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Lax customer searches
contribute to jail ODs
Re: “8 fentanyl overdoses reported in February” (Web page B1, March 22).
It is rather unhappy however no marvel that Santa Rita Jail had so many fentanyl overdoses in February. As famous by the 2021-22 Alameda County Civil Grand Jury, controls to guard in opposition to weapons, medication and different contraband being introduced into Santa Rita Jail by workers and administrative guests are weak, putting workers and detainees in danger.
In response to the grand jury, Sheriff Ahern mentioned the kind of search a customer receives relies on who the customer is employed by. The sheriff additionally acknowledged that the workers of Alameda County who're subjected to background checks based mostly on their employment usually are not subjected to an intensive search when getting into the power.
The jail authorities permit this sort of lax safety even after jail staff have been caught bringing unlawful medication into the jail. This should cease instantly.
Subru Bhat
Union Metropolis
Causes abound to cease
Central San charge hike
Oppose Central Contra Costa Sanitation District’s charge enhance; submit a legitimate written protest by April 20.
The proposal mixes two points: 1) permission to extend charges, and a couple of) creation of a brand new decrease charge for accent dwelling items. We should always deliberate these points individually. It is usually suspicious that they want extra funds whereas they will afford to decrease charges for ADUs. Demand publication of a clear accounting abstract.
The proposed charge enhance is unfair. Elevating single-family dwelling charges whereas making a decrease charge for ADUs is an ADU subsidy paid by single-family householders. Why ought to single-family householders residents pay extra to flush?
This proposal would make it cheaper to function an ADU. In case you are in opposition to increasing ADUs, that is another excuse to submit your legitimate written protest.
Matthew Robinson
Orinda
Conservative voices
flourish in media
Re: “Comedian falls properly wanting racism” (Web page A6, April 4).
Douglas Abbott says, “The general public hears little to no conservative voices within the media.”
Actually, Mr. Abbott? Are you not conscious of Fox Information, One America Information, Breitbart, now-deceased Rush Limbaugh, Horn Information, Epoch Occasions, and so on.?
Conservative information far outweighs all progressive information shops.
Robert Pinkos
Pittsburg
Freedom ought to prevail
in gun management debate
Re: “Repeal 2nd Modification to make nation safer” (Web page A6, March 30).
Jim Boots requires the repeal of the Second Modification, however I'm wondering if he realizes what this may require. A repeal would require the approval of a minimum of 38 states. So, it ain’t occurring, my pals.
Now, I do know that there are many folks, particularly round right here, who wish to junk our system as a result of it's so laborious to amend the Structure. However such folks arrogantly presume that they know higher than our founders and, certainly, most People till fairly not too long ago. Our founders believed in restricted authorities, particularly on the federal degree, as a result of they believed in giving the folks as a lot freedom as potential. I, for one, am with them.
Christopher Andrus
Dublin
In U.S., sacred websites for
sale to massive enterprise
On the March 22 entrance web page is a narrative in regards to the dedication of a brand new nationwide monument (“Biden creates nationwide monument in Mojave“) in California. On the identical day in part C is a narrative that the U.S. authorities plans to swap a part of a nationwide monument to 2 mining companies which are integrated in Austria and England (“Apaches inform court docket that copper mine would hurt sacred websites,” Web page C7). That land can also be sacred to Native People.
So evidently nationwide monuments might be turned over to companies anytime big-money companies profit from it. A lot for the spiritual rights of our Native People.
Dorothy Miller
Pittsburg
Liberal insurance policies are
growing crime charge
Publicly out there FBI statistics present a giant surge in crime occurred throughout the Nineteen Sixties after a “extra lenient justice system” got here into vogue. However by the Nineties, public outrage triggered a reversal: extra law enforcement officials have been employed, bail guidelines have been tightened and sentencing tips have been made stricter. Crime charges, particularly for violent crimes, dropped dramatically.
Now, East Bay Occasions readers see tales day by day about freeway shootings, brazen shoplifting, “facet reveals,” burglaries and road robberies. Editorial web page letters usually level to a scarcity of police (nothing discourages legislation enforcement careers like “defund the police”), prosecutors who do little prosecuting, “bail reform” insurance policies letting criminals out on the road shortly after their arrest, altering the names of prisons and early releases of inmates as a result of “our prisons are crowded.”
One wonders how lengthy will it take this time for the residents to appreciate that liberals have led us down this highway earlier than.
Mike Heller
Walnut Creek