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What is going on at the Fontana Police Department?
The Geneva Shore Report had suspended delivery during the pandemic but stopped by last week to return to regular delivery to the front window. However, that was not to be. The woman, cold as the driven snow at that window, informed the GSR employee that the police department no longer was interested in receiving the paper and that if issues were left then they would be thrown in the trash.
The GSR is used to some negative commentary and emotion. The staff likes to feel that the GSR form of presenting what it believes to be the truth is painful to some. The GSR did not always support the Fontana Police Department. When the worst chief of police around the lake finally left to be replaced by the new one, the department improved dramatically, and the GSR went with that. No more speed traps up and down the road leading to Sentry. No more staking out the bars in Fontana at closing time to arrest anyone coming out and putting a key into the ignition of their car.
So, what happened? What is this new need for shunning the media? The Fontana community has three police agencies set cozily into the main body of the small land and harbor area. The Fontana Police, the Lake Police, and the Water Safety Patrol (the last two sort of quasi-police agencies). Yes, three. The population is 98 percent white with 12 back residents registered. Fontana is the second richest community situated around Geneva Lake. What’s going on in Fontana that the public, and Fontana’s neighbors, might need or want to know about? The GSR can handle rejection. It’s been coming in for the last eleven years, so the Fontana Police reaction (or at least that of the glacial woman the department has chosen to be its front person) is not new and can certainly be accommodated.
However, the whiff of secrecy is now wafted into the social air and the GSR is like a journalistic bloodhound when it catches a hint of weirdness or counter-cultural ill will be fomenting and swirling around. We’ll check it out.
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