Following the February 8, 2009 promotion of Patrol Commander David A. Hanczuk, Devonshire Station LAPD Officers started a reign of terror on the streets of Northridge, harassing CSUN students in particular. Everyone is aware that the city is hard up for cash, but this is not the way of doing it. Now you must pay your "bail" before you can even contest a traffic ticket. What happened to innocent until proven guilty? This is anti Sixth Amendment.
Officer Goodyear, Badge no. 27595, and two other motocycle officers jumped the bicycle and pedestrian path at Halstead and Lindley on Wednesday, February 18 to give citations to cyclists, saying they "ran a stop sign". That intersection is only a 2 way stop. The closest stop signs to where the fraudulent tickets issued were a few hundred yards away. Goodyear stated that he was part of a "Bicycle Safety Task Force" assigned to that intersection. Neither he or any other officers were ever there again. They put public safety in peril by jumping on a path where deaf students walk and ride their bicycles to school. They committed vehicular assault.
Goodyear also stated he's been with the force since 1990 and "people always had to pay first". This is indeed untrue.
Officer Welch, a probationary officer with Badge no. 39675, was also caught doing the same thing. She pulled over people because they "ran a stop sign" at the intersection of Zelzah and Simonds. As you can see from the street view on
http://maps.google.com/, Officer Welch would have needed a periscope to see around a giant shrub that is taller than an SUV covering the entire Southeast portion of the intersection. To make matters worse, Welch wrote on one citation-- "Viet" in the box that indicates "Race". Most Americans know that "Viet" is not a race, from filling out forms in kindergarten. If someone is a Vietnamese national, they would not be holding a Californian, ie. American driver's license.
Officer Welch has also not been back at her supposed post at the particular intersection she was "assigned" to patrol in the name of public safety, where she said there had been a deadly accident. No such evidence of a recent accident has been found there. Officer Welch's immediate overseeing supervisor in the squad car did not help her with filling out citations very well apparently. Welch offered information that if you "wave" to her upon actually running a stop sign, then she'd let you go.
Both Officers Welch and Goodyear told people they'd "better go ahead and plead guilty and pay the citations". This is a judge's job to tell citizens. Welch and Goodyear attempted to use coercive power over citizens to up the numbers for their station.
The matter has been taken up with Jim Dillinger of Public Safety at Councilman Grieg Smith's office and Captain Scott VanScoy of the CSUN PD.
Both officers are being investigated by internal affairs.
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A Los Angeles City Public Works sidewalk inspector has been telling people he is a "civil engineer" for Los Angeles. He attempts to rent out a house where he claims to have put in a new main line sewer and new air conditioning- search 8142 Wynne Avenue, Reseda on losangeles.craigslist.org.
Upon checking with LA Building and Safety at 6262 Van Nuys Boulevard, Ray Jadali (Mohammed Jadalizadeh) did not get a sewer permit or a hvac permit. Los Angeles City was notified, but continues to allow one of their employees to be a slumlord. Jadali has told numerous former residents that since he's an engineer, he can inspect the house and finds "nothing wrong", and not to call anyone for help because they won't get any- he is the last word in LA City. Jadali is being investigated by The California State Board of Engineers and Land Surveyors for misrepresentation. He does not have an engineering license of any form.
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Perhaps LA City and LAPD need to screen people more carefully before giving them jobs dealing with helping citizens. New hiring practices policy anyone?
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