Traffic Fines To Homelessness - Feeding CalPERS / Creating Homelessness

A fine to the state takes food from tables of families How many CalPERS employees get $16,000 in fines?

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Tickets CalPERS Members?

Being near the court system, police and different public events over the years I've often noticed the Official Business Card facing the the Drivers license at check out lines or overheard someone boasting they have a friend who is this or that. 

My other tactical move is say hello where all too often learn I'm chatting with a public employee.   In my story longer observation in the court room the most unrepresented person is the public employee. The court room is loaded with persons on welfare, SSI or simple lost their job.  

In the end they're forced choose between food and fines.  The obvious choice is not to starve to death but obvious problem is the fine goes from 300 to in my case nearly $3,000 per ticket.  

You can rest assured this means my life goes nowhere, job options are limited for many and the vast majority of jobs require a license.  

Homeless Courts 

The concept of a homeless court is to give a fresh start on getting past the tickets and fines.  As this portion of the blog grows I'll share the endless stonewalling I endure for tickets, fines, the court and the endless obstacles and other face.

The State Of California has the No-Win Traffic System that has cost Butte County over $500,000 to take care of my sons while down in Contra Costa County the CNET Players and related investigators targeted my clients, offices and friends.

Judge Joel Golub who in early September 2014 decided to appear at the Walnut Creek Library where the Walnut Creek Police were called my questioning is near zero coincidence of sitting on the same row I'm stuck on while still fighting for license ten years later.

Read more about my personal opinion of what Joel knows as he was once my neighbor and whose been killed in out old neighborhood but more important is we both know the same officers who could have been stopped in 2004 not 2011 and with the recent arrest of now former officer Greg Thompson a black women in Richmond would have been avoided.




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UPDATE: WCPD Officer Pleads No Contest to Beating Woman with Baseball Bat in Richmond

A Walnut Creek police officer pleaded no contest

A Walnut Creek police officer pleaded no contest in a Martinez courtroom this afternoon to charges that he donned a mask and beat a woman with a baseball bat in Richmond last month.

Gregory Thompson, a 54-year-old Martinez resident and 30-year Walnut Creek police veteran, entered the no contest pleas in Contra Costa County Superior Court to charges of felony assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, felony vandalism and being armed in the commission of the crimes.

Dressed in a suit and tie, Thompson appeared out of custody next to his attorney in court today, weeks after bailing out of county jail in Richmond following his Aug. 16 arrest.

Thompson refused to answer questions from reporters outside the courtroom this morning and left in a waiting car.

Deputy District Attorney Barry Grove said prosecutors will ask for a one-year county jail sentence for Thompson but that he could face up to five years in state prison. His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 10.

Grove said Thompson went to his father’s vacant home on Clinton Avenue in Richmond in the early morning hours of Aug. 16, knowing that the house had been burglarized recently, according to Grove.

When he saw an unknown woman walking near the home, he believed she was an intruder, donned a ski mask and “he took the law into his own hands and beat her with a baseball bat,” Grove said.

The woman’s car had run out of gas and she was walking in the area when Thompson attacked, prosecutors said.

Richmond police received several reports around 2 a.m. on Aug. 16 of a woman screaming and a man with a bat in the 4000 block of Clinton Avenue.

As officers arrived on the scene, witnesses pointed out Thompson, who was sitting nearby in his parked car. He wasn’t wearing his police uniform or in a patrol car at the time, police said.

Officers approached the suspect and noticed a mask lying on the car’s floorboard. A search of the car turned up a baseball bat, two guns and zip ties, police said.

The victim, who had been hiding in the bushes until police arrived, was taken to a hospital for injuries suffered in the beating and is expected to recover.

Police last month were attempting to locate a second woman who was apparently wounded when she stepped in to try to stop the attack. An off-duty firefighter also witnessed part of the attack, according to Grove.

Thompson, who identified himself as a police officer, was arrested, taken to county jail and released on bail the following day.

Walnut Creek police have said Thompson was put on paid administrative leave soon after his arrest and that the department is conducting its own investigation.

He was working most recently as a patrol officer, according to Walnut Creek police Capt. Mark Perlite.

Walnut Creek police officials were not immediately available this afternoon to comment on Thompson’s employment status.

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