Stockton Police Say Don’t Worry Rape is up 20%, it’s “Only Domestic Violence and Prostitutes”. 

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October 18, 2017 Stockton, CA – Despite $90 million in additional funding as a result of sales tax increases, 100 new cops, an Office of Violence Prevention, and the adoption of Ceasefire; violent crime in Stockton has been on a steady increase every year since all of those went into effect. None of those categories that measure violent crime has …

No Water or Money for Parks in Stockton?

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October 17,2017 Stockton, Ca – Wow, the City appears to be sounding the first alarm of bankruptcy this year with rejecting contract bids after only 17 days into the new fiscal year. Bids were rejected for park maintenance, due to lack of funds for public works. The current contract with Odyessey Landscape expires Dec 31, but current estimates for this …

Court Finds San Joaquin Sheriff Steve Moore “Careless and Harmful” in Destroying Evidence and Human Remains of 16 year old Jo Ann Hobson In Speed Freak Serial Killer Case

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By Motecuzoma Sanchez October 13, 2017 San Joaquin County, CA San Joaquin Sheriff Steve Moore found “Careless and Harmful” by District Court for using heavy equipment to dig up remains of 16 yr old Jo Ann Hobson. After a four year legal battle the family has been awarded the right to move forward with litigation.  “San Joaquin Sheriff Steve Moore …

Reinvent the Return On Investment: For Second Meeting in a Row, Tubbs and Andrade Will Vote to Give Tax Dollars to Business Partner from $1.8 to $6.18 Million

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October 3, 2017 Stockton, CA- In a second example of what can best be described as a conflict of interest, Mayor Michael Tubbs and Councilmember Jesus Andrade will again vote on millions of tax dollars to go to business interests they have a relationship with. Last city council meeting both voted on the purchase of 501 W Webber avenue owned …

$25.5 Million Proposed to Buy “as-is” Building by Stockton City Hall Just Two Years Out of Banktuptcy 

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By Ned Leiba, CPA September 11, 2017 Stockton, CA – The City Council will meet Tuesday evening September 19 at 5:30 PM to vote to purchase property and expend additional funds to bring us a new City Hall. The total cost is ostensibly $25 million, but it probably will be much more.    The important missing analysis by city staff …

Mayor Tubbs’ and Chief Jones’ community partners say: “POLICE GOTTA GO” despite working with them. 

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By Frank Gayaldo August 31, 2017 Stockton, CA – Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs recently made national news for suggesting that Stockton may benefit from a violence reduction strategy being utilized in Richmond, California that many critics have dubbed as “Cash for Criminals” a program known as Advance Peace, which pays young men suspected of being involved in fatal shootings to …

System Failure: Hard Truths Exposed about Stockton in Park Shootings While 162 Kids Were at Football Practice

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By Motecuzoma Sanchez and Frank Gayaldo August 28, 2017 Stockton, CA – Last Thursday there were three shootings in the Conway area of south Stockton near the Van Buskirk Golf Course/Community Center. Although, judging from the public police reports you would only know about one.  This was the official Watch Commander report put out by Stockton Police last Thursday, August …

The Stockton Record Remains Complicit on Corruption 

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Opinion Frank Gayaldo August 16, 2017 Fitzgerald and The Record Go Complicit  When it became obvious the Sheriff of the largest county in the United States was corrupt, the Los Angeles Times pulled no punches, providing the most powerful checks and balances to the system as our great nation’s Founding Fathers intended. Thanks to the free press, Former Sheriff Lee …

Trump’s AG Calls Tubbs’ Bluff on Stockton’s Sanctuary City Status.

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By Motecuzoma Sanchez  August 3, 2017 Stockton, CA – Stockton is being targeted by president Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions as one of several cities to lose federal funding to fight crime for being a “sanctuary city” for undocumented immigrants as announced in a new memo for the Justice Department. The catch is- Stockton is not even a “sanctuary city”.  …

Mayor Tubbs Doubles Down on “Cash for Criminals” for Stockton in Community Presentation 

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July 31, 2017 Stockton, CA – At a church this evening Michael Tubbs presented his idea to deal with the city’s high crime, particularly violent crime.  To an audience of about 30, most of whom were city staff or non profits funded by the city who supported Tubbs’ campaign, Advance Peace was presented.  After the first 20 minutes, which was …