It was literally an open mic with only two of the original police community advisory group members present to hear Palo Alto Police Chief Dennis Burns outline its future role. The police advisory group was secretly formed by Chief Dennis Burns with its members handpicked from the community, several being rejected during the interviewing...
Read More »

I could go into great detail on how taser guns do not work as claimed by law enforcement and Taser International and actually often times exacerbate benign situations, but I will save that for another story. Before we address the effectiveness and safety of tasers we should determine if Police Chief Greg Suhr will...
Read More »

By now you know the story about the naked Menlo Park police detective who was arrested in Sunnyvale motel room with a prostitute wearing a catsuit. When I heard about it, I had a good laugh like everybody else. But upon reflection, this story is deeply troubling because two parties — Santa Clara County...
Read More »

WASHINGTON — A police officer can’t pull you over and arrest you just because you gave him the finger, a federal appeals court declared Thursday. In a 14-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that the “ancient gesture of insult is not the basis for a reasonable suspicion of...
Read More »

  Chief Burns, you and Lance Armstrong have a lot in common, how come you can’t come clean like Lance?  What’s holding you back, what do you fear by telling the truth that you helped falsify videos to incriminate a citizen of a crime? “Now things are different. I’m sorry I cheated. I’m sorry...
Read More »

As an elected or appointed official, the prosecutor is the most powerful official in the criminal justice system. Prosecutors exercise unfettered discretion, deciding who to charge with a crime, what charges to file, when to drop the charges, whether or not to plea bargain, and how to allocate prosecutorial resources. In jurisdictions where the...
Read More »

As reported earlier today, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen’s right hand man, Jay Boyarsky  has been found to have engaged in misconduct by 6th District Court of Appeal.  “This is not a case in which the prosecutor, (engaged in a few minor incidents of improper conduct), rather the prosecutor engaged in a...
Read More »

When the unimaginable strikes from nowhere as it occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary, Newtown, Connecticut it’s a sobering reminder how precious life is and how life and families can be changed in a twinkling of an eye. Perhaps we will never learn what prompted this young man, Adam Lanza to take so many innocent...
Read More »

Palo Alto’s Vehicle Habitation Ban on the Hit List of Assemblyman Tom Ammiano’s Homeless Bill of Rights. On June 27, 2012 Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee signed into law the Rhode Island Homeless Bill of Rights. On December 4, 2012 California State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano introduced a California equivalent: AB 5, which is a bill that...
Read More »

Exodus 20:16  “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.” Proverbs 17:15  “He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.” The execution of Perpetua and her companions took place in the ‘Circus’, that is, in the public arena, for the entertainment...
Read More »