6/22/09

Bits & Pieces 06/22/09

Independent: Gang Prevention Effort Off to Slow Start

"....youth violence reached a 14-year high a couple years ago. Gang related offenses during the first four months of 2008 were up 78 percent over the same period a year prior. Broken down, that figure includes a 100 percent increase in attempted murders, a 200 percent increase in brandishing a weapon, and 175 percent in assault with a deadly weapon. Of great concern to the officers writing the grant application was the surge in gang participation among females and elementary school age students...."

SM Times: CEO selected for SB County retirement fund
"While two separate boards hold the reins of Santa Barbara County’s runaway retirement fund, a recently hired administrator and his staff will hold quite a bit of persuasion in the following years.

Vincent Brown previously held high-level positions with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state Department of Finance and the California State Controller...."

LA Times: San Francisco D.A.'s program trained illegal immigrants
This is a scary article and voters should be enraged at the people who run the Back On Track program.
As she runs for state attorney general, prosecutor Kamala Harris faces questions over a program that trained illegal immigrant drug felons for jobs, kept them out of jail and expunged their records.

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