This column didn’t come easy. Write and erase, write and erase — because when you’re about to name names and lay bare the failures of people who took oaths, you want to get it right.
There is a police department distributing partial video while a CHP investigation remains open. Ask why, and the answer is to question your right to ask. What are they trying to hide? When you ask questions, you don’t get answers — you get blamed for asking. This is the cycle this column exists to break.
A nation that throws away more food than it can eat while people go hungry has a rot somewhere in the system — and so does a county where fraud goes uncharged and officials go unquestioned. Sacramento writes laws to protect the fraud. The institutions double down. I didn’t choose this beat. But I was handed it, and the job is simple: shine a light.
