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I Do Not Support Defunding The Police. Period!

I am fortunate to have family who serve on The Thin Blue Line. I’ve gone on a few ride-alongs and watched them perform their duties admirably. They risk their lives everyday and I couldn’t be more proud. But you didn’t hear about how well they performed their jobs, because it wasn’t sensational enough to be on the 7 o’clock news. The majority of everyday folk don’t hear about, see, or experience the dangers these brave men and women endure. That’s because the media paints our police officers in the worst kind of light.

The last thing we want to do is defund our law enforcement. They, like many Americans, are over worked, under paid, and under appreciated. Most people don’t realize the lack of funding police officers get, they end up using their own money to get the job done, and never ask for that money to be paid back. It just comes with the territory.

I hear the argument that defunding the police is really about funding other social community programs that can better help our neighborhoods filled with crime. I’m not opposed to that. I’m opposed to using money that would have otherwise gone to the police departments and shift resources over to potentially untested city programs that might otherwise be wasted. The problem is, people are never going to call a social worker to stop a crazed man shooting up a fast food restaurant, or two armed suspects that are strung-out out on flakka. I can go on all day with scenarios, I’ve seen it, but the point is, police are the first on the scene and they are the ones picking up the pieces left behind after a shooting spree.

I do however, support reform. But what in the hell does that look like? Keep in mind, police officers are the ones who have to be a Social Child Psychologist when they have to pick up a child crying over their parent who just got randomly shot by some thug. They have to be stunt drivers in order to catch a kidnapper racing down a highway at disastrous speeds with someone else’s child in that getaway car. They have to pull on their Wyatt Earp skills in the middle of a high school shootout where other teenagers hunker down in hopes they don’t get killed in the crossfire. They have to be E.M.T’s when someone’s grandparent is having a heart attack and the ambulance is 20 minutes out. They have to magically pullout their suicide hot-line capabilities and talk someone down from jumping off a bridge. They have to be crowd control and street lawyers, party poopers and babysitters. And sadly, we expect our officers to become Bruce Lee or Ip Man when they are challenged with people so high on drugs, it would almost appear that those nut jobs have super human strength, but don’t worry, your police officer has it all under control. They have to perform under such duress, we the people expect them to do it all with a smile. Nonsense!

AS GOVERNOR I WOULD PROPOSE A BILL(S) THAT WOULD PROTECT OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT

• Ensure better funding to be allocated out to programs that would increase law enforcement department’s ability to handle multiple types of scenarios during their watch. Not all precincts can match major metropolitan cities that have greater funding to create departments that officers can specialize in.
• Peace officers are executors of the law, not private security. Only a reasonable amount of law enforcement units should be allocated out as security detail to local, state or federal representatives. If more is needed, representatives can hire private bodyguards and as Governor, I will ensure of this.
• A better balance initiative with the needs every city and county requires to maintain their area of civility should be standardized.
• Police academies are only 6 months long. If a medical student has to attend 4 to 10 years of training before they can become an official fellow, a lawyer has to attend up to 7 years before they can practice law, then why not a police officer. We need required extended training by at least another 6 to 9 months, before being granted a badge, a gun, and the power to arrest or perform investigations.
• Extended training should require on the job training in respective fields they have to deal with for a minimum of 1 to 2 month (i.e…EMT, Fire Departments, Social workers, Dispatch, Homeless, Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu/ Hand to Hand Combat, Suicide Hotline, Drug Addiction Programs, Reformed Gang Members Training, etc.)
• As Governor, I will not allow for disciplinary police officers to transfer from precinct to precinct, whether in state or from out of state. Repeat disciplinary police officers bring corruption that stains the honor of the principled who support their oath to the Constitution and the duty to the people.
• To bridge the gap between law enforcement and the public, we need better ‘ride-along’ and ‘a day with police officer’ programs that need to be made available and mandated to the public that are not widely accepted in other districts and counties in California.

Criminals Don’t Care About State or Federal Gun Laws

California already has some of the most aggressive laws regulating the use, selling, and purchasing of guns that undermine the 2nd Amendment. California has implemented a staggering 15 new gun laws in 2020, such as AB 12, AB 1968, and SB 61 to name a few. Most of these are 'Red Flag’ laws that address people who are assumed to be at extreme risk of committing violence towards other people and or themselves. A major problem with these ‘Red Flag’ laws is that they induce a ‘Pre-Crime’ reaction which is un-Constitutional. We don’t arrest people or take away their rights for a crime that hasn’t taken place.

Sadly, these gun laws predominately negatively effect the law biding citizen, not the criminal. Our current gun laws do not address the already thousands of guns floating around on the streets, online dark-web purchases, or the lack of compliancy from gun retailers. Most criminals will buy a gun from the black market, steal the gun, drive it in from another state from where gun laws are less stringent or build a ghost gun, which is ordering parts on-line and piecing it together. These actions alone undermine the state’s efforts to positively enforce effective gun laws in place now.

