How irresponsible government spending killed a cop

PatriotNews · Nov 18, 2011

This police officer was also a coach, and besides leaving behind 3 daughters, had adopted two children of a friend who passed away last year. Vallejo declared bankruptcy 3 years ago. Because of this they were operation with only 6 officer riding solo to protect a city of 115,000 people. The crime rate in Vallejo California was high before they gutted the police department. I know because I was myself robbed at gun point in Vallejo while working as an armored car guard several years ago.

A Vallejo police officer was shot and killed Thursday during a foot chase after a bank robbery suspect lost control of his car and ran into a backyard, authorities said.

The officer, James Capoot, a respected 19-year veteran of the Vallejo Police Department and the married father of three daughters, was driving alone in his cruiser just after 1:30 p.m. when he came across a fleeing silver SUV wanted in a robbery that had just occurred at the Bank of America at Springstowne Center on Springs Road.

The slaying has shaken a police force still reeling from budget cuts and the departure of dozens of officers since 2008, when the cash-strapped city of 117,000 declared bankruptcy. Some veteran officers left voluntarily in hopes of preventing younger officers from losing their jobs. A federal judge released the city from bankruptcy earlier this month.

Bassett said Capoot was one of six police officers patrolling the streets during the day shift when the shooting occurred. The officers were all working solo at the time. Bassett said officers are typically paired up to patrol the streets during night shifts.
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Vallejo ( /vəˈleɪ.oʊ/ or /vəˈleɪhoʊ/; Spanish: [baˈʎexo]) is the largest city in Solano County, California, United States. The population was 115,942 at the 2010 census. It is located in the San Francisco Bay Area on the northeastern shore of San Pablo Bay. Vallejo is named for General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.

Vallejo is home to the Six Flags Discovery Kingdom theme park (formerly Marine World and Marine World Africa USA) ; the now-defunct Mare Island Naval Shipyard; the regional office for Region 5 of the United States Forest Service; the California Maritime Academy (part of the California State University system); the Vallejo Center campus of Solano Community College; and Touro University, an osteopathic medical college. Ferry service runs from a terminal on Mare Island Strait to San Francisco, through Vallejo Transit's BayLink division.

Vallejo has twice served as the capital of the state of California: once in 1852 and again in 1853, both periods being brief.[2] Some of the first Europeans drawn to the Vallejo area were attracted by the sulfur springs; in the year 1902 the area was named Blue Rock Springs. In 2008, Vallejo became the largest California city ever to file for bankruptcy.
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