Our revolving door

Do a drive-by of the Solano County sieve if you’d like to witness the daily outpouring of the recently incarcerated, but be careful lest you be trampled by the exiting stampede. (One passerby likened it to the Oklahoma land rush but without the buggies.)

Big-time proponents of our misguided “catch and release” policy are keeping our county calaboose in pristine condition with the pillow mints untouched. This legal leakage of malcontents is no fault of the staff that works there, but rather the onus is on our ever forgiving elected officials and their shortage of grit.

A prime example of this pardoning pandemic recently occurred. An article in The Reporter gave details off our separate traffic stops performed by the Vacaville police. In all four cases, once the car was stopped, it was found out that the occupants were the proud possessors (not to be confused with owners) of Glocks, Rugers, and other fully loaded weaponry tucked in their trendy sweat pants. Oddly enough, none of these ruffians were, by law, permitted to even fond le firearms let alone promenade in public with them.

Since none were first offenders, the arrests proceeded in an orderly fashion with no need for cell phone recordings, and all were happily hauled to the hoosegow. One would think that due to the heinous havoc these hoodlums could have wreaked, they would be tucked away for eons.

Guess again. Thanks to California’s revolving door policies, all four fun-seekers were released back into the wild, ready to re stock their arsenal and hit the streets again, but hopefully, avoid another VIP tour of the Sol an oho key pokey.

— Bill Ferguson/Vacaville