Erin SherbertSF Station Writer |
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| | Some members of the San Jose Elections Commission are implying that Councilmember Nora Campos had something to do with the anonymous complaint field against Tom McEnery, which was brushed aside Friday after months of huffing and puffing by Campos and her allies. And staffers in Campos’s office are shocked. (Shocked!) More » |  | | | Even Mayor Chuck Reed himself believes he might have miscalculated community concerns in San Jose’s most recent controversy—the hiring of the newly-hired, just-resigned Independent Police Auditor. Over the weekend, Reed finally confessed that maybe he was wrong about hiring Chris Constantin as the new IPA More » | | | | ACLU walks out of Task Force meeting; Campos attacks Reed's handling of IPA Councilwoman Nora Campos is challenging Mayor Chuck Reed...again. Late Friday, the District 5 councilmember put out a memo containing her own two- cents about how the council should go about filling the position of the Independent Police Auditor. More » | | | | Reed, Campos differ over who knew what when San Jose’s newly named police auditor resigned Monday evening following community reaction to the disclosure that his brother is a San Jose police officer. More » | | | | San Jose City Council unanimously voted to appoint city hall insider Chris Constantin as the city’s new Independent Police Auditor. Constantin currently serves as the Senior Program Performance Auditor in San Jose’s City Auditor’s Office, where he’s overseen recent reviews of police and other public safety programs. More » | | | | San Jose city leaders seem reluctant to confront a mounting controversy—again The Little Saigon debacle demonstrated that, at times, the San Jose City Council isn’t good at confronting controversy. Such is the case with the most recent community uproar over policing tactics. More » | | | | How did the once-popular Rob Davis become the most controversial top cop in recent San Jose history? The disasters tumbled like dominoes. A Taser death, a police shooting, and later a community blowup over allegations that San Jose’s police disproportionately arrest Latinos for public-drunkenness. Concerned that policing practices damaged downtown’s economic health, the downtown association’s head called for a commission to help police better manage nightlife issues. More » | | | | How did the once-popular Rob Davis become the most controversial top cop in recent San Jose history? The disasters tumbled like dominoes. A Taser death, a police shooting, and later a community blowup over allegations that San Jose’s police disproportionately arrest Latinos for public-drunkenness. Concerned that policing practices damaged downtown’s economic health, the downtown association’s head called for a commission to help police better manage nightlife issues.
In the past six months, Rob Davis has lost support, becoming the most controversial San Jose police chief since the department became a modern urban force under Harvard-educated reformer Joseph McNamara three decades ago. More » | | | | There’s been talk that BART campaign leaders are still asking around for donors to their campaign, which came and went in November. It’s true that the “Yes on Measure B” campaign still owes a $30,000 “victory bonus” to the campaign consultants, TBWB Strategies. That’s on top of the whopping $450,000 the consultant was paid during the campaign.
But it’s not a bill that can’t be covered, says Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and BART campaign leader. He brushes off any speculation that the campaign is hitting up new donors to help pay the consultant bonus. More » | |
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