To understand Laura Capps you have to look at her parents, Walter and Lois, who presented themselves as saints while screwing over anyone (like Chris Mitchum) who threatened their power grab. They were really good at getting support from Hollywood newcomers to Santa Barbara who didn't fit in with the old Hollywood set here and didn't share their Republican values. Laura's sister also died young and she was the intellectual star of the family. Laura was always shrewd at playing the upward political game, but she is not very smart intellectually and is driven by sibling rivalry demons of proving herself to her parents. She has always seemed to me to be more than a little psychologically damaged from that. As in, the lady has no heart. She happens, unfortunately, to be the Supervisor of my neighborhood. A few years ago Laura deigned to come to us here to listen to our concerns about pot farms. She arrived in an expensive car, decked out in expensive clothes of yellow and blue - to show her support for Ukraine. And the message she gave us was clear: international Dem politics were first on her list. As for us, she gave her phony “I feel your pain” look and never did anything.
You’re right on the money this morning Andy. These clowns are living in denial of reality. Why does it always have to take some tragedy like the fiesta stabbing to wake people up? And again it will only wake very few as the rest of these Democrats/deniers will continue to live with their heads in the sand
I agree..except w/ " clowns" and "their heads in the sand..." They know exactly what and why they are doing what they do...while using taxpayers dollars to do it. It is not a good reflection on voters who continue to reelect these miscreants...predicated in no small part on their surnames.
It doesn’t matter if they don’t prosecute, if they have no-bail releases, if they get off with a light jail sentence, if they are raped, if they are underage workers in age restricted drug farms, if they shoplift, if they steal cars, if they possess firearms, if they have outstanding warrants, if they work to pay off those enterprises that got them over the border, if they operate unregulated and unlicensed carts on the sidewalk… the left doesn’t care about the risk to individuals, lives or society. They care only about how the narrative drives their interest in gerrymandering and in illegal voting. That is the path to gaining and holding power which is their path to NGO income.
Thank you Andy for this article and sharing the truth about theses criminals.
A life was lost because of terrible Democrat policies,catch and release.
Capps should be ashamed of herself for supporting these policies,specifically Catch and release and well all the other policies that has caused more destruction to our country and harm to our citizens.
Interesting though will these arrests destroy their narrative that illegals are all just hard working innocent people in our community and want a better life and ICE is just trying to destroy communities and tear families apart?
What gets me with catch & release: How did the illegals get here in the 1st place, such that useless local cops, judges & prosecutors could catch & release them or their anchor-"Democrat" spawn after follow-on crimes so they could then commit murder, rape etc? Who caught & released illegals when they invaded so they could breed anchor criminals & anchor "Democrats"? Or did nothing to catch them at all? Or weakened border security & internal enforcement?
It wasn't just Democrats. It was also the "cheap labor" interests Mr. Caldwell represents.
Very eye opening article, Andy. The local lib establishment is fine with allowing hardened criminals to walk our streets. Locking up dangerous criminals is such a “MAGA” thing I guess?
What I find very interesting is the local “media” radio silence on this disgusting crime. Why to date, has there been not one mug shot of the three arrested? Why no information on immigration status? Maybe the “powers that be” don’t want that information public?
Let’s not forget the hoax that local libs were floating about people of color living in “fear” because of ICE raids, when the real fear is of violent Latino street gangs!
Thanks Andy for presenting specific examples of the type of person the local democrats are thrusting on us as well as revealing that there are 10,000 warrants in a town of 100,000.
Spot on, Andy. This tragedy at Fiesta is exactly what happens when our so-called leaders put politics over public safety. @LauraCapps’ catch-and-release policies and @RepCarbajal’s silence on cartel and gang activity have turned Santa Barbara County into a revolving door for violent offenders.
A man arrested on major gun and DUI charges a week before Fiesta was back on the street to allegedly commit murder — and we’re supposed to believe this “pre-trial diversion” is working? Not buying it. Thanks for exposing the truth and naming names.
DOGE needs to shine its laser focus on the costs and efficiencies of our local criminal justice system. What is our community ROI on tax dollars spent.
