Stats clear: Crime in SB UP in 2007 from 2006

Oh how I hate to see the victims of this or any other city called percentages.
3 more murders (homocides) in our City of San Bernardino, California just in the last couple of days while the Mayor is off patting himself on the back because of a report from the FBI that says crime is supposedly down in the city but - nothing, absolutely nothing about the tears constantly being shed and the brutal fear being lived by the victims of burgularies, car theft, muggings, deaths of the families and friends.
OH, the terrible losses of life! And, the pain of having to go to work knowing that your child or children and or other loved ones may have to come home to a ran shacked house and even find a predator inside waiting for them.
To know that your transportation has been stolen away whether its a new or old family worn out car or so much as a precious bicycle that just can't be replaced at a moments notice!
And, the Mayor is every so very proud of the percentages provided by the FBI!
I am sure the thousands and thosands and thousands of victims in this City of San Bernardino, California are just as happy as they can be to know they are so much better off to be known as low count percentages.. guess it makes them and their families, friends and neighbors so damn much safer, huh? NOT!

RE: SBPD FBI UCR
1. The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for our nation.
2. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics.
3. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States.
4. Other annual publications, such as Hate Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted address specialized facets of crime such as hate crime or the murder and assaults of law enforcement officers respectively.
5. San Bernardino Police Department participates in the UCR Program by sending the data to the FBI in compliance with guidelines set forth in the FBI handbook.
6. Please note, "To ensure these data are uniformly reported, the FBI provides contributing law enforcement agencies with a handbook that explains how to classify and score offenses and provides uniform crime offense definitions. Acknowledging that offense definitions may vary from state to state, the FBI cautions agencies to report offenses not according to local or state statutes but according to those guidelines provided in the handbook. Most agencies make a good faith effort to comply with established guidelines."
7. Further, the FBI states, "It is important for users of UCR data to remember that the FBI's primary objective is to generate a reliable set of crime statistics for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management."
8. Of perhaps most importance in response to the first response to this thread: "Since crime is a sociological phenomenon influenced by a variety of factors, the FBI discourages data users from ranking agencies and using the data as a measurement of law enforcement effectiveness."

All statements made in this post are published by the FBI and readily verifiable at
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/word.htm
Please, take a moment to visit the link and become informed of the truth.

Also, please visit the SBPD online area devoted to FBI UCR Program at
http://www.ci.san-bernardino.ca.us/depts/police_department/crime_statistics/about_ucr_statistics/default.asp

Lastly, please visit the San Bernardino Sun Newspaper’s site displaying the, “Stats Show SB Crime Falling”, article published 8.24.2007 at
http://www.sbsun.com/search/ci_6990050?IADID=Search-www.sbsun.com-www.sbsun.com

