This issue was recategorized from City Council Meeting Agendas and Minutes to Parking Enforcement.

City Clerk's Office assigned this issue to Sergeant Brian Foster

Call 510-337-8340 to report these issues when they are occurring. Please be sure to specify to the dispatcher that you want contact by the officer, and provide them with a good phone number to call you on. An officer or parking tech will respond to the call when dispatched (calls are dispatched by priority, and parking calls are low priority as there us no danger to life/felony crime being committed etc). Thanks.

Yes Sgt. Foster we have already done that and that doesn't work. I submitted this under "City Council Meeting Agendas and Minutes" for a reason

Hey Sgt. Foster so just to follow up and confirm that following your advice achieves absolutely nothing;

The other day I witnessed my neighbor driving out of his carport at 2614 Central Ave with his pickup truck, which does not have a front license plate. I watched as he drove the vehicle onto a public Alameda street (Central Ave), made a left turn towards Broadway and proceeded out of sight.

I immediately called APD to report the vehicle driving without a front plate. The dispatcher put me on hold for 5 minutes to buy him time to get away as soon she recognized my voice.

Then, as I tried to tell her what just happened, she literally started giving me attitude and questioning me why I was reporting someone for driving without a front plate.

You can't make this stuff up. Only in Alameda do the dispatchers actually give you attitude and demand you explain yourself for trying to report a cr.i.m.e in progress.

"What, you're trying to report someone breaking the law? Why? What's wrong with you" -APD dispatchers, every single day when someone calls them to report a crime

THAT is the reason why I opened this request Sgt. Foster. You need to fix your department. Your dispatchers are totally out of line and refusing to do their jobs. Your dispatchers are giving callers attitude and even interrogating them as to why they would dare call and report a crime in progress!

What kind of joke outfit are you guys running anyway?

Also he was out driving his silver Dodge Ram pickup truck today, which also has no front license plate. He was out driving it around from around 4 AM until this afternoon. Your officers did nothing about it. They never even attempted to cite him.

His daughter also was driving around in her Infiniti QX56 SUV all day with no front license plates either

and she blocked the driveway and her family swerved into our driveway all day to go around her suv as a bonus

so thanks for letting this continue for years Sgt. Foster. We all know we can't count on your police department for anything, and that we're completely on our own when laws are broken in our communities. We can't count on you for ANYTHING.

And then to add insult to injury the people who you allow to break laws every day even go to the further extremes just to rub it in and mock those of us who try to report them.

Your police department is utter trash, enforces no laws, does not serve the people of this island and uses the taxpaying residents of this island as a bunch of cattle to fund your property investments and retirement. You all make six-digit figure salaries at the expense of Alameda's working class who you ignore and ridicule when we try to report crimes. Your dispatchers give us attitude and treat us worse than the criminals you let run amok in our neighborhood every day.

I dont even know how you sleep at night knowing what a disgrace you are and how badly you treat the people who subsidize your department.

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So tell me again why we should follow your advice Sgt. Foster? Tell me again why you're suggesting we call that number to report this when it is occurring if your very own dispatchers refuse to take the call and even give callers attitude and question them about why they're even reporting it? Riddle me that Sgt. Foster!

Can you imagine calling 911 and trying to report someone being a.t.ta.c.k.ed by a mugger, and the dispatcher, instead of immediately dispatching an officer to the scene to save the victim, starts giving you attitude and demanding that you explain to them why you're reporting this? Can you imagine if your department treated all calls the way they treat mine?

Again I dont know how you even sleep at night. You should be deeply ashamed of yourself, but then again that sort of shame would require that you actually have morals and ethics, which I don't actually think you or any of your colleagues do.

Sgt. Foster remind me again why we are paying you almost $300,000 a year (https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2018/alameda/brian-foster/) to summarily mass-close parking enforcement requests on seeclickfix without resolving them, and giving useless, tone-deaf advice that totally disregards what we told you like "just call our dispatch center when this is occurring" (even though that's precisely what we've BEEN doing, with absolutely no results) to alamedans concerned over your departments' continued failure to enforce laws in our community?

How do you justify robbing the taxpayers of nearly 300 grand every year, more than what software engineers make at Apple and Google, to sit around ignoring us and letting criminals run amok in Alameda?