Let's look at a wider range of taxpayer costs required to support our revolving door criminal justice system. What happens when the accused do get to trial in our lovely county court houses, which is their right to a trial by their alleged peers if they choose not to plea bargain prior to a trial. Even when they are already in incarceration and will already remain there for a good number of years based upon prior convictions. They still get their right to a fair and free trial for any subsequently charged crimes.
I invite anyone to the public galleries in the county court house and observe a criminal trial. Count how many highly-paid court personnel are required for each case, so that we may offer justice as our form of constitutional governance requires.
A sample head count of those required to be present all the taxpayers expense: the judge; the district attorney prosecutors; court-appointed defense attorneys, court-appointed translators for each defendant, if required; court reporters often in multiple shifts; court bailiffs, who appear to rotate also in shifts; court security personnel screening everyone who enters the court room even as trial observers. Let the trial now begin. What is the hourly cost of keeping that fully-staffed courtroom open?
Providing criminal justice is a tax payer duty. High compensation rates for the required layers of county personnel to provide this fair trial do take a bite out of the tax payer, but does this current revolving-door nature of our local criminal justice system in fact take a bite out of crime?
Or has our criminal justice system also been captured by the full and expanding employment demands of local government union bosses? This is admittedly a very tough call, when gang members sit in those very same public galleries with runners reporting who snitched and who set themselves up to be the next revolving door criminal perpetrators and victims.
These are the cost/benefit challenges required every time we demand to take criminals off the streets. These trials can languish for months, if not years. As court costs mount and the tax dollars disappear, while revolving-door crime continues to stalk our streets
This offers a depressing analysis and there are no easy answers at all. But we first must recognize the full dynamics at stake when delivering "criminal justice" for both the public and the protected rights of the accused. What part of this equation will howl the most, if reforms are proposed?
Nice presentation of the costs that indicate justice is not free. A positive is that once the word gets around that bad guys will prosecuted, the number of crimes will decline. We used to say that every case we try prevents another 9 cases.
Everyone is ignoring the Chinese infiltration. Why have Chinese massage parlors popped up all over this State and other's? Many of these women paid a fee to a "sponsor" and are now in "indentured servitude", another form of slavery. You should ask the women how much money their employers pay them per hour? They are paid a few dollars per guest, plus tips, not an hourly wage for the entire day. They also work the entire 12-hour day the shop is open, the Chinese don't pay any attention to labor laws. The employers do not pay them a net "after withholding"...no state or federal taxes are withheld. Hm?
A "foot massage" parlor moved in next to my studio for two years and operated blatantly on State Street. I tried to interest police and the landlord, especially because they lived there illegally, but someone paid someone off. The two Asian ladies never seemed to have any business coming in off the sidewalk, but after dark older men in expensive cars used the parking lot in back. My presumption is that they were Vietnam era vets with a nostalgic kink for bar girls and "special" massage with happy endings. I am NOT open minded about sex slavery, and presume those women and the others like them are working forever in indentured servitude to pay off their transport to America. All around us, in our faces.
It would be nice to know the specific facts relating to the pre-trial release of the three responsible for the murder felony during Fiesta for their prior crimes. Did they pay bail and how much was it? If they didn't pay bail, why? Was it based on the recommendations of our probation dept? Who were judges responsible for this? What was the rationale used by these judges to let them return to the streets? Unfortunately, the public is never privy to any of this information.
Lou- we cannot even find out from Sheriff, ICE or FBI if any of these 3 men are unlawfully within our borders., WHY is Sheriff and/or Feds protecting them?
Good Article…just one Q, “Is it possible to even have an adult conversation with someone who believes that illegal aliens have a right to be in the United States?”
Depends: Some Republicans support the rights of illegals to be here if “good people”. It’s OK if people they like break the law because they’re “good”and a conversation is possible. A conversation is less possible with the local citizen majority who think all illegal aliens have a right to remain just because they’re already here.
Good to present the "other side" of the sanctuary city soft on crime ethos, even in our own community. Thanks for this packed full punch video. It is the dialogue we need to have.
