March 8, 2007
Day Around the Bay
-The Bay Bridge will be even costlier and will take longer to build, all due to issues around Yerba Buena Island.
-In an attempt to hold onto the 49ers, San Francisco is asking the Navy to hand over the Hunters Point Shipyard so the city can do an Extreme Makeover on it to get it ready to build a new stadium
-It's going to be a lot harder to recruit and train new cops because the Feds just took away the funding.
-Your protest of the day was by SF prostitutes, protesting a recent police crackdown.
-Oakland also wants to add new cops to patrol the streets and do community policing. Copy cats.
-Massage parlor owner to spend time in prison for money laundering. Insert happy ending joke here.
-Richard Aicardi surrendered to the police and was promptly out on bail from Chico's Bail Bonds.
-Speaking of which, Ken Garcia thinks the charges against Aicardi and Dwyer are much ado about nothing.
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In Ken Garcia's world, young men get what they had coming when they are on the ground being kicked in the face because they "picked the wrong fight". A broken jaw on one side of the altercation (amongst other injuries) vs not a scratch on the other side of the fight is a "cream puff" case. My guess is that this is the same world where raped women got what they had coming because they were wearing a short skirt. And if unjustly attacked, having the means to hire an attorney somehow implies a degree of guilt in having provoked an attack.
Why does anyone print what he writes? More importantly, why do any of us read it?
Remember, some of the families of the "415 crew" are cops or former cops. Is Garcia's "source close to the investigation" also close to one of the families?
Or does Garcia, personally, have a conflict of interest? Why is he riding the case like it's the dog mauling trial?
You cannot trust local commentators to be unbiased -- they have too many ties to the community, and too many possible conflicts of interest.
Assuming KG is just doing his job, what is his job? To comment upon the outrage of the week. He has a valid but banal point about how all the information coming out isn't correct.
As the facts came out, it became obvious he was on the wrong side of this issue. Perhaps his connection to the Catholic high schools' that are obliquely involvemed explains his point of view. He had a similar article recently when students from one of these schools got cited for a MUNI fare pass violation.
Ken Garcia is to be commended for providing counterbalance on this story to the hysterical ranting of Dan Noyes at Channel 7. Methinks this is who he is referring to when he says:
Needless to say the King will be blogging about this at noyespollution.com
I'm going to be seriously pissed if they use my tax money to help out the 49ers. They're a privately-owned, for-profit company and deserve absolutely none of my tax money. Let the people who actually care about football foot the bill.