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.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

When the going gets weird the weird turn pro

Recently our Sheriff Francis went on the local community radio - idiot point one - and essentially went cracker-dog defending some really super dooper dumb stuff he's recently done and calling everyone who points out his blunders liars or fools.

He named cops, the DA, a local news person and a county Supervisor. Hearing the Sheriff essentially calling a county Supervisor a criminal made for good radio but a few days later we found out the Sheriff hisself was the target of an investigation by the DA over a couple of recent issues.

One basis for investigation is a possible civil rights problem in which the Sheriff had sent deputies racing code 3, whatever that is, to the county line to stop a motorcycle gang from entering the county. Some people say thats a crime, the Sheriff says it isn't because the motorcycle gang they didn't catch was the Hell's Angels.

That remind anyone else of that old saying , or maybe it was a movie line, 'the greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing us he doesn't exist' or something approximating that anyway.

Another problem for the Sheriff happened in the town of Clearlake where the Sheriff decided to execute a black-ops style bust without telling the Clearlake cops who were alerted to a possible home invasion and showed up pointing guns at other cops. Ooops.

The cops that had guns pointed at them and the cops pointing the guns all said it was a bad thing. The Sheriff said it was no big deal.

Then he went on the radio and called them all liars. Generally I don't have a lot of time for such complete assholes but this stuff is really entertaining.

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