Sheriff Baca speaks to the Board of Supervisors...
Sheriff Lee Baca will speak to the Board of Supervisors tomorrow, August 12, 2008 at 11:00 a.m., and to the public about the jail situation at the Los Angeles County Jails.
If you can, please join us tomorrow morning at the Kenneth Hahn, Hall of Administration Building, 500 W. Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012.
The Sheriff will address how Pedro Espinoza and one thousand like him, are released from jail everyday, without their immigration status being checked. In addition, the Probation Department will address how they handle illegal alien juvenile criminals.
We need to hold the Board of Supervisors and others accountable! Please come out and let your voice be heard! Your presence is greatly needed.
Posted by Althea R. Shaw @ 8/11/2008 03:59:00 PM
5 Comments:
I can not attend, but I will be saying a prayer for you guys at that time that the Board gets the message.
God bless,
Chandler
Wow! Good to see at least Baca's head isn't buried in the sand. (or in Antonio's backdoor.) The momentum is on your side now!
Keep up the great work Althea!
Oh yeah...thanks for the heads up Althea. You've really turned into a great blogger!
This is good news -- but Baca's always been more forthcoming that DA Cooley, who avoids all gang summits and discussions with other law enforcement. Yet he has hundreds of investigators assigned to things like this, and they work with Baca's officers in the prisons -- it's the DA, not City Attorney, which is in charge of felonies and working at the County level with Baca's people -- so why doesn't he use his investigators to identify illegal gangbangers while they're in jail? Why not do that and turn them over the ICE for further processing?
Other articles cite sources at the county, state and fed level, including ICE and Homeland Security, that they don't have national databases on illegal felons, so even if they're deported, they just come right back and no one at the border can ID them!
Returning after deportation is supposed to be an extra 20 years in jail right there -- on TOP OF whatever rap sheet they had in the US before. But if Baca has no record of this, nor does the DA, does that become just a joke? With no national database, these felons are happy to just leave the country and can come right back with a new alias, instead of staying in prison. (In San Francisco, for 20 years they were given airplane tickets home to avoid jail, or put in housing in SoCal to aviod jail, which is where Newsom and some of their officials responsible deserve to be.)
Nailing illegal gangmembers and felons while in jail and putting them into a national database is where the big black hole seems to be -- sure, make Bratton clarify SO40, but I'd rather have illegal felons disposed of properly BEFORE they get back out on the streets and become the cops' and our problem, AGAIN.
We don't want cops going upto all of us to demand proof of citizenship, just so the activist organizations won't sue them for profiling only those Latino and black youths who "look" like they might be gangmembers. (I'm sure the Shaws don't want that, either -- black youths already feel they're being more closely scrutinized, and Bratton's LAPD HAS done a lot to make the community see cops as their allies and not their enemies.) I sure don't want this to turn into another erosion of MY freedom to walk the streets without "showing papers" like in fascist or Communist countries.
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