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On September 13, 2012, at approximately 7:10 a.m., the newly formed Livermore Police Department Special Operations Unit (SOU) utilized the East County Tactical Team (SWAT) to serve a narcotics related search warrant at 1068 Coronado Way in the City of Livermore. As a result of the search warrant, the LPD SOU took 6 persons into custody on various charges ranging from narcotics offenses to resisting arrest. Two of the arrestee’s are suspected Norteno gang members. Additionally, two firearms were recovered from the residence.
This incident is part of an ongoing investigation and for that reason we are unable to provide any further information; however, we wish the citizens of Livermore to know that the Special Operations Unit has been in existence for a little over a month and is actively involved in pursuing both narcotics and gang related complaints. If you wish to provide information concerning these types of criminal activity, please leave a message with the LPD Narcotics Tip line at 925-371-4780. Please provide as much information as possible to include: license plate numbers / vehicle description, residence addresses / descriptions, suspect information, and a call back number. Callers may remain anonymous, but by doing so, it should be understood that solving problems becomes more difficult. Please do not use this number to report crimes in progress, emergencies, or when you require a patrol officer response.
The Livermore Police Department would like citizens to remain vigilant of their surroundings. We ask that you contact the police department if you see suspicious persons or activities in your neighborhood (non-emergency 925-371-4987 / Emergency 911).
safety of our businesses and families. Just because you dont get it doesnt mean it is not happening. Some of us do and we are reporting.
Warsaw Ghetto, perhaps? Where a group of people were rounded up because of their religious beliefs and forced to live there? Inner-city ghetto, perhaps? Where because those people that could afford to leave a city after something voilent like a riot, left for somewhere else like the suburbs? Does "ghetto" have another meaning, here? Perhaps something more sinister and even either "hate-based" or "race-based"? Sorry, but the term "ghetto", here does not have as much meaning as another phrase bandied about in these postings like "the Oaklandization of Livermore". And talking in some sort of "code" like that leads to so much misunderstanding and misinterpretation.
Add to it a little bit of "fear-mongering", too, like "we don't want these animals out here diminishing the quality of our life", even here on Junction Avenue in north Livermore. Sorry, but I'm not buying what's being sold, here. For the record, I am white, male, and in my mid-40s. I lived in Oakland from 1992 to 2005, first in Adams Point near Lake Merritt and then on Piedmont Avenue. I moved out to Livermore because it was a cheaper cost of living here in 2005 and I was one of the few people around that did not want to buy a home knowing what I knew back then of the California housing market. My job at the time was in Milpitas and despite the Friday afternoon commute back home, it wasn't a bad life. Back in 2005, Livermore pretty much had about the same "diversity" in it that I would find in any city in northern Colorado, especially Loveland, where my mother came from. Seven years later, Livermore still has that "diversity". And along with that "diversity", or perhaps a lack of it, there seems to be this hatred out there of anything "foreign" or even "outside" which to me seems both unfounded and irrational.
I have plenty of diversity in my life. Just not enough money out there these days to partake in all of that at this time. As for "too much free time", you are probably right. Perhaps if you hired me and kept me both employed and occupied, perhaps I wouldn't be so much of a "burr in your saddle". And if you couldn't hire me, perhaps you know of a single woman in her 40s that may just want to put up with my you-know-what and if she keeps me occupied, perhaps I wouldn't be posting here all that often. Just a couple of thoughts.
What about my "Conservative" garbage, would you buy that? Perhaps make it a sale like one will probably expect when the retail version of Windows 8 goes on sale next month, where if you buy the Operating System, the retailer will throw in lots of freebies, which may or may not work with your hardware--"but it's free!". And that quote was actually said to me back in October 2001 when I bought my copy of Windows XP at an Office Depo in Foster City when I told the clerk that I did not want the free stuff and seemed to misunderstand what "no" meant. So if I bundled my "Liberal Garbage" with my "Conservative Garbage", perhaps at a ratio of 2:1, would you buy it? How about if I equalized the ratio? Would that be more appealing. How about if I wrapped it up in a nice little bow for Christmas? Never too early to start your shopping. Might even be cheaper than what you may find at the outlet mall opening up next month.
You may be able to attract just as many flies with honey than you can with the leavings of some animal, but what would you rather be attracting those flies with?
When it comes to bullies, I prefer to stand up to them and see what they are actually made of.
Instead, ignore my posts, scroll on to the next one that you do want to read, find entertaining, or worthy of response. Be civil and respectful. You might just get right back.
1) How are you assuming I am a liberal and do you know what that actually means? 2) Who is the victim we are making? 3) How are livermore gangs tied to oakland gangs? 4) Why do you have to degrade the discussion to petty insults? Don't you have any valid arguments? 5) Why are you attacking people that not only are opposed to gang activity, but are thoughtful enough to address the issue from an educated and conscious standpoint? You really need to check yourself. Your bullshit is contributing and perpetuating the issue. Furthermore, you should take pride in the power of social awareness, rather than just round up a few buzzwords like "liberal" "oakland gangs" and "victimizing" and use them to attack intelligent people that intimidate you.
You need people like me, So you can point the fucking finger & say that's the bad Guy...