This is a plastic peopled town. The citizens are encouraged to
turn each other in for violations of the dreaded Code Enforcement. If you hate
someone, this is the place to live, you can make their life hell. The same
neighbor who likes to call code enforcement in my neighborhood, also likes to
make false calls to the fire dept. and gets in no trouble for this. I could
wonder what joy do people get in destroying other people's lives, that they do
not even personally know. Sim Valley whole heartedly encourages hateful behavior of this type.
Here is a riddle for all you that know Simi Valley, If someone is dying and
the rescue comes 3 times in one month alone, what can the neighbors do? They can
call Code Enforcement because the trash can was out 2 hours too long. I guess a
dying, aged parent is just too distracting on trash day to worry about getting that can in place on time. No one offered to help. This is the best time for the self-pronounced Christians to cause trouble. They can complain about everything they can think of, even though not true. That is a good Christian in Simi Valley
for you.
Previous Claims to Fame
Previous claims to fame, known as the "incest capital of America", and land of the "midnight movers". Also site of the Rodney King trial, and I hear it used to be the Pacific coast headquarters of the John Birch Society.
Family Values
Abused women and children are ignored in court system. No matter what the father did, he has rights. I have heard and seen some pretty grisly things done to children, and it is a mandate to return them to the abuser. I saw a lot of them in a talk given by the local Simi Valley police years ago, the police officer politely said "some don't make it". Re-unite the family is the cry of the Social Services.
Those who complain will lose all custody. At an abused women's group in Simi Valley, a mother who lost all custody to a child molester, after he had therapy" (you know what that is, priests have "therapy", and are cured too), was thrown out of the meetings. She was told she was "too depressing" by the therapist in charge. That is because the woman who was beat with a pipe by her husband, (then her husband paid by the county to stay home and take care of her), and all the others would hear the truth, their children were going to be re-united with the abusers, and all the screams in the world would not help.
Wow, especially if the abuser is if an L.A. City Fire captain. Firemen "never molest". Simi Valley police actually said that. If the children make complaints, it will be covered up. Imagine if you are a child, begging for help, how does it feel to you if your teacher tells you they do not want to hear it, or laughs at you. One child who called 911 for help when her brother was being beaten, and that should be heard on the 911 tape, was dragged outside by the police officer and told they personally would beat her if she called again. Simi is very nice?
Parent's United is a court ordered re-unification organization, funded by Ventura county mental health. Their only goal is reunification of "families" that have child molesters and the victims. You must obey court orders to sit in a room filled with child sexual abusers, and listen to them whine. If you do not change your attitude about taking a child sexual predator back into your home, or refuse to attend, you will be in CONTEMPT OF COURT. You will be punished. Testimony is allowed in court cases in Simi Valley divorces, "that children enjoy sexual abuse, does not hurt children, the one who tells them it is wrong, damages the child". The judges on the bench whole heartedly agree. The child welfare law does not seek criminal prosecution, only "re-unification". I have been told the courts "cannot afford to jail all the predators" who molest innocent children. Re-unification is the word here.
Neighborly Love
Simi Valley Code Enforcement has given themselves "police powers" in their posted code enforcement rules. Almost makes you feel the black boots on the ground in an early German movie. Because they can make a law anyway they choose, then enforce it without any of the legal guidelines used, given us in the US Constitution. You can go to jail, according to Simi Valley code Enforcement "laws" if someone does not like the way your house looks. If you are poor, you can lose your house, if a neighbor perhaps does not like you. They may turn you in for not having a brand new looking roof. It does not leak, does not have holes, but hey, why not get rid of you? Simi Valley on a neighbor's complaint will then force you to either put on a new roof in 30 days, fine you a hundred dollars a day, (makes sense if you are poor and that is why your roof is not brand new), force you to take a loan on your equity or monthly payments, or do it themselves and put the entire amount on your next tax bill, or even put you in jail for failure to comply. If you try to stop them from entering your property, they already made a law, you go to JAIL. Amazing part is, they can do this, because they said so. They do not follow their very own laws and procedures. An old roof becomes a "PUBLIC NUISANCE, when it has no dry rot, no rats, no warps, no buckles or pieces missing, because the code enforcement people say so, that is why. Those are the requirements to being a public nuisance.It is by decided by a public hearing. Code Enforcement apparently has never read their own rules and regulations. The good Christians were out front laughing and bragging how they got rid of someone, (who does no wrong according to the law, as written). Now those are good Christians?
How do I know they are good Christians? I have been told me so. I have been told verbally when they poisoned my yard, and destroyed a life time collection of rare plants. Jesus would not let them do anything wrong. Their letters will appear soon on this website! The complainers included in their letters how they were redoing their house to the tune of thousands of dollars, and would spend thousands on landscaping,(without permits?).They had trash all over their yard for a year or more. Now they have a broken gate and Christmas lights, that is increasing home values. It is a shame I cannot give their address for drive by looks, so you can gaze upon their exquisite landscaping, Dukes of Hazard must have done it.(Postscript: Now after several years of living in my neighborhood, yesterday, the "tasteful" neighborhood troublemaker got sod).
