- Great article by Carol Rock at KHTS on the Sheriff’s Station new Crime Prevention Unit, which, if you’re cynical like me, you thought was just a fancy title for traditional police operations. But you’d be wrong: the CPU uses some advanced tech that mashes up criminal records, Google maps, and spit out relevant data to mobile devices in patrol cars. The unit has also divided the SCV into several security zones. Deputy Harris tells Rock that the Sheriff’s Station is “shifting from community relations to crime prevention.” KHTS
- But all that high tech still hasn’t helped us solve the numerous unsolved murders in the SCV; for that, we still have to depend on homicide detectives in downtown LA
- Bob Haueter -deputy chief of staff to Buck McKeon, campaign manager for Patricia McKeon, and one of the guys behind the second Republican club in the SCV- tells that Jim Holt of the Signal that all the recent debate among local conservatives is healthy, and that eventually, everyone will pull together behind the GOP nominee, even if its Romney. The article also notes that Haueter’s former group, the California Republican Assembly, is headed by David Gauny now and has 130+ members, while the new group only has 40 members. So why didn’t the Signal talk to David Gauny since he seems to represent more local Republicans than Haueter does? Also why didn’t Holt ask Haueter why those 40 Republicans decided to take their ball and go home rather than work under Gauny? SIGNAL
- Candidates for COC Board held a discussion forum Wednesday at COC in front of 40 students, administrators and faculty members. One interesting fact: by 2018, the state projects that COC will have 37,000 students, but that’s going to be tough to reach if the state doesn’t get it its act together. Also, Diana Shaw, one of the candidates, made a swipe at SCV politicians saying that if she was elected, she’d walk around campus and talk to students more and spend less time at galas and dinners around town SIGNAL
- SEIU blog thanks public library supporters in Santa Clarita and elsewhere for helping to pass AB 438, the state bill that regulates how cities can outsource library services to private companies BLOG
- The Lombardi land under dispute near the proposed Castaic High site was auctioned off yesterday for $800,000, nearly half of what was owed on it SIGNAL
- Happy ending for a stray horse that was found wandering around Lancaster recently KHTS
- A computer that malfunctioned in Canyon Country may have started a fire that caused $20,000 of damage to a house SIGNAL
- More Petz commentary on Occupy SCV: It just seems wrong to organize a #occupuanything event, but it is so Santa Clarita. Free tuition folks over here-Global Warming nuts over there, big bank bashers by the playground, free love hippies in the olive tree grove ….food modification people by the Kogi truck ….at 2 o’clock Carol Lutness will talk about campaign finance reform…….Jonathan Kraut will lead us in meditation at 3……..We will start and end on time….speakers are limited to three minutes….You can do better than this. FACEBOOK
- Interesting TIME RANGER this week. Did you know the SCV once had a There Will Be Blood-style oil blowout? WRB
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I had the privilege of doing the branding identity for Sgt. Harris’ Crime Prevention Unit… He is really a great guy in our community. I am happy he ran with the theme almost verbatim, brought a tear to my eye
You’re such a little girl :*) lol
After a quiet summer in the Northbridge area there has been a beginning of some grafitti, and last weekend vandalism in terms of broken paseo fence rails an irrigation control box yanked out of the ground. The Sherriff quickly responded to my report on the vandalism. I loved Carol Rocks report in light of this. Hopefully the new system will allow the perps of this activity to be caught much sooner before more damage occurs. Kudos to Chief Becker, Deputy Harris, and the SCV Sherrifs Dept.
I thought Chief Becker was the Santa Clarita Chief. Is the City paying him to patrol the west side of I-5, or is the County finally doing the right thing?
Does the county ever do the right thing?
*Becker is the Santa Clarita Station Captain, as we don’t have a police department.
Thanks for the clarification. Captain Becker.
Becker is Captain at the Sheriff’s station. He is also Chief of Police for our city. The city does not pay for patrols on the west side of I-5. There are specific cars that are ‘county cars’ and are assigned solely to the unincorporated areas. You will notice these black and whites will not have the Santa Clarita (Looney Toons) logo on the side of the cars.
City cars can go into the county area to assist and vice versa, but only in an emergency.
So why is he dabbling in Stevenson Ranch? I don’t think we have annexed that area yet.
The county gets what they pay for.
The SCV Station serves more than the City of Santa Clarita. The unincorporated areas are staffed with so many deputies, and the city is staffed with another amount. They share space.
One of the HOAs in SR actually pays (or they used to… think they still do) the County for an extra deputy to patrol in their area as well.