It strikes me as most callous and cruel for the first response to this thread to couch digs toward Mayor Morris in language blatantly intent upon eliciting a visceral response instead of addressing the issue in a manner that may be of some help in bringing us closer to resolving more of our problems in a calm and reasoning manner.
Before closing, I pause to remind every reader of the preceding entry to this thread on SBNow Blog with this quote,
“And, the pain of having to go to work knowing that your child or children and or other loved ones may have to come home to a ran shacked house and even find a predator inside waiting for them.”
The benefits to families agreeing to shun this century’s trend toward institutionalized childrearing are many and they expand to benefit all aspects of societal life.
Personal responsibility needs to regain lost ground. If you’ve committed any of many possible mistakes in your life that now have you feeling your only option is to leave your loved ones to come home alone to a burgled or otherwise invaded personal space, protect them! Goodness but this seems to be so obvious as to not require explication.
However, the quoted line above indicates that there are people who need awakening to the reality that they cannot lay responsibility at the foot of the most convenient entity while blithely continuing down the road to perdition.
Here are some universally applicable tips:
1. Practice responsible parenting. This begins before conception by making prudent preparations and considered conscious decisions about when to seek impregnation as an intended extension of a committed union through cultural and theological methods of mutual acceptance. Let no child of yours be a mistake, “Every Child A Wanted Child”. Place your role as a propagator of the species ahead of whatever role you may have at work. Parenting comes first.
2. Live within your means. This means no longer leaving your loved ones to come home to a potentially invaded space - a consequence of voluntary decisions to place making money above their well-being. Budget modestly. Refrain from incurring debt. Avoid mindless materialistic competitiveness with others. If necessary, step down to a more financially realistic home so that one parent may resume the role of parent. At death’s doorstep, we do not regret having invested as much time as possible with our loved ones as we sometimes have seen others reprimanding themselves on the way out for not having focused on The Important Things of Life.
3. Change what you can and accept what you cannot. If you are unskilled or minimally educated, learn a skill and/or resume your education. Soon, your earnings will increase, making it more readily feasible to envision a one-wage-earner household as your own. If you are reading this online, you are capable of earning a sufficient wage to support your family without subsidizing the family budget by placing the amount of the family’s second income as being of more value to you than their safe, secure and well-nurtured childhood.
4. Visit the National Crime Prevention Council at www.ncpc.org for instructions to make your dwelling safer at no or little cost.
5. Get to know at least the neighbors to each side of you. Join or form a Neighborhood Watch Group, contact SBPD for free assistance with this important task.
6. Seek a third party to discuss your situation with, so that can come to understand it is not the fault of Uncle Sam, City of San Bernardino, SBPD, or any other entity’s: You alone are the architect of your own life!
I empathize with those who suffer, too. Life must be long when filled with regrets. If only we’d placed more emphasis on who we were to the real treasures in our lives, our children, instead of focusing on accumulating material and transitory treasures, I could have been home to protect them when the predator invaded our space and took (or scarred) their innocent lives… The pain of people living in those realities is immeasurable to me!
Often, actually every time I pass by the corner there, I remember the little boy mowed down on Mt. View, just south of Highland Avenue. How must his mother feel, knowing Oprah could have waited? Knowing a game of checkers, or completing homework or dinner together may have kept him safe from harm and at home? Knowing it would have been a priceless honor to walk with him, as he ventured all those blocks from home, alone? Knowing his little left bled out in the gutter while Cheetos were munched, soda was gulped, TV blared and the person who was supposed to hold him tight and keep him safe didn’t even have him in mind. I doubt I’ll ever forget him, though I never knew him. He haunts me.
Recently there was outrage that “a young man from a nice family” was gunned down in a grocer’s parking lot. What stood out to me was the mention of an altercation preceding the shooting. We need to teach our children good communication skills by example and by practice. We all travel the same city’s streets and frequent the same city’s shops, but we aren’t all being gunned down. Practice common sense and instill it in the children. Practice common courtesy and engrain it in the children.
So many of the horrific events SBPD and other first-respondents must live with the memories of occur in the middle of the night. Often VoTP letters follow in their wake, asking “Where was the parental supervision”. So far, I haven’t read a response to any of them. Monitor your child’s activities. Know their associates, teammates and classmates. Take the time to establish, list and post the family’s rules – with clearly stated and consistently enforced consequences in the adjoining column. Register for Parent Project, Sr. classes, available in English or Spanish, if you are encountering difficulties in retaining your position of authority.
I could go on & on, but will close with the reminder that many advances in familial situations have taken place thanks to welfare reform. Still, we are living in the age that has the task of being conscientious stewards during the transition period for the remnants of the failed multigenerational welfare family inducing system. If you observe a family in need of intervention, do not hesitate to call. You may remain anonymous, if you wish it so. There are still many youth being left to raise themselves – youth often eventually found dead in a gutter late at night.
Remember, the FBI was unequivocal about crime being “a sociological phenomenon influenced by a variety of factors”. This long post touches on the very smallest tip of that iceberg.
I think the blog would benefit from tips others may have for sharing how to further turn the tide of crime.
Your Friend & Neighbor Supporting Local Community & Personal Betterment in San Bernardino,
Susana Atanasova

Susana Atanasova, thank you! You started off your blog proving exactally my point.. human beings shown as percentages.. by various government offices who in turn are, at this time (beginning) with the Mayor and now you patting each other on the back because of a few human beings... oppppps! EXCUSE me? Percentages.. whew, blew it didn't I?
Just don't want anyone to know we are talking about real people.
Susana Atanasova, thank you for listing all the sites and suggestions about what might be done.
Felt like I'd picked up a pamplet or two down a City Hall.
I did notice you came up with nothing about (victims) parents who are forced to work two or more jobs because of tragic illness in the family, major Businesses have been shut down or totally moved out of the USA and less paying jobs are all that are left in this area, if any. The Elderly are forced to live with so much less because the pensions have be stolen.

