About

SACPD.com was originally registered as a domain in 1996 to be used as Sacramento Public Disclosure and is not associated with the Sacramento Police Department. After having lived in Sacramento for a number of years I came to two realizations. One is that Sacramento was a great city and wonderful place to live. The other is that there was rampant corruption throughout the local city and county government agencies. This corruption was apparent through almost all city and county offices. From the patrol man on his beat on up to the mayor’s office and county commissioners there was a great abuse of power and privilege. I felt as a citizen it was my duty to do something, anything, about this problem. That is when I registered SACPD.com Because of circumstances and my eventual move from Sacramento to the bay area, this site was never developed in the manor I had intended. Eventually the registration on the domain expired, but I developed a renewed interest in making a public statement about the problems within our government. In early 2000 I reregistered the domain once again. Once more life took over and the domain was sitting idle. It was used as a landing page for other projects until January of 2000, when I decided it was finally time to develop the site. Since the formation of the idea for this project I came to the realization that it is actually the law enforcement agencies that are mostly to blame for the problems within our government. They are the ones that have the power to stop corruption in its tracks and protect us from an ever growing bureaucracy that is out of control. In 2002 I started to bring content online to this site. One of my first projects was calling attention to Jim Hunt, who actually was head of Children Protective Services and headed the Information Technology board for Sacramento County. Now Information Technology was my specialty as I was considered by many to be an expert in the field. Mr. Hunt was making many basic mistakes and putting the county and its citizens at serious risk. I emailed many top politicians and officials in Sacramento outlining some of the problems I had become aware of while doing my research for this site, in effect exposing Mr. Hunt’s incompetence. Not long after, in 2003, while living in Vallejo, California my home was raided. This raid was carried out by officers from the Sacramento Sheriffs Department and Placer County Sheriffs office, working as a team in a division called Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes and in conjunction with the Sacramento Police department. The alleged reason for the raid was a claim that I had hacked into the Department of Health and Human Services and changed an email address within an employees Outlook address book. The claim was that I changed the .org in one her email recipients to .com according to the female police officer who interrogated me that day. I was also accused of impersonating a police officer. Because I was working as a network engineer and security expert, it was not difficult at all for an officer to convince a judge that I had the knowledge to do something of this nature. Why a judge would have bought the motive, however, is baffling. I neither knew the officer the email to which the email was sent or the Children’s Protective Service worker who sent the email. In reality what had happened is all email from the SACPD.com domain was being dumped into a general delivery box. The CPS worker who sent the mail made a very common mistake that happens on several of my domains everyday, she typed ".com" instead of ".org" when she addressed the email. When I received this email I responded by returning it to her and telling her she had made a mistake. I actually had no memory of the specific email in question and only was able to recall it after the officers showed me the email. It was very clear and straight forward, she sent the email, and I returned it to the sender. Upon making entry into the home an officer actually held a pistol to my son's head and told me I better cooperate. This was done in front of me, my wife and my teenage daughter. My wife and my children were held captive within the house while I was taken outside and interrogated. I was told that if I simply transferred this domain over to the Police department all of these problems would go away. I, of course, refused. Interestingly, enough of the eighteen computers running throughout my house the only systems that were confiscated by the Hi-Tech Crimes hit squad where the ones belonging to my children and wife. If I had indeed hacked into Sacramento’s computer network they wouldn’t have even known because they didn’t have the right computers. Even if they had taken the right systems and found evidence of a crime, which they wouldn’t have because there was no crime committed, the warrant was invalid for several other reasons. I can say without a doubt that my junior IT staff was far more competent than this bunch of yahoos. It was obvious that this raid was concocted as a means to extort this domain from me. Interestingly enough, I actually had an encounter with one of the deputies from the Sacramento Sheriffs Office that was on the Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force many years prior to this illegal raid. While living in North Highlands a girlfriend that I was sharing a home with who was manic depressive had an episode and was threatening to commit suicide. I called her mother who in turn called the Sheriffs Department and this was the first officer on the scene. Before even taking any time to find out what was going on I was slammed into the hood of my car hard enough to leave a dent, handcuffed and stuffed into the back of a squad car. Only after other officers arrived and cooler heads prevailed was I let out of the car. My release was accompanied with a warning – “I better not hear a word from you or about you or I will be back to get you”. And like a street thug he was gone into the night. During this same period of time I also meet a detective with the SacPD, and we became good friends. Through this detective I gained a lot of insight into how officers think and why they sometimes become criminals themselves. Police officers are absolutely needed in our society and, while the good deserve our respect and gratitude, the bad deserve a jail cell along with all the other criminals. We have somehow developed a double standard in our society that needs to be righted, and that is that officers are better than ordinary citizens. Violence perpetrated on an officer is dealt with much more harshly than violence against a civilian. There is no officer whose life is worth more than yours, mine or our neighbor's. In effect we have been legislated as second class citizens with police officers and politicians being the upper classmen. To make matters even worse, an officer who is violent with a civilian is rarely ever so much as reprimanded for his or her actions, and, unless the press is involved, will almost never be prosecuted. If he or she is prosecuted, he or she will inevitably receive a sentence far lighter than if the officer had been the victim. This problem can only be rectified by public awareness, which means public disclosure of the facts and changes in our legal system. In some form, I do believe sentences should be severe for injuring an officer while in the performance of his duty, but this can only be fair and just if the penalties imposed are as severe for an officer injuring someone while that officer is performing his duties. Here at SACPD.com, Our mission is a bit more focused than when this site was first conceived. As I had stated earlier in this commentary, SACPD.com is about public disclosure, but the center of attention has become law enforcement corruption within our society. I had considered also spotlighting the officers that are out on the street doing an outstanding job protecting us and our families, but have since decided against this as it will distract from the message I am trying to convey. Unfortunately this means that I may come across as a cop hater, and I want to assure you the reader this is definitely not the case - I hate police misconduct. This site is not about hate but progressive movement to a happier and safer society for all by allowing you access to information that will cause you to take note of what is happening around you. Our society would be in complete chaos without the men and women who are out their risking their lives everyday for our safety, but we will never be secure until the officers that routinely overstep their authority under the color of law are dealt with by the law. This seems to be the way the life of a police officer goes today. Stay Informed. Stay Secure.