The unemployed can take some solace in the fact that an entire industry has seen explosive growth since the new sheriff got to town. Investigations, internal and otherwise are at all time highs.
This gets a little confusing and don't count on me to help explain it clearly but it goes something like this. First the Sheriff pissed off a bunch of people all over the place by managing to arrange to have cops drawn down, cop lingo, on other cops.
A whole bunch of people told one story and the Sheriff told several different stories so the DA decided to start an investigation. Not to be outdone, read penis envy, the Sheriff decided to hold his own investigation about the thing and he invited the clearlake chief to help out.
Unfortunately for Francis the Clearlake chief hadn't forgotten about his cops winding up in the OK corral a week earlier so he told Francis to pound sand. Maybe Francis forgot he'd said not too long ago he was going to arrest the Clearlake chief so its not really surprising that guy isn't exactly crawling over broken glass to lend Francis a hand.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... won't get fooled again or something.
That only made Francis madder so he then decided to go ahead and investigate the DA because now he's decided he's a crook too. At least he posted some really snotty press release on nixle calling the DA out and complaining to some state agency.
Anyway I count at least four current investigations on that angle alone and I'm thinking I'll start my own investigative firm so I don't have to spend so much time sitting around in my underwear drinking beer and cruising the local blogs.
That doesn't even count all the other investigations Francis has started on his own management. I'm thinking there has got to be lots of paper floating around and all these guys should be ashamed that they are destroying whole forests.
What in the hell is going on around here?
What in the hell is going on around here?
Background for the un-initiated:
November 2010 saw Francisco Rivero elected on platform of transparency and reform with the help of an indicted pot grower and a character assassination blog. Not quite our proudest day but not as bad as some other days. Actually the jury is still out on this one so stay tuned.
Francisco didn't like anything or anyone remotely associated with the former Sheriff so he set out wiping the slate clean by changing the deputies uniforms, destroying the Office of Emergency Services, firing volunteer reserves, demoting some officers and promoting others, taking away correctional officers guns and coffee then giving them a cartoon badge, unplugging the kitchen at the Lowerlake substation,alienating every other law enforcement agency in this county and those of neighboring Mendocino, picking fights with local government officials and squabbling with the state and the county over courthouse security which it turned out wasn't his call.
And then things got weird.
Background for the un-initiated:
November 2010 saw Francisco Rivero elected on platform of transparency and reform with the help of an indicted pot grower and a character assassination blog. Not quite our proudest day but not as bad as some other days. Actually the jury is still out on this one so stay tuned.
Francisco didn't like anything or anyone remotely associated with the former Sheriff so he set out wiping the slate clean by changing the deputies uniforms, destroying the Office of Emergency Services, firing volunteer reserves, demoting some officers and promoting others, taking away correctional officers guns and coffee then giving them a cartoon badge, unplugging the kitchen at the Lowerlake substation,alienating every other law enforcement agency in this county and those of neighboring Mendocino, picking fights with local government officials and squabbling with the state and the county over courthouse security which it turned out wasn't his call.
And then things got weird.
Saturday, June 4, 2011
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