33,258,194	47%	51%
19	Citigroup Inc	$33,714,682	48%	50%
18	United Parcel Service	$33,818,562	35%	64%
17	United Food & Commercial Workers Union	$35,593,971	85%	0%
16	AFL-CIO	$35,781,196	55%	2%
15	Teamsters Union	$35,893,117	92%	5%
14	Communications Workers of America	$37,333,779	87%	0%
13	American Federation of Teachers	$37,680,395	91%	0%
12	Service Employees International Union	$40,114,628	83%	2%
11	Laborers Union	$40,140,389	83%	7%
10	United Auto Workers	$42,686,875	72%	0%
9	Carpenters & Joiners Union	$43,671,423	69%	9%
8	American Assn for Justice	$44,709,540	84%	7%
7	Goldman Sachs	$47,062,035	52%	44%
6	Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers	$47,787,464	90%	1%
5	AT&T Inc	$58,928,166	41%	58%
4	National Education Assn	$59,925,783	58%	4%
3	National Assn of Realtors	$61,429,521	38%	41%
2	American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees	$64,403,215	80%	0%
1	ActBlue	$121,185,007	99%	0%

Partisan tilt:

•   Solidly Democrat/Liberal
•   Leans Democrat/Liberal
•   Solidly Republican/Conservative
•   Leans Republican/Conservative
•   On the fence

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Based on data released by the FEC on September 24, 2014.

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