With the above harassment a regular feature of CSO (the Paminator!) Bachtel, the need for citizen oversite of police behavior has never been more needed. So where is the Citizens Police Review Board?

Defunct!! Thanks to former mayor Emily Reilly who barely paused before axing the $70,000/yr program. Since then Reilly and the rest of the council have repeatedly voted funding for the yuppie live/work studios to be built on the old Saltz Leathers site, for the Convention and Vistor's Center which mostly pays, out of public funding, for free advertising for the Seaside Company, and most outrageously advocates spending $17 MILLION to supplement a plan to tear down the West Coast Hotel and build a bigger, better hotel on the spot. To crunch those numbers---- the City will gain an extra $300,000 per year in revenue. That means that we will break even in 57 years!!!

The City has plenty of money to supplement the towns richest folk (e.g. the Del Mar theatre owned by Ron Lau) and to pay nearly a million for the lawsuit from the police harassment of the Blue Lagoon, but can't spend a lousy $70,000 to protect the City and its citizens from unbrideled police abuse.