Are you certain this is the typical sentence for felony hit and run while intoxicated twice over the legal limit ???

I was under the impression that the first DUI you get, that you get some kind of program if not time in the county jail and fined. This guy not only drove very, very drunk, he committed a felony hit and run as well. He left that guy to die in the road and hauled as* to his home several miles away (putting even more innocent people in peril) with his drunk driving. It's a shock to me that all he got was 20 days community service. Gawd, I sure hope no drunks come along and plow into him while he's doing his sentence !!!

Paul, its not one or two bad eggs. I can provide you in excess of 5o links to Long Beach police officers who have been charged with crimes over the past 5-years. Most were covered up and not reported in the long beach media. This includes rape, domestic violence, DUI, indecent exposure, killing unarmed men and women, fabricating evidence, lying under oath in court, witness intimidation, embezzlement, stealing from evidence locker, home invasion robberies, solicitation, excessive force and police brutality.

I've listed several of these links in the comment section of the below linked article. If you need more, I have links to another 28 Long Beach police misconduct articles.

http://greaterlongbeach.com/09/04/2011/citizen-police-complaint-investigator-says-he-was-fired-for-investigating

Paul you are wasting your time encouraging Mr. Ruehle to be reasonable. He has a long history of very public and personal axe grinding against city government generally and the police department specifically.
Mr. Ruehle is a fine researcher and he can easily list many instances of actual and alleged police misconduct and use these to support his conclusions that both city government and the police department are irredeemably corrupt and entirely beyond salvaging. Would that he proved even half so anxious to list the far greater number of examples of the good and great work our cops do for us every day and night.
Mr. Ruehle has an arrest record with LBPD. Perhaps he still harbors deep-seated resentments toward the police department from that unfortunate chapter in his life. I really do not know.
Mr. Ruehle once served as the BSRA President. His dealings with local government and the local business community during much of that time were so confrontational and insulting that his organization could accomplish very little of a constructive nature during his tenure.
What seems apparent, however, is that Mr. Ruehle would much prefer to complain about city government and post various false, fraudulent and potentially libelous statements on public sites like this about various elected and appointed local government officials than to find some way to work in a productive, constructive and respectful manner within the system to affect the constructive changes he seeks.
Very sad.

John Greet is a recently retired Long Beach Cop. Need I say more.

Mr. Ruehle *could* most certainly say more of a respectful, courteous, productive and constructive nature, but he wont.
He *could* say "thank you" more often, for many years of faithful service in public safety, but he wont.
He *could* say that he recognizes that his litany of links is not, to any degree, representative of the vast majority of excellent service that the vast majority of our professional police officers provide to their commnunity every day, while he sits bashing them, and every night while he sleeps safely and soundly, but he wont.
He *could* say that he will run for public office, or go to work to assist an elected public official, and work within the system to create and sustain meaningful improvements, but he wont.
Yes, there is a very great deal more of a respectful, courteous, productive and constructive nature, that Mr. Ruehle *could* say, but he wont.
Very sad.

Hi Donna: It is not Mr. Ruehle's advocacy or researching abilities to which I take exception. I have repeatedly complimented and commended him for both, on this site as well as others.
The challenge is that Mr. Ruehle is rarely content to research facts, report them as he finds them, and allow them to stand, or fall, on their own merits. Mr. Ruehle has, instead, routinely and repeatedly also posted *false* information or posted factual information in various *misleading and fraudulent* ways. I think he has done this with the clear intent of convincing others of the rightness of his points of view.
Researching and reporting facts is one thing. Repeatedly commiting rhetorical fraud and posting comments that can easily be considered libelous, is quite another.
Mr. Ruehle is very adept at finding and reporting (some of the) facts on a matter. Unfortunately he is also very adept at ignoring other facts that do *not* support his positions and posting false, fraudulent and misleading commentary in his efforts to support his positions.
His occasionally (and blatantly) dishonest approach to discussion and debate on sites such as these serves only to undermine his own credibility and to degrade, rather than improve, the overall quality of the dialog.

Perhaps, like Jesus, he is a teacher, leading people to think critically in reading his posts.

Yes, Pan, perhaps you are right. And thank you very much for the best belly-laugh I have enjoyed in some time!

Like you, Brother John - and all the good Sisters & Brothers onsite - I live to serve. :-)