Here is a copy of a blog written by CJ Barrimond on her many websites about some of the problems plaguing Fresno City. Is it a wonder why the crime rates in this city are so high. Please don't be fooled by some of the reports coming out of Fresno PD's stats, they are doctored for your benefit. Not only are gang members not being fully prosecuted, but other crimes in this city are going up. The scenery is deteriorating and developers are getting away with shoddy work. All because our City Council is not taking the people of their areas into consideration when making some of these decisions. Is it going to take the people of Fresno communities to do the work and send the City a bill for the parts and your labor for them to wake up and take us seriously? Think about these things when you go to the poles to vote for your next Mayor, next City Councilman and when you vote to have the Fresno PD and The Sheriff's Depart. to merge as one. Why burden an already great organization with troubles from the Fresno PD. Our existing city council and Mayor like to blow money outside of this state with their useless travels and yet we have problems here in this city that that money could have been used on to improve on those solutions. We enlist worthless committees to decide whether something is a good deal or bad deal when we need to use that money taking care of our own problems in this city. In this city I suggest to you there is honor among thieves. Look at our city, I am sure there is plenty of money to fix broken sprinklers, trim those trees, fix the sidewalks that have bulges in them, put up stop signs in residential neighborhoods to stop speeders, prosecute gang members accordingly, keep taggers off the streets by holding some of the parents accountable, answer calls for help from the public when called upon to do so instead of sitting at McDonalds and behind other establishments hiding out so as not to have to answer calls because you don't feel like it or because you are having a bs session with your fellow cops. The Mayor needs to change his open door policy to be real open door not just if he feels he can handle the questions and provide solutions. It doesn't take six patrol cars to handle one unarmed suspect of a stolen vehicle and yet we on the streets see it everyday. When a deputy is called for a stolen vehicle they usually have one person and that is all they are going to get. They deal with and do just fine, but a biggest force and more resources at their disposal has to have six vehicles usually with two men each. How lame is that? Maybe there ought to be an outside agency to audit Fresno Police Department, because it is obvious they waste tax payers time and money. A stop sign costs about $100.00 to put in and yet the city council will waste ten times that much deciding whether an area really needs it. First off they don't live in those areas and the people who would know whether they need it are the ones asking for it. Why do you continually second judge your voters? I certainly hope someone in this city gets a wake up call soon. I know I have had mine.
Better Said Now Than Never Said At All
While sitting here I started calculating the days since I notified the City Councilman in my District 1 last week. I have been watching these tree blow in the winds and noticed that nothing has been done to prevent anymore braking of the branches in these beautiful trees. While sitting in the swing in the back yard last night I could hear the water gushing from the broken sprinkler heads. Still no action has been taken to rectify the problems. You would be so surprised at what you can notice and hear while sitting there relaxing. After having a talk with a local politician yesterday, I realized that the people of Fresno, Ca., District 1 have been taken for a ride to hell. When we voted for a Councilman we were given a bill of sour goods. No I did not vote for this person, I knew better than to bite into a sour bill of goods. Now we are all left with a nasty taste in our mouth. Nothing is getting done in our area and the performance of some of the workers is less than acceptable. Just what are the qualifications to be on some of these work crews, because I am not seeing much intelligence.
As for the Mayor of our fine city, Alan Autry was another sour taste left behind. As a proclaimed Christian he opening spoke of the new gay marriage law here in California and I don't know but I was always taught to believe that a true Christian is one who accepts people for who they are, not what they are and that we don't judge others less we be judged. Well I guess you could say I am now judging him, but I am actually judging his performance as a politician. His grade in that area would be a big fat F. No I have not seen any real improve in this city by him. The only thing I have seen this man do is take our tax monies and use it to fly all over this country for supposedly networking. He spends more time away from this city than in it and yet we are supposed to believe in his abilities. What abilities? He has not business judging people or what they are if he is this so called proclaimed Christian. Whether someone of the same sex is married to their true love has nothing to do with how this city is run nor does it have anything to do with his family life. Sure they can raise children just like you and I and they can do almost everything else a man and woman can to as a couple, but that doesn't mean they are not to be afforded a marriage made in heaven. Only God can judge them and I don't see him coming down here with giant bolts of lighting. So where is your real beef Mayor Autry? It is beginning to sound like someone is being a bigot. Double standards is really alive and well in your mind. Tells me more about you than I wanted to know.