Thanks for clarification
I heard they’re shutting down major crimes. Lester will land on his feet, but McNulty? That’s another story.
In the end they both took a walk…
Reading the bizarre Haueter piece (I am still scratching my head as to what the purpose was) I just kept thinking about Life of Brian (“The Judean People’s Front” “The People’s Front of Judea”)
Did I read it right when he said it would be great to even have more splinter Republican clubs?
Dave Gauny’s favorite Public Enemy song is “Fight the Haueter”
“McKeon was a hero to most but he never meant spit to me, a straight up Mormon the sucka was bought, simple and plain….”
mf him and Bob H
Exactly 3% of the readers will get this joke
Is there something I don’t know about? How angry will I be once I hear it?
oh my
…and yet the Smug ratio is off the charts
not being smug, just young(er)
“not being smug, just young(er)”
Or older. Some of us still in our twenties also missed the reference.
You were five years old! No excuse.
Really Mike? Younger you think? or just plain rude?
No, not in the least. You said I was being smug, but I was just explaining my “3%” comment was because for most of the readers here, the reference was after their time.
If you drive a Prius then odds are you’re being smug. just sayin.
I’ve always wondered if Flavor Flav ever had any idea what he was saying, or if he just repeated what he was told? Chuck D comes across as someone with a lot of intelligence, but Flavor is a fricking cartoon…
Flav was the best hype man in the business lol
I don’t think he used the word “splinter.” And the article didn’t name all the local Republican groups.
Tim
I thought the story was particularly interesting since Bob Haueter has continuously stated he is NOT a member of the GSCVRA and is STILL a member of the SCVRA.
I wonder when that changed?
On COC: it’s nice to see the other candidates at least show up to the forum. I never understand the people who run and decline the free exposure. Why bother?
Incumbents will trounce on election day, I’m sure. But still.
They did change the meeting room without public announcement, so Room 137 was locked when I arrived.
Did you find it eventually? How was it?
I gave up because the students looked at me as if they were ready to call security.
You should’ve said “Hi! I’m Steve Petzold! I know you are 28 but have you ever thought of moving out of your mom and dads house and invested in your own home?”
*investing
Why didn’t the Hart District buy the Lombardi property? Wouldn’t it have cost less than the current proposed site?
This has been hashed out for years (access, drainage, oak trees, if I remember correctly, but it’s been a long time).
Time to move on.
Okay, an inferior it is.
An Inferior site.
And expensive too!
There is what a private buyer will pay at auction and what a public entity will pay. There is sometimes very little similarity between the two.
Especially when someone on the City Council is the real estate broker involved…..
Since the City and the School District are two separate, distinct governmental entities, I see no conflict in that representation. Furthermore, the property isn’t even located in the City.
Only that both are run poorly? The WSH school district covers the entire valley, right?
Because these groups always want to pay their friends top dollar, that’s why.
Look at the city and the travesty of the new downtown. Rather than wait a month for 2 properties to go to a foreclosure auction, they bought them and paid the asking prices which were over $1M each!!! Who in their right mind does this?
“We are the 99% and we need to open our eyes to what’s really going on around the world. We are all in this together.
Description Occupy Santa Clarita is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic to achieve our ends and encourage the use of nonviolence to maximize the safety of all participants.”
The more Petz reads about this group the more disturbing it is. We can all agree that they need to open their eyes , because they are blind to the violence of the Arab Spring. Do they realize that the AS started with a street vendor igniting himself in public because the government threatened his livelihood? These occupy “meatheads sit on their asses as the town of Sirt is bombed. What happened to the protection of civilians President Obama ? OSC open your eyes and put aside your self importance. Stay home and watch some football.
So a street vendor who sets HIMSELF on fire is indicative of a violent movement? Seriously? If anything it is reminiscent of the Buddhist monks during Vietnam who were trying to draw attention to the fact that the war was becoming out of control on both sides. 99% of the violence that occurred during the “Arab Spring” came at the hands of the anti-Democracy dictators who were supported for too long by a multitude of Administrations. But you and so many others are too quick to associate all those protests to some “Muslim Brotherhood” or Al Qaeda conspiracy. It’s starting to sound a tad bit conspiracy theorist and similar to the Illuminati and Masons wanting to control the world. Continue to chase a boogeyman and not address the real problems and we will continue in a cycle that perpetually repeats itself. Even Charlie Wilson understood this…….
Everyone in a community of people needs symbols… Petz fights for dead ideology they fight for there future in America. I find it odd that conservatives are so threatened by such a non-threatening group of people. What happen to home of the brave?
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