.@SalinasPD is in a state of existential crisis. That should concern all of Monterey County - as well as the more powerful @MCoSheriff's dept. (@MontereyPolice)

These are leaderless entities.

Something has gone wrong.

The Salinas Chief is @AdeleFrese

And @SheriffBernal is
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the head of MCSO.

Bernal was a deputy when $750,000 bought him a seat at the table. A deputy! With 12 years on the job. 12 uneventful years - Steve Bernal was never a barn burner, as my friends like to say. He was the dude who walked into
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briefing with a "pull my finger" joke.

This guy 👇
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Adele Frese became the Chief of Police in Salinas after @Kelly_McMillin retired.

Ultimately Kelly turned out to be worse than I had ever thought possible - and I've known Kelly since he was hired by SPD.

In Kelly's absence the @CityofSalinas - led by former Det. Joe Gunter,
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someone I considered a friend - brought in Frese (whose husband is an officer with Monterey PD).

I was told Frese was selected behind the scenes because she is a person is does what she is told.

So who is really running @SalinasPD?

Someone ask @PhillipsForSup.
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Why is any meaningful coverage of these serious issues left out of @salnews, @montereyherald and @mcweekly, the three struggling but still existing newspapers in MoCo?

The Salinas Californian and Monterey Herald are controlled by large corporate and hedge fund interests.
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They have a few reporters on staff, nothing compared to what these local titans of journalism once credibly boasted.

They have been destroyed and guys like @JimJohnson_MCH are so traumatized by this fact that they have grown apathetic to their profession and who could blame
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them. Guys like Johnson and @dkellogg66 have seen their decades long employers decimated.

@bradleyzeve is another issue, however.

It is in this mix of growing isolation (from their perspective) and absolute unchecked corruption that our Monterey County "leading"
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law enforcement agencies have been rendered completely impotent to deal with serious public corruption threats - while the Bradley Zeve's remain silent.

And therein lay the problem.

The complicity in allowing beautiful Monterey County to become a rusted ship with
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a new coat of paint.

Time will tell if this is correctable but it's an indication of where the US is headed without serious intervention.

Also ... @GavinNewsom.

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