Indictments of top S.F. cops dropped

Sacramento Bee ^ | March 12, 2003 | Herbert A. Sample

[farmfriend]

SAN FRANCISCO -- In the latest twist in the drama over alleged police misconduct, the district attorney on Tuesday dropped obstruction of justice charges against the police chief and his second-in-command after determining he couldn't get convictions.

District Attorney Terence Hallinan, at a court hearing to discuss motions in a case that has consumed much of the San Francisco Police Department and city government the past two weeks, said that "in the interest of justice," he was shelving the indictments of Police Chief Earl Sanders and Assistant Chief Alex Fagan Sr.

[farmfriend]

Prior thread:

S.F. blacks split over cop charges

[farmfriend]

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[FreeTally]

Not surprising. Someone got to the DA. I wonder who or what was going to end up in his mailbox if he proceeded?

[davisdoug]

No one needs to get to Hallinan. He is a communist loser who has destroyed all credibility that was left of the DA's office.

[NormsRevenge]

To top it off, Assistant Chief Alex Fagan Sr. has been named acting chief while Sanders is out on "disability" leave.

Father Knows Best.. The Fagan Sr. guy whose cell phone records were in question. The father of the head rabblerouser in the fajita rumble .. Herb Caen would have have seen the irony, I'm shur!

This is typical of:

(a)The sewer city by the sea (or Sodom by some)

(B)Just another day in Baghdad by the Bay

(C)The worse administered, most corrupt city in the country

(D)All of the above

[Ga Rob]

I always thought this story was very comical and very telling. The communist dominance in the democratic party will begin to eat the other members who are not "extreme enough"!! Let the feasting begin!!

[Grampa Dave]

The charges against these two senior cops was printed out and it looked like something my all most 4 year old grand daughter would have done.

Conservative and left wing law experts agreed that they had never seen such trash used for a Grand Jury Indictment.

Apparently they were right.

[Grampa Dave]

Bingo: No one needs to get to Hallinan. He is a communist loser who has destroyed all credibility that was left of the DA's office.

Apparently Hallinan has some embarrasing arrests of him, that he and his fellow left wing lunatics got buried.

[davisdoug]

The funny irony is that the Dirty Harry movies always had Eastwood pitted against the establishment ranging from PC lunacy (before it was PC) all the way to death squad cops. It's all true and has been for many years. I cannot stand to go into SF now. That is a pity since I have been in Kalifornia for 29 years and used to love going there. It is a truly majestic city which has been overrun by CHUD.

[farmfriend]

Any city that elects Brown as mayor deserves what they get.

[farmfriend]

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[Grampa Dave]

I had rather visit a war zone than go into San Francisco, Oakland or Berkley.

[ambrose]

The San Francisco County Republican Party (such that it is) endorsed Willie Brown for mayor. Apparently, Brown's opponent was to the left of Saddam Hussein.

[farmfriend]

That is scarey.

[Grampa Dave]

We have lived in the N. Bay since 1971. We used to love to go San Francisco. We don't go anymore.

Here is a copy of a reply I posted to Farmfriend on this subject. "I had rather visit a war zone than go into San Francisco, Oakland or Berkley."

[NormsRevenge]

From the Mercury News re: homeless, pigeons and druggies invading UN Plaza in SF

Fence to surround United Nations Plaza

LOL... Maybe if they changed the name of the UN Plaza, things would get better by themselves.

Its amazing tourists still come here in droves.

[NormsRevenge]

Posted on Wed, Mar. 12, 2003



Fence to surround United Nations Plaza
By the Mercury News

The United Nations Plaza in San Francisco -- a gathering place for pigeons, a farmer's market and
many homeless people -- will be fenced off because it has become a ``depository of drug
paraphernalia and human waste,'' a city official said Tuesday.

The plaza opens up to the main library in San Francisco and sits close to City Hall.

Mohammed Nuru, the city's deputy director of operations in the Department of Public Works, said,
``We don't have any more resources to deal with an accumulating quantity of trash and garbage
deposited in and around the fountain every day.''

A group of citizens and city officials have been discussing plans for beautifying the plaza and its
fountain. The public is invited to a community meeting at the Tenderloin police station on March 26
to talk about the plaza's future.

[Iris7]

Ah, the "fruits of liberalism" or perhaps "cultural Marxism" but more accurately the simple refusal to distinguish right from wrong - "licentiousness" is the usual English translation of the words used by the ancients to describe our situation.

Machiavelli pointed out that Democracy becomes a bad form of government when the people become licentious. And, of course, it just takes one half of the people plus one.

[B4Ranch]

Why? Haven't you noticed the changes in the San Francisco County Republican Party? Socialism is much stronger than a decade ago.

[harrym]

One ray of hope on the U.N. fountain story was that a local TV station referred to the denizens of the area as "street people", rather than the euphemistic "homeless" label that the PC crowd would prefer because it presents the image of poor, down-on-their-luck folks like you and me as opposed to the alcoholic-drug addict-petty criminals who constitute the bulk of this population.