The neighborhood watch you want set up ( all over this City) is half way houses or home after home full of illegal aliens - Foxes watching the chicken house - get the local Gang bangers to watch your home.. HEY! These people are already doing the job! Believe me!
Now, I have a suggestion! How about in your neighborhood - we let af few thousand CLIENTS (present drug addicts forced to attend) of the local DRUG COURT - that are unemployed - walk your Neighborhood to protect it from Gang Bangers - Burgulars - Sexual Predators - Murders - Drug Addicts (whoops) - Drug Dealers - Prostitutes - Muggers - Panhandlers - and such..
Now, they're already walking all the neighborhoods.. yup.. allowed to walk these streets all over in the City.. so why not turn them (the masses) loose into your Neighborhood as a faithful Watch Group and you come back and tell us about your sucessful venture.. we'll give ya a year.. go to it! May be that you'll even get an award or two for doing it. Mayor Morris - when he was a Judge - received awards for turning these clients of his loose on the City of San Bernardino, California.

Yep, The rest of us have seen the results before and continue to see victims time and again - been going threw it for at least 20 years!

Susana Atanasova, thank you for listing all the sites and suggestions about what might be done.
Felt like I'd picked up a pamplet or two down a City Hall.
You are welcome, Dave. I do have a tendency to start sounding like the presentations I’ve been making since becoming one of the nation’s first C.O.P. Block Captains, (Area C, Santa Ana), a quarter of a century ago. Still, the suggestions are sound ~ they have been a boon to my life, so I have first-hand knowledge of their efficacy.

I did notice you came up with nothing about (victims) parents who are forced to work two or more jobs because of tragic illness in the family.
There are many options available. As a Serous Papillary Ovarian Cancer THRIVER, I have supported many of my HysterSisters as they grappled with innovative ways to overcome the financial impacts from a sudden and enduring loss of health. The first and biggest change is in housing ~ if you’ve got a Brooklyn bank account, you can’t kick back in Beverly Hills ~ it’s a mathematical certainty. First: reduce the housing costs. Some choose to home school and live as resident managers in apartment complexes, turning the monthly housing outlay into a monthly income. That’s the biggest turnaround I’ve seen. It’s also possible to eat humble pie and move in with family. It may cost your pride, but it won’t cost your financial health on top of everything else. I know of one now deceased gal, Karen (We called her Kittenz) who downsided, then went to resident managering, then, was able to experience her life’s dream of a trip to Alaska before brain mets claimed her. Others can do the same. All it takes is initiative, and that’s FREE. Sometimes, folks feel overwhelmed and benefit from associating with others ~ as I said, my own experiences for the ill are with my online cancer support “family”.
major Businesses have been shut down or totally moved out of the USA and less paying jobs are all that are left in this area, if any.
Before you repeat that statement again as fact, please read this: http://www.sbsun.com/search/ci_7010160?IADID=Search-www.sbsun.com-www.sbsun.com

The Elderly are forced to live with so much less because the pensions have be stolen.
Yes, and our downtown is a mecca for them with high-rise assisted living (subsidized) housing affording them an option so popular that waiting lists exist at ALL the many “retirement options” we have in San Bernardino. The problems arise when people obstinately insist they are going to die of old age in the home the bought to raise their children in. Sentimentality holds no quarter in finance. MANY financial problems trace to illogical/sentimental-based decisions about money matters. LOTS of seniors are living on SSASSI – a federal safety net for the elderly, infirm and blind, as I understand it. As I understand it, this pays a minimum living wage, and bolsters substandard retirement funds so that the retirees are at least receiving this minimal level of assistance ~ in addition to Medicare and other income/age-based benefits ~ and they are doing this living in their own space, in these downtown high-rises built with their special needs in mind. From my perspective, the seniors with issues are causing their own problems by impetuously insisting on remaining in a residence that no longer makes sense to heat, cool and maintain with the brood up and gone ~ a small senior housing unit would suffice. Anyone wanting the luxury – and it is that/not an entitlement to live in their private residence until death by old age should prepare financially for that goal, or accept the consequences of poor planning and move along. Life’s truly too brief to spend it in misery because of a caprice.
Also, there is the Grandparent Program, where a family allows a senior to move in a become “a member of the family”. This is NOT a form of senior “foster care”. More information is available from The San Bernardino County Department of Aging & Adult Services at: http://hss.co.san-bernardino.ca.us/daas/
[The neighborhood watch you want set up ( all over this City) is half way houses or home after home full of illegal aliens - Foxes watching the chicken house - get the local Gang bangers to watch your home.. HEY! These people are already doing the job! Believe me!]
The Neighborhood Watch is a flourishing program throughout San Bernardino, The United States of America and the world. Please contact your local substation and ask to speak with the CSO ( Community Services Officer ) about the assistances afforded to ANY resident seeking to establish a NW in their neighborhood. Please visit National Crime Prevention Council at: www.ncpc.org/topics/neighborhood-watch
In response to the rest of your post:
In November of 1994, Judge Patrick Morris of the Superior Court of San Bernardino County initiated the Drug
Court program in association with the San Bernardino Probation Department and Mental Health Systems, Inc.
(MHS). It is a drug intervention program developed to channel defendants into comprehensive drug treatment and rehabilitation. For further details, please see: http://www.co.san-bernardino.ca.us/brochures/docs/46.pdf