It depends on who Rivas killed. If it was some other piece of garbage don’t lock him up, give him bounty pay.
The problem with most judges is they spend too much time contemplating the moral implications of the human condition instead of being blunt enforcers protecting us from the animals in our society. We need more hanging judges like Hanging Judge Roy Bean - “The Law West of the Pecos”.
I like this judge Jeanine Pirro broad. What’s chances you’re gonna smooth-talk her - zero!
"Do you recall the stories about military-aged men from China-"
How spooky. Young men exist. Are you also going to fearmonger over young women, or is only one sex deserving of dehumanization.
"Many people assumed that these young men were involved in some way, shape, or form with the Chinese Communist Party, including perhaps, being members of the army of the People’s Republic of China."
You are an idiot! Nobody can leave China without the permission of the CCP! These young men have been arrested in association with organized crime originating from China. Yet you want to try to make something else of this because you want to obfuscate the truth! You would like to make something of these comments as if they are sexist, yet you are one of the fools in this country who can't define what a woman is!
Andy to the commentor above. I remeber all the illegals that crosses our border were mostly young men crossing not families and not children. There are photos out there to document this. When Conservatives soundes the alarm on this ,the Democrats did nothing and kept allowing them in.
To the point of the Chinese,I also remember a photo of young military Chinese men marching in uniform at our border between Canada and the US.
I personally SAW long lines of these "young men" lined up in a parking lot waiting to pick up their "envelop" at a motel in Camarillo (right off Las Posas). Envelope in hand, they were then sent to motel rooms. Presumably we all paid for this. It was shocking. Not a woman in the group. LINES of them.
Where did I say spooky. You kind of miss the point on everything. Diluting the article is about gender and trying to make the obvious point that it's mostly males that join gangs
The Triad operates out of Hong Kong. Yeah, sure, and mainland China, and Macau and Taiwan. But mostly Hong Kong. Perhaps brushing up with a movie or two might be good. I really liked Infernal Affairs (2002).
And replying to someone challenging your narrative that reads mostly like you wortoe it by "My educated guess?" as an idiot? Deduction for style points.
Whatever. Hopefully, stricter control of the border and visas will reduce a lot of these issues.
I personally SAW long lines of these "young men" lined up in a parking lot waiting to pick up their "envelop" at a motel in Camarillo (right off Las Posas). Envelope in hand, they were then sent to motel rooms. Presumably we all paid for this. It was shocking. Not a woman in the group. LINES of them.
I personally SAW long lines of these "young men" lined up in a parking lot waiting to pick up their "envelop" at a motel in Camarillo (right off Las Posas). Envelope in hand, they were then sent to motel rooms. Presumably we all paid for this. It was shocking. Not a woman in the group. LINES of them.
You seem to miss the entire point of the article and turn it into a gender issue. That isn't the point of the article at all. Most young men,not women will join a gang. And who murdered the victim,young men.
You can't deny there are gangs in communities even in SB there has been the 805 gang.
Do you recall years back the other young man killed someone in SB during a gang intiiation?
Bully for you. But I personally SAW long lines of these "young men" lined up in a parking lot waiting to pick up their "envelop" at a motel in Camarillo (right off Las Posas). Envelope in hand, they were then sent to motel rooms. Presumably we all paid for this. It was shocking. Not a woman in the group. LINES of them.
To understand Laura Capps you have to look at her parents, Walter and Lois, who presented themselves as saints while screwing over anyone (like Chris Mitchum) who threatened their power grab. They were really good at getting support from Hollywood newcomers to Santa Barbara who didn't fit in with the old Hollywood set here and didn't share their Republican values. Laura's sister also died young and she was the intellectual star of the family. Laura was always shrewd at playing the upward political game, but she is not very smart intellectually and is driven by sibling rivalry demons of proving herself to her parents. She has always seemed to me to be more than a little psychologically damaged from that. As in, the lady has no heart. She happens, unfortunately, to be the Supervisor of my neighborhood. A few years ago Laura deigned to come to us here to listen to our concerns about pot farms. She arrived in an expensive car, decked out in expensive clothes of yellow and blue - to show her support for Ukraine. And the message she gave us was clear: international Dem politics were first on her list. As for us, she gave her phony “I feel your pain” look and never did anything.
