re: #1 Aligarr

Why sugarcoat it ? If the tax revenue is not there , and the cuts down to the police level , may as well tell it like it is .
Didn’t EVERYONES Dad ever tell them , ” there ain’t no free lunch ” ?
I consider what the City Attorney said was a timely and necessarry fair warning . The bad guys are gonna notice the lack of police long before the citizens do .

Even if he had, it wouldn’t matter. San Bernardino got hammer by the housing crisis, and when so much of your property tax base disappears you simply cannot maintain the same level of city services as taxes simply cannot be raised high enough to compensate without triggering an exodus. Thus there’s nothing to be done for folks but to buy a gun and be ready to defend themselves.

But one thing I think should be done is that the local sheriff should announce is that, until adequate numbers of police can once again be deployed, he will issue concealed carry handgun permits on a “shall issue” basis provided that the applicant has taken an approved training class.