We need to also be very careful about the words we use in trying to bring measures towards ‘assault weapons’ or ‘assault rifles.’ Please name any assault weapon or assault rifle that wasn’t designed to assault? Ambiguity is the enemy in that phrase. We need to do a better job at preserving our ‘right to bear arms’ and stop the dilution of our 2nd Amendment.

So what protective measures do we take to stop the ‘criminal’ and positively empower the law-abiding citizen?

AS GOVERNOR I WOULD PROPOSE A BILL(S) THAT WILL AFFECT THE CRIMINAL

• Any gun used in a crime, should be charged and held under similar restriction as cyber crimes, 18 U.S.C s 1030(e) They must subject themselves, upon release, to probational computer monitoring, be registered like sex offenders are, and held up to the same type of scrutiny.

• Increase fines, longer community service laboring, and longer sentences for both adults and juveniles convicted of gun crime.

AS GOVERNOR I WOULD PROPOSE A BILL(S) THAT WILL PROTECT LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS

• Become a more ‘Stand Your Ground State.’ Loosen and expand the ‘Castle Law’ to tie into the ‘Good Samaritan Law’ for law-abiding citizens when a self-defense gun action has taken place in their home or on their property, but also to a neighboring home that may be in distress, which should then be handled on a case by case basis.
• Rescind on all Unconstitutional, pre-crime Red Flag Laws.

“The Wind Blows Where It Wishes, And You Hear Its Sound, But You Do Not know Where It Comes From Or Where It Goes.”

Back during my youth, roughly in 1987, there was a hole in the ozone layer and we were not going to be protected by the sun's UV rays. We were all going to burn up and die. That didn’t happen. In 1989, the U.N. scientist predicted that global warming, if not checked would cause coastal cities to be underwater by the year 2000. That didn’t happen. After the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, according to scientists, California should have already had the ‘big one.’ Al Gore predicted in 2007, that by 2013 the Arctic Ocean would be completely ice free. That didn’t happen. At some point in time, we need to stop politicizing science.

The fires that are happening in my district and all over California are not the result of Climate Change! They are the result of poor fiscal policies, our faulty electrical grid, and power companies not being held accountable for their terrible maintenance and trying to pour their millions into renewable energies rather than tending to the back logs on our current infrastructure. They are also the results of horrible forestry mismanagement after a fire has taken place that is not being handled effectively for both state and federal land due to lack of proper funding. Other culprits are serial arsonists that the media refuses to identify as further perpetrators behind the spread of our most disastrous state wild fires and last, but not least, are the environmentalist groups that know very little about forestry and who sue anyone who dare touch or cut down trees.

Summer heat waves are a normal natural occurrence in California during the same time and season every year, which begs the question if natural wild fires or planned wild fires occur to push an agenda. The problem with Governor Gavin Newsom’s grandstanding on Climate Crisis, is that his solutions are not immediate. Even if we jumped on the Green New Deal, or other similar proposals, using renewables and less fossil fuel and lower carbon emissions is not going to put a dent into stopping the fires if climate change is fact in the short-term. Rather than taking responsibility for his failed policies, Gavin points the finger at an invisible culprit that science, clearly gets it wrong on a regular basis. I find it odd that these wild fires have not crossed the boarders into Canada or Mexico. In fact Mexico’s government has dispatched their own firefighters to aid our state. Apparently, climate change hasn’t traveled down south. Not conspiracy, just an observation.

AS GOVERNOR I WOULD PROPOSE A BILL(S) THAT WOULD IMMEDIATELY EFFECT STATE FIRES

• Expand the authority of our United States Forest Services and California Dept. Of Forestry to work in tandem in our state to better cultivate our forests in preparation for fire season and remove special interest and environmentalist groups ability to blockade and sue the USFS and CDOF of forest thinning, dead tree removal, and timber sales.
• Triple the number of incarcerated firefighter inmate programs for increased support and year round seasonal forestry fire preparation cleaning and clearing.
• Incentivize California Firefighter Volunteer Programs by providing business, job, property, and other tax exemptions to those willing to provide their support for a dangerous job where recruitment is struggling to provide new members.
• Increase the distance from electric grid and forestry away from small rural and heavily dense populated areas to not effect housing and businesses prone to wild fires.
• Instead of calling on our military during typical fire season, we need to call on them in a preventative measure before fire season. If we can use our military for humanitarian purposes during non-war times, then we can use them here, right at home during non-fire season times.
• Roll back on environmental policies when dealing with our forest and agriculture that are also prone to fires.
• End GEO Engineering. No more cloud seeding, chemtrailing California skies, or blocking out the sun. Let God’s green earth and its weather take its natural course.