The Police Chief in this City named Jerry Dyer is another person on my list of ineffective people. He claims to be rounding up all these gang bangers and putting the brakes on their activities, but what he doesn't tell you is that the courts in this city are so full, and we don't have the manpower to bring even half of them to justice. They might get booked into the jail, but who is going to prosecute them, the kids in this city? There is not enough assistant DAs to do the job. Therefore all those booked into the jail end up getting off and no justice is handed down. Heres another place our Mayor failed us. Three fourths of our Fresno City Police live in Clovis, California and not in the city of Fresno. So that in it self tells me that even our city cops have no faith in our Mayor's abilities. The city cops should be made to live in the area they patrol and get a first hand view of the garbage we as citizen in this city deal with daily. Better yet, maybe Chief Dyer needs to reassess his dispatchers. You as a citizen see a car speeding through your neighborhood and the streets are lined with children and you call the city cops and the dispatcher tells you that unless that speeding car hits a child we are not sending a car out. So we are left to hand out our own justice. Exactly what do those dispatchers do besides sit there and eat non-stop, bs with the other dispatchers and talk about their own misfortunes. I have not had a good rapport with one of those sassy, rude dispatchers yet. If your house is being broken into the dispatcher will tell you that unless they have actually gained entry into your house and are there as we speak we will not send anyone out. This is a synopsis of an actual call to Fresno PD by a family member. If you e-mail the police department don't expect any reply, that is another thing that does not happen there. I have sent numerous e-mails addressed to the Chief of Police and to this date I have never had a response from him or even a representative of the department. The one and only time the Fresno PD ever helped out this district is when we tried to eradicate the graffiti taggers in our area. There was an officer they sent us to discuss the problem and he was like having an angel sent from above. Office Junus Perry took our plight serious and he took action and worked with us and eradicated the taggers and they stayed away for a few years. Once I wrote a letter of thanks to the Police Chief, he was gone. He did too good of a job and they took him from us. Now they are back and if you see them tagging, don't call dispatch because they actually want you to come face to face with the tagger and describe them down to their shorts. Is there a mental defect in those dispatchers or what? What will it take to get these city officials to do a job they sign on for? I was given the advise to keep on blogging them and that is what I will do.
Now after reading this blog you are probably sitting there saying this woman always complains and has nothing good to say about anyone in her city. Well I have lived here in this city going on 20 years and nothing changes here. When I see something good to view and write about I will. No I am not always so disgusted with my life, just the people put in positions to do a job they don't do. If you are a city worker, you should be honored and take great pride in your work. I have a street sweeper that is a blessing. He cleans my gutters so well and I am so proud of him. So why can't the rest of the city workers be like him? Maybe the rest of you should take lessons from him. Maybe the Mayor and the Police Chief should take lesson from the Sheriff. She knows what she is doing and is not unapproachable. Hint Hint. At least when you call the sheriff's department to report a crime, they show up and take the appropriate action on the spot. Fresno PD can't declare a female has been raped until a Sergeant or above say they can and then it is classified as a possible rape. When the sheriff's department takes that kind of call, the officer on the call makes that judgment and it is written as an actual rape not possible, and they don't need a supervisor's approval to write it up. The sheriff's department doesn't pick and choose the call they wish to take either. Fresno PD picks and chooses the calls they wish to take. Don't believe me, listen to the scanners for a week and tell me I am not right. They will let calls sit for hours before taking care of them and some calls are never responded to at all. You say that, that can't be so. Well on the Fourth of July last year and neighbor to my daughter's house lit some fireworks and they were obviously illegal fireworks, jumped and hit the street pavement, jumped again to the roof of her house and came down and burnt my granddaughter. We were all upset and had to immediately run her in and treat the burn. The Fresno PD was called and the incident reported to them, but to this date no one has ever shown up or a report taken by phone. When does my grand daughter get her justice? How many more time does this have to happen before they are held accountable?
With the Mayor you call to make an appointment and he decides whether you get that appointment, in other words if you have a real problem, he can't handle it. The chief of Police like the cameras too much to have private meetings with the general public. The only time he has one is when you threaten lawsuits. Funny. These people worry about their image, yet they forget you are helping make that image.
Wake up Fresno, California, we are not being taken care of as promised, because of the double standards that exist in our city official's offices and because we have real problems they don't know how to deal with and because we don't live next door to these city officials. What does that tell you? Maybe it is time to get people we know can deal with real problems and not sweep them under the carpets and hide their dirty scandals. This city is full of people associated to dirty scandals and majority of them run this city. Isn't it about time we have a corrupt free city and people willing to do their jobs. Here you go our new City motto, "Scandals be with you , only in Fresno."
There are such tings as HUD grants to get these officers to live in our urban areas, but this city doesn't seem to care about protecting it's urban areas in this city or they would have already put in for these grants.
If you live in the urban areas and your fence to a main city street is falling apart, the city will spray over the graffiti, but they won't take responsibility for a double sided fence. You as a home owner take car of the boards on your side and keep your side in great repair, but the city expect you to take care of their side as well. That's not what you were told when you purchased the home, but as you know the city has to watch the spending. New developments go up around you and they install concrete walls and perimeter fences and the wooden fences fall. Take a ride along Clinton between Brawley and Blythe and look at the city's failures. I called about this fence and was told I had to fix that fence where it backs up to Clinton. I suppose next I will be told that I am responsible for fixing the sprinkler heads and the trimming those braking trees, how about the trash and the sidewalks that have large humps because of the tree roots. The street lights, am I going to be held responsible for all of this as well? With the current city official I just might. If that is the case, I will expect more that what I am getting in a City Official. I forgot the city of scandals! Half the shrubbery on that stretch of the road is dying, why? Because the sprinklers are broken. Who is going to fix the problems? Only the people of Fresno can fix these problems, elect someone who is willing to work with you and do their job the right way.
Some of these new politicians running for Mayor want to combine the two law enforcement agencies and that is probably a major mistake, because Fresno PD would not be able to keep up. Not only that they couldn't pick and choose their calls anymore. The dispatcher at PD would have to work for a change, I doubt that would be possible. The people in the sheriff's department really do work, they take pride in the job they do and Fresno PD wouldn't know how to do that, they are too busy covering up their scandals and jokes for personnel.