The Capps legacy. Time to find a real job
You’re right on the money this morning Andy. These clowns are living in denial of reality. Why does it always have to take some tragedy like the fiesta stabbing to wake people up? And again it will only wake very few as the rest of these Democrats/deniers will continue to live with their heads in the sand
I agree..except w/ " clowns" and "their heads in the sand..." They know exactly what and why they are doing what they do...while using taxpayers dollars to do it. It is not a good reflection on voters who continue to reelect these miscreants...predicated in no small part on their surnames.
It doesn’t matter if they don’t prosecute, if they have no-bail releases, if they get off with a light jail sentence, if they are raped, if they are underage workers in age restricted drug farms, if they shoplift, if they steal cars, if they possess firearms, if they have outstanding warrants, if they work to pay off those enterprises that got them over the border, if they operate unregulated and unlicensed carts on the sidewalk… the left doesn’t care about the risk to individuals, lives or society. They care only about how the narrative drives their interest in gerrymandering and in illegal voting. That is the path to gaining and holding power which is their path to NGO income.
Are these 3 citizens or unlawfully here?
Thank you Andy for this article and sharing the truth about theses criminals.
A life was lost because of terrible Democrat policies,catch and release.
Capps should be ashamed of herself for supporting these policies,specifically Catch and release and well all the other policies that has caused more destruction to our country and harm to our citizens.
Interesting though will these arrests destroy their narrative that illegals are all just hard working innocent people in our community and want a better life and ICE is just trying to destroy communities and tear families apart?
What gets me with catch & release: How did the illegals get here in the 1st place, such that useless local cops, judges & prosecutors could catch & release them or their anchor-"Democrat" spawn after follow-on crimes so they could then commit murder, rape etc? Who caught & released illegals when they invaded so they could breed anchor criminals & anchor "Democrats"? Or did nothing to catch them at all? Or weakened border security & internal enforcement?
It wasn't just Democrats. It was also the "cheap labor" interests Mr. Caldwell represents.
Very eye opening article, Andy. The local lib establishment is fine with allowing hardened criminals to walk our streets. Locking up dangerous criminals is such a “MAGA” thing I guess?
What I find very interesting is the local “media” radio silence on this disgusting crime. Why to date, has there been not one mug shot of the three arrested? Why no information on immigration status? Maybe the “powers that be” don’t want that information public?
Let’s not forget the hoax that local libs were floating about people of color living in “fear” because of ICE raids, when the real fear is of violent Latino street gangs!
Thanks Andy for presenting specific examples of the type of person the local democrats are thrusting on us as well as revealing that there are 10,000 warrants in a town of 100,000.
That's probably for SB county with a population of 436,000 people. Still a bunch though.
That's crazy.
Spot on, Andy. This tragedy at Fiesta is exactly what happens when our so-called leaders put politics over public safety. @LauraCapps’ catch-and-release policies and @RepCarbajal’s silence on cartel and gang activity have turned Santa Barbara County into a revolving door for violent offenders.
A man arrested on major gun and DUI charges a week before Fiesta was back on the street to allegedly commit murder — and we’re supposed to believe this “pre-trial diversion” is working? Not buying it. Thanks for exposing the truth and naming names.
Are any of these three guys illegal aliens?
DOGE needs to shine its laser focus on the costs and efficiencies of our local criminal justice system. What is our community ROI on tax dollars spent.
Let's look at a wider range of taxpayer costs required to support our revolving door criminal justice system. What happens when the accused do get to trial in our lovely county court houses, which is their right to a trial by their alleged peers if they choose not to plea bargain prior to a trial. Even when they are already in incarceration and will already remain there for a good number of years based upon prior convictions. They still get their right to a fair and free trial for any subsequently charged crimes.
I invite anyone to the public galleries in the county court house and observe a criminal trial. Count how many highly-paid court personnel are required for each case, so that we may offer justice as our form of constitutional governance requires.
