Safe Places to Live is South Bay Area

[justinbro2002]

Originally Posted by bobby_guz_man

That's the beauty of our city being too dependent on property taxes

The forefathers should have made the choice in the 50's: either expand all the way and become a second LA, or stay compact and build upward.

Starting with Hayes and Mineta, our city half-assed the whole growth thing and this is what we get now, a nominal tax base to fund our public safety along with all our Communist (ooops I mean welfare) programs

Oh well. But the police response thing has been going on for at least 10 years. I remembered back in 2002 the police already stopped showing up at accident site unless there're injuries involved...

San Jose is only going to get worse with the changes the city made to the police department's worker comp for injured officers where they have to accept another job with less pay if they are permanently disabled. They are losing officers to other police departments and not getting applicants

[bobby_guz_man]

Originally Posted by justinbro2002

San Jose is only going to get worse with the changes the city made to the police department's worker comp for injured officers where they have to accept another job with less pay if they are permanently disabled. They are losing officers to other police departments and not getting applicants

Well if you're permanently disabled, you SHOULD be getting another job with less pay since you can no longer do the original job. That's HOW THINGS ARE.

Oh well, I guess if the cops want to be glorified security guards in the little villages of Sunnyvale and Mountain View, nothing we can do to stop them

The cops who stay because they actually want to be cops, you know, to protect the weak and defend against actual evil and crime, they're fine with me. They have a higher calling than just the money amount, for that I give them my utmost respect.

The ones who complained about their stratospheric pay being cut to semi-stratospheric levels, and threatening to move onto the peanut towns around San Jose to pick kittens off from trees, they can go for it, aint' gonna miss them.

[NoMoreSnowForMe]

I'm not familiar with the workers comp issue with the SJ cops that's apparently been in the news there, but the workers comp laws changed in CA back around 2004, and part of what is required of employers now, is that they MUST offer the disabled employee modified work.

Prior to this law the employer could get away with saying there isn't a job for the injured worker, that they could do with their limitations. So, I'm wondering if this is simply the new law that's being blown into some thing specific to the SJ disabled cops.

And a disabled employee who is working part time can collect disability to augment the part time income. So, I am wondering if the city is just following the new workers comp law, and what the problem really is here.

[y2kat2003]

Thanks to those that have given viable feedback so far. No point in responding if one has nothing useful to add.

[nothruaccess]

Originally Posted by y2kat2003

Thanks to those that have given viable feedback so far. No point in responding if one has nothing useful to add.

The problem is that your main list is pretty broad. All of those cities have good and bad parts. I lived all over the Bay Area and would rarely say an entire city felt 'safe.' You may want to narrow down your search based on other criteria (proximity to where you are working, etc) and then go from there. Not just for the fact that it's a large search area, but traffic can be a beast if you're working in downtown San Jose, but commuting from Palo Alto, etc.