Simi Valley made a law in 1998 that all homes must be perfect. It is determined according to the local neighborhood trouble maker's taste, (often these are not tasteful ladies). Imagine you can move into a regular normal community, and then one day the city decides it will become a "planned community with their rules", which now are only enforced if someone does not like you...... read it!
The city code enforcement drives by all kinds of no-no's, but hey, they told me, this is only done by complaints. I find that quite the friendly atmosphere I would want to raise children in. Notice no sign advertises Simi Valley as the "Friendly City"!
Town Folklore
It appears the FBI states Simi Valley is the "safest town" in America of 100,000 population. Remember not all crimes are reported to the police, nor the FBI. Not all crimes are listed as part of this safety factor. I personally know a mother who found her 225 lb. husband bent over a 68 lb, eight year old, preforming acts, decency does not allow me to discuss. He got sole custody.The judge was mad the children did not like the abuser, who was court tested as crazy, but that is "alright". The courts are filled with child abusers getting custody, because the mother is not "sharing". Thus the old reputation of Simi Valley lives on.
In Criminal Justice classes you can learn that more registered sex offenders of children are paroled in Simi Valley than in L.A. I guess if all the roofs are perfect according to Code Enforcement, we can all live in peace here.
I like when the police hog tied my neighbor and took him away. He likes to kill my flowers, he can't tell them from "weeds", and trespasses in my yard all he wants. That is ok with the police, they do nothing. Then my neighbor who I know is smart, because he owns a big truck, can offer to bash in my head with a baseball bat, that is ok too. The police are only interested in "really serious problems". I know he is high class because the camper in his driveway, (balanced on bricks, wood and pieces of rock wedged in,) is brand new looking.
My Favorite Places
My favorite places are far from the melted down 1954 nuclear reactor in Santa Susana, at what is now Rocketdyne. They also in the 1980's shot nuclear canisters in the air to explode them. This lab also handled spent nuclear fuel rods,the most concentrated nuclear material there is. Bomb stuff. Where is code enforcement when you need them? It seems that would have been against the code here in a populated area. They left nuclear contaminated water in pools to evaporate. Many people claim the cancer rate is high here. Kinda an interesting way to dispose of nuclear waste.
I really don't much care for the toxic dump in Simi Valley, or the one which was filled before there were rules, that also has toxic waste, or the ground water it leaks into. I don't care much for the factory that smells up the air with poison near Kmart. I could have done without the place that could avoid code rules on chemicals in the parking lot, that were dangerous, and worse if mixed, in Simi Valley, because it was doing secret research. I wonder if it is still there? I read all this information in the Simi Valley newspaper. The fumes I whiffed today myself driving near Kmart. So I would guess as far from Simi Valley as I can get is my favorite. If you want, please send money, and I will gladly move. If you move here, be plastic or be prepared! Community spirit dictates everyone wants a perfect home and garden to their bland standards, and what happens inside the home is no one's concern. Like the fruit you can often buy, nice on the outside, rotten inside.
How can a city legally do any of these things? Decide all homes must look brand new. They do not uniformally enforce this. It is done on a tattle tale basis. They can use "police powers" with no restrictions that are normal civil rights in our country. They are doing at will whatever they wish, are they the Kings of Simi Valley? They can harass, and jail a struggling poor person, because they should have a perfect home, even if no such rule existed when they bought the home. It is bizarre this plan to force everyone to look the same, very scary mentality, but best for Simi Valley Code Enforcement, a real money maker, and that's what counts. Code Enforcement is not free. Your tax dollars are not enough. Code enforcement charges the victims for their time in "enforcing" their "police powers", pushing pencils (or in computer age, pc keys), presenting permits to the honored, sending citations, cost of thinking about your crimes, can hire contractors at whim to enforce compliance, throw you in jail, and they can put it all on your next tax bill, which you must pay in whole. Watch out!
Who understands and teaches the values of the First Amendments? This is arbitrary, cruel and unusual punishment, without trials, without public defenders (could the poor afford lawyers?), not uniformly enforced, not equal to all, in my book to fine a poor person because someone did not like the looks of their home. Is this credible in a modern society? Child abuse is a ticket with no jail. Hey, we hate your roof, give us your house, go to jail, lose your home! Thank you Simi Valley!
This website was the product of a real Simi Valley resident: April 16, 2002 last revised June 10, 2002
With the hope the city of Simi Valley can understand the values of the First Amendment!
Not affiliated (thank God, good Christians) in any way, shape, or thought pattern associated with the City of Simi Valley Code Enforcement, City Council, Simi Valley Police Dept. or any other city entity.
