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Chief of Police Sandra Spagnoli Gets Caught Lying to City Council

Chief of Police Sandra Spagnoli Gets Caught Lying to City Council City Hall, Police 11 Responses »

Sep 052013

But will the Council and City Manager let her get away with it? Tuesday night, San Leandro Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli was caught lying to the San Leandro City Council several times. Two lies are so blatant, that there can be now wiggle room around them. 1 – She told the City Council that the SLPD only has one police car equipped with license plate scanners mounted on them. But as Mike Katz-Lacabe, my husband pointed out, it has 3. He’s taken pictures of them, in case there are any questions. 2- She told the Council that license plate scanners [Continue Reading]

Activists Publish Home Addresses of Oakland Councilmembers

Activists Publish Home Addresses of Oakland Councilmembers City Hall, Police No Responses »

Aug 172013

Should San Leandro Council Members be next? As you know, a couple of weeks ago the Oakland City Council voted to create a “Domain Awareness Center” to pull together the feeds of surveillance and license plate scanners throughout town, so as to be able to track the movements of anyone who goes to Oakland. In other words, they agreed to be the eyes of the NSA on the ground. Now, Oakland activists are tacitly challenging other Oaklanders to give City Council members a taste of their own medicine. They’ve started by publishing the addresses of the Councilmembers. This is public [Continue Reading]

SLPD’s Daft Attempt at Doublespeak and Chief Spagnoli Caught Lying

SLPD’s Daft Attempt at Doublespeak and Chief Spagnoli Caught Lying Media, Police No Responses »

Jul 222013

The San Leandro Police Department should send its press releases directly to The Onion. They don’t even need to be edited. This latest one is a prime example. First of all, has anyone at the SLPD looked up the meaning of the word “proactive” in the dictionary? What exactly is proactive about arresting someone who has committed a crime? “Proactive policing” would mean setting things up so that crimes are not committed in the first place, and that is something that the SLPD certainly is not doing. Crime has gone up significantly since Chief Spagnoli took over in 2011. But [Continue Reading]

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: SLPD Handcuffs Good Samaritan and Ransacks His Home

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: SLPD Handcuffs Good Samaritan and Ransacks His Home Police 3 Responses »

Jul 202013

The following note was left by San Leandro neighbor Tom Kunich as a comment to a previous article on the San Leandro Police Department. I think his story deserves more prominent attention. Ultimately, it’s the story of how the SLPD lost the trust of yet another San Leandro citizen. On Saturday July 6, 2013, I received a doorbell around 8 PM. I opened the door and it was a young Hispanic woman of perhaps 18 or so who asked to use my phone. I was reserved but let her in and let her use my phone making sure to lock [Continue Reading]

SLPD Attempts to Fuel Racial Tensions in San Leandro

SLPD Attempts to Fuel Racial Tensions in San Leandro Police 4 Responses »

Jul 162013

Racial tensions in San Leandro don’t seem to be high enough for Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli. To fuel them, today the San Leandro Police Department issued a press release about a residential robbery, specifying that the suspects were two, young, black males and the victim was a Chinese family. There is no legitimate reason for the race of the victims to be mentioned. Indeed, a quick look through other SLPD press releases on robberies and burglaries shows that while they always mention the race of the suspect, they never mention the race of the victim. There sole exception was a [Continue Reading]

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