There wasn’t any huge news to break, but I hadn’t met him yet or seen him address the media, so I went to check him out yesterday. While we wretches of the Fourth Estate waited in the lobby of OPD HQ, on Seventh Street, to be brought up to the conference room, I heard one reporter ask another what the presser was about.

Have you noticed that progressives never like new technology that makes policing more effective? Surveillance cameras, drones, license plate readers—every time a great new tool comes along to fight crime, the wokes denounce it.

Back in 1993, San Diego gun store owner Ross Elvey was bludgeoned to death by two young men. One of them, who was sixteen, was tried as an adult and received a long prison sentence. The other was fifteen. He was tried as a juvenile, which meant he would be freed at the age of 25.

Sheng Thao is now an extension of the Oakland Roots. She’s glued herself so thoroughly to the team that you might be forgiven for thinking she’s on the team.

I walked down to the Oakland Estuary on Saturday, behind the Jack London Aquatic Center, where for most of 2023 I had made friends, or at least acquaintances, with some of the people who were illegally living there in their boats. They were the same people that the media identified as the “Estuary Pirates,” a term I believe the Coast Guard invented.