Here’s some food for thought. There are some statistics available concerning assaults in Waikiki and elsewhere on Oahu, and it isn’t a pretty picture. I suggest downloading the Honolulu Police Department’s annual crime statistics for 2009, the latest year available. The island is broken down into districts, sectors, and beats. Districts are the largest, beats [...]
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Back when I was a pup, in the days long before cell phone videos and concerns about civil rights, the Honolulu Police Department had something called the Metro Squad. They were very visible throughout the 1960s in potential trouble spots like Waikiki, where they looked for trouble and could respond in kind. They cruised the [...]
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Excellent work by Gordon Y.K. Pang and Michael Tsai, along with Craig Gima and Rob Shikina, in pulling together lots of information on the fatal shooting involving a federal agent in Honolulu for APEC. Their article appears in today’s Star-Advertiser. They were able to background the alleged shooter through online sources while official sources remained [...]
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More on the big sandwich case, but first: As of this morning, Romeo’s wake-up video had jumped to 19,635 views. That’s just shy of 1,000 added views since yesterday morning at this time. Now, on to Safeway country. • Can you believe that I’m almost feeling sorry for Safeway? I’m not sure what’s the worst [...]
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Dealing with a family medical matter left me little time yesterday to worry about today’s blog post. Usually I have a chance over the course of the day to browse around, select something interesting that’s worth picking apart, and having at least a few thoughts when the cats start the 5 a.m. wakeup call. Today, [...]
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Here’s a little item that makes you wonder. The state awarded a $327,000 contract last year for installation of a photovoltaic system on the roof of the Waimea Public Library on Kauai. It’s one of a series of similar installations on state buildings in various parts of the state. But the contractor ran into a [...]
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I was not surprised to see the news that five people have been indicted in the mortgage fraud scheme on Maui that was cloaked in Hawaiian sovereignty theories and rhetoric. The defendents were associated with several Maui organizations, including the Hawaiiloa Foundation, Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, and The Registry. You can read the indictment here. [...]
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Kaaawa hasn’t had another reported burglary for nearly two weeks. The last identified by HPD was on May 10. Did heightened awareness in the community begin to serve as a deterrent? I don’t know. Meanwhile, a reader wrote: Last time our neighborhood in Kaneohe was burglarized we figured out who did it by going to [...]
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