A sample head count of those required to be present all the taxpayers expense: the judge; the district attorney prosecutors; court-appointed defense attorneys, court-appointed translators for each defendant, if required; court reporters often in multiple shifts; court bailiffs, who appear to rotate also in shifts; court security personnel screening everyone who enters the court room even as trial observers. Let the trial now begin. What is the hourly cost of keeping that fully-staffed courtroom open?
Providing criminal justice is a tax payer duty. High compensation rates for the required layers of county personnel to provide this fair trial do take a bite out of the tax payer, but does this current revolving-door nature of our local criminal justice system in fact take a bite out of crime?
Or has our criminal justice system also been captured by the full and expanding employment demands of local government union bosses? This is admittedly a very tough call, when gang members sit in those very same public galleries with runners reporting who snitched and who set themselves up to be the next revolving door criminal perpetrators and victims.
These are the cost/benefit challenges required every time we demand to take criminals off the streets. These trials can languish for months, if not years. As court costs mount and the tax dollars disappear, while revolving-door crime continues to stalk our streets
This offers a depressing analysis and there are no easy answers at all. But we first must recognize the full dynamics at stake when delivering "criminal justice" for both the public and the protected rights of the accused. What part of this equation will howl the most, if reforms are proposed?
Nice presentation of the costs that indicate justice is not free. A positive is that once the word gets around that bad guys will prosecuted, the number of crimes will decline. We used to say that every case we try prevents another 9 cases.
Everyone is ignoring the Chinese infiltration. Why have Chinese massage parlors popped up all over this State and other's? Many of these women paid a fee to a "sponsor" and are now in "indentured servitude", another form of slavery. You should ask the women how much money their employers pay them per hour? They are paid a few dollars per guest, plus tips, not an hourly wage for the entire day. They also work the entire 12-hour day the shop is open, the Chinese don't pay any attention to labor laws. The employers do not pay them a net "after withholding"...no state or federal taxes are withheld. Hm?
A "foot massage" parlor moved in next to my studio for two years and operated blatantly on State Street. I tried to interest police and the landlord, especially because they lived there illegally, but someone paid someone off. The two Asian ladies never seemed to have any business coming in off the sidewalk, but after dark older men in expensive cars used the parking lot in back. My presumption is that they were Vietnam era vets with a nostalgic kink for bar girls and "special" massage with happy endings. I am NOT open minded about sex slavery, and presume those women and the others like them are working forever in indentured servitude to pay off their transport to America. All around us, in our faces.
More than happy endings
You seem to have an inside line on the business practices in those parlors.
Amen!!
It would be nice to know the specific facts relating to the pre-trial release of the three responsible for the murder felony during Fiesta for their prior crimes. Did they pay bail and how much was it? If they didn't pay bail, why? Was it based on the recommendations of our probation dept? Who were judges responsible for this? What was the rationale used by these judges to let them return to the streets? Unfortunately, the public is never privy to any of this information.
Lou- we cannot even find out from Sheriff, ICE or FBI if any of these 3 men are unlawfully within our borders., WHY is Sheriff and/or Feds protecting them?
Good Article…just one Q, “Is it possible to even have an adult conversation with someone who believes that illegal aliens have a right to be in the United States?”
Depends: Some Republicans support the rights of illegals to be here if “good people”. It’s OK if people they like break the law because they’re “good”and a conversation is possible. A conversation is less possible with the local citizen majority who think all illegal aliens have a right to remain just because they’re already here.
https://youtu.be/fFQrdI40Gxw?si=Th2yt3RyQH-GQLEl
Good to present the "other side" of the sanctuary city soft on crime ethos, even in our own community. Thanks for this packed full punch video. It is the dialogue we need to have.
I've interviewed many, gaining their trust.
It depends on who Rivas killed. If it was some other piece of garbage don’t lock him up, give him bounty pay.
The problem with most judges is they spend too much time contemplating the moral implications of the human condition instead of being blunt enforcers protecting us from the animals in our society. We need more hanging judges like Hanging Judge Roy Bean - “The Law West of the Pecos”.