Here are over 200 pages on the privatization of prison systems: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=PPHjqS4vu74C&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=privatization+of+prison+system&ots=NBPXbEM8wL&sig=Jq-U0PGkjSp_9Mkr9cwN9Cp-7vc#PPP1,M1

Here are lots of BOJ Statistics Publications to help you see the whole picture from an impersonal perspective: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm
* [Yep, The rest of us have seen the results before and continue to see victims time and again - been going threw it for at least 20 years! ]
I admire you for helping clean up the dog, and for speaking up about the issues that concern you. Are you working collaboratively with others to effect positive change, yet? With at least 20 years of experience, you may be able to start something on your block and help it spread ~ waves of GOOD from the many countering the waves of bad by the few.
BTW: I am one of that “the rest of us” you mention. I dwell in San Bernardino by choice. I could be on my portion of the family farm, ensconced and writing in the bucolic environs of my youth, but I stay here, doing what I feel I was born to do.
Susana

Susana, I read and then re-read that portion of your statement quote: "From my perspective, the seniors with issues are causing their own problems by impetuously insisting on remaining in a residence that no longer makes sense to heat, cool and maintain with the brood up and gone ~ a small senior housing unit would suffice. Anyone wanting the luxury – and it is that/not an entitlement to live in their private residence until death by old age should prepare financially for that goal, or accept the consequences of poor planning and move along. Life’s truly too brief to spend it in misery because of a caprice."

Susana, that flag better known as *Old Glory*
That flag She's been tattered and that Flag She has been torn ..but.. proudly she waves over this land where she was born.. because many a brave soul has even fought to the grave for this land of the free and this home of the brave..
Yes, Susana! That flag *Old Glory* She has been Tattered and That wonderful Lady *Old Glory* She has been Torn.. and again, I repeat.. Proudly She waves over this land where she was born... because many, many a braves soul have even had to fight to the grave for this land of the free and this home of the brave... And, Susana.. those elderly people you so readly condem and throw out of their own homes and stuff into a box of your choosing have had loved ones (if not their very self) had many a family member fight for that flag and this home of the free and the brave and the freedom to spend those last days of their lives an the last horizons belonging to what ever is their choice in a home as and where they, with their FREEDOM (fought for by many of them and even died for by loved ones) as is and they can see fit to do so.

Enemies of this Nation have talked about how to and have stuffed the less fortunate or the less fit (physically) and even the elderly into ovens, gased them ... or have driven them time and time again out of their homes so the more affluent could have access to their properties.
Susana, you may not be down on the family farm.. but ... but there is a funnnnny..farm.. never mine...whew!!!

I suggest you go live in one of the simplified boxes you want to take the freedom of choice from the individual Ederly who are not fortunate enough to have a family living or living at home with them any longer. And, you give up your freedom of choice that you want them to give up in leaving their home and ***their FREEDOM*** TO LIVE as they choose.

David,
I’m patriotic, too. We stand and place our hands over our hearts ~ and are always encouraging others to do the same ~ at the 66ers games. By “we” I mean the whole family. My heart swells with pride when the children spontaneously encourage people to get up ~ something we feel it is a true shame for anyone able to stand to not do.
Anyway, this isn’t about that.
I am with you that people should be able to live where they want. In America we do ~ God Bless America, Land of The Free and Home of The Brave!
What we were discoursing was my failure to address opportunities for the infirm and elderly and their families, if any. I have done that to the best of my abilities.
I agree with you that in a utopian society we would all have precisely the material benefits we desire, not the material benefits our pocketbooks permit us. Alas, we are not in Utopia, Dave.
In this real world, with these real problems, we have determined these to be today’s real solutions.
They may not be the pinnacle ~ who knows what the future holds? ~ but for now, this is as good as it gets.
Thank God we aren’t in the slums of Calcutta, or Mexico City, or Brazil, or any number of other large and small nations worldwide. Thank God we are in America, and benefiting as best modern day man can claim.
Your Neighbor & Friend,
Susana Atanasova