Also, if our city doesn't even have the budget to hire more than 1 animal control officer for a city of 79,000 people, has a severely understaffed police department that can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 3 hours to respond to a call, etc, where are we getting all this money to pay you and your colleagues literally hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to sit around doing just about nothing all day? If we can't even afford to clean up homeless encampments, massive blight and i.l.l.e.g.al dumping all over marina village, etc, how is that we're still somehow magically able to afford to pay you more than what senior software engineers with decades of experience, degrees in computer science, etc, make at multi billion dollar multinational mega-corporations like Google to sit around doing nothing? How does that work? Sgt. Foster can you riddle me this as well?

You seem to think we're all wrong for being upset with you. All the hundreds of seeclickfix users I see on this website criticizing you and your department every day. In your mind we're all wrong and you're right. I'm just a nasty big meany pants for saying all this stuff right Sgt. Foster? I have a lot of nerve to be complaining about you being paid 300 thousand bucks a year to do f---ing nothing all day! Right? I am the bad guy for complaining about being harassed by my neighbors every day for 2 years straight. I'm the bad guy because my neighbor feels entitled to own and drive multiple vehicles on public streets in Alameda without a front license plate, with a suspended license after being arrested for a DUI, etc. I'm the bad guy, not my neighbor, right Sgt. Foster? Me and the 100s of other people on this site who criticize you and your department daily for your continued failure to enforce the law in Alameda. We are all wrong, we are all the bad guys and you are the good guy. The poor innocent Sgt. Foster who ONLY makes $300,000 a year with taxpayer dollars. Right? You're just a poor angel and we're all bad guys for criticizing you!

Sgt. Foster, you can even ignore everything else I said, just answer me one thing. What do you have to show for all the hundreds of thousands of dollars that the taxpayers of this city have paid you and your colleagues? What do you have to show for it all these years later? How much law enforcement have you actually done and how does that compare to what you've been paid? Have you actually done enough work in our community to warrant being paid more than a seasoned engineer at Apple or Google? Again, what do you have to show for all these years of being paid such insanely high salary and benefits packages?

and some people still wonder why we have budget problems

Hey Sgt. Foster so I just spotted the owner of 2614 Central ave hop in his silver dodge ram pickup truck with no front license plate and speed off westbound onto Central Avenue. He was speeding and his turns screeched as he burned rubber onto central. First attempt to report it to APD (as he was getting into the vehicle, before he drove off in the hopes that maybe they'd catch him before he leaves the island) your worthless, rude and incompetent corrupt pile of trash dispatcher put me on hold. They've been doing their "is this an emergency or can you hold" game all morning, since I first reported my neighbor's i.l.l.e.g.al motorcycle activities earlier this morning around 7 am. All these hours later and they're still playing that game to screw over Alameda taxpayers who pay their salaries and buy time for criminals to get away.

Then the second time I called after holding for 10 minutes and watching this j-ck-ss get away, your worthless and corrupt dispatcher immediately rerouted me to some extension that started playing hold music, like the kind you hear when you call city hall. This just further proves that your dispatchers are making their own rules and finding new ways to ignore callers. Normally when dispatchers put you on hold you have a periodic beeping sound, but they just rerouted me to some other number to sweep the call under the rug, hence the hold music.

Finally, after the third attempt (15 minutes after he already drove off), a dispatcher finally answered, and this time they didn't ask me if I had an emergency like the dispatcher were asking all morning today from 7 AM to 11:13 AM. Isn't it interesting how the "emergency" magically disappears after only 3 attempts to call them?

Anyway, just dropping by to remind you that you're full of sh** and your advice is f***ing worthless because your stuck up, entitled dispatchers who think they're above everyone in this town despite being a bunch of uneducated, room-temperature IQ police academy rejects who get paid six digit figures just to sit in a call center all day picking their noses and watching youtube are too busy enjoying themselves at the expense of taxpayers to take our calls

Once again I extend my sincerest gratitude to APD for their continued refusal to enforce laws in our community, and continously demonstrating that there is no bottom to how low you can sink. you are the lowest scum of any law enforcement agency in america

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