I like this judge Jeanine Pirro broad. What’s chances you’re gonna smooth-talk her - zero!
"Do you recall the stories about military-aged men from China-"
How spooky. Young men exist. Are you also going to fearmonger over young women, or is only one sex deserving of dehumanization.
"Many people assumed that these young men were involved in some way, shape, or form with the Chinese Communist Party, including perhaps, being members of the army of the People’s Republic of China."
Bro what. So you assumed because... because?
You are an idiot! Nobody can leave China without the permission of the CCP! These young men have been arrested in association with organized crime originating from China. Yet you want to try to make something else of this because you want to obfuscate the truth! You would like to make something of these comments as if they are sexist, yet you are one of the fools in this country who can't define what a woman is!
another example that liberalism is a mental disorder!
Andy,you are spot on.
Not a liberal, a monarchist. But I'm not suprised you ignore this as it's easier to pretend you owned a lib.
Andy to the commentor above. I remeber all the illegals that crosses our border were mostly young men crossing not families and not children. There are photos out there to document this. When Conservatives soundes the alarm on this ,the Democrats did nothing and kept allowing them in.
To the point of the Chinese,I also remember a photo of young military Chinese men marching in uniform at our border between Canada and the US.
I personally SAW long lines of these "young men" lined up in a parking lot waiting to pick up their "envelop" at a motel in Camarillo (right off Las Posas). Envelope in hand, they were then sent to motel rooms. Presumably we all paid for this. It was shocking. Not a woman in the group. LINES of them.
Gm, why is that spooky?
Where did I say spooky. You kind of miss the point on everything. Diluting the article is about gender and trying to make the obvious point that it's mostly males that join gangs
GM...don't feed the animals...
Yes, let's keep our little echo chamber full of words we all agree with.
Most men aren't in gang.
The Triad operates out of Hong Kong. Yeah, sure, and mainland China, and Macau and Taiwan. But mostly Hong Kong. Perhaps brushing up with a movie or two might be good. I really liked Infernal Affairs (2002).
And replying to someone challenging your narrative that reads mostly like you wortoe it by "My educated guess?" as an idiot? Deduction for style points.
Whatever. Hopefully, stricter control of the border and visas will reduce a lot of these issues.
Andy Caldwell. You realize I'm more traditional than you, right?
You honestly think I'm a leftist? You haven't a clue have you.
There's over a million women in the PLA, but go on about "military age men".
And I suppose you won't respond because then you'd look foolish, no.
I personally SAW long lines of these "young men" lined up in a parking lot waiting to pick up their "envelop" at a motel in Camarillo (right off Las Posas). Envelope in hand, they were then sent to motel rooms. Presumably we all paid for this. It was shocking. Not a woman in the group. LINES of them.
Yeah but they are not invading our Country
What invasion my guy? The Sea peoples aren't invading Thebes anymore.
22 million unvetted illegals,mostly males, let in this country is an invasion.
Not an invasion. And is it an invasion if it's females - or are men alone capable of forming an invasion force?
I personally SAW long lines of these "young men" lined up in a parking lot waiting to pick up their "envelop" at a motel in Camarillo (right off Las Posas). Envelope in hand, they were then sent to motel rooms. Presumably we all paid for this. It was shocking. Not a woman in the group. LINES of them.
You seem to miss the entire point of the article and turn it into a gender issue. That isn't the point of the article at all. Most young men,not women will join a gang. And who murdered the victim,young men.
You can't deny there are gangs in communities even in SB there has been the 805 gang.
Do you recall years back the other young man killed someone in SB during a gang intiiation?
I don't care for the point. I address whatever I please, I don't play by the right's rules.
Bully for you. But I personally SAW long lines of these "young men" lined up in a parking lot waiting to pick up their "envelop" at a motel in Camarillo (right off Las Posas). Envelope in hand, they were then sent to motel rooms. Presumably we all paid for this. It was shocking. Not a woman in the group. LINES of them.
I don't care about what political stance you take. Just pointing out the obvious.
Another day of trolling Theo? Always entertaining. Bro.
Nope, not trolling. I take it you can't actually address what I have to say?