This police department violated the law by encouraging my former 5 time evicted court documented mental patient roommate to file complaints about me.
I was on the lease for 3 years. The main lease holder moved out leaving me with a mentally ill roommate who was hell bent on getting the entire lease to a tremendous deal on a 3 bedroom flat with a backyard and garage for $1,200 in 1999. It was an incredible deal in a tight housing market in San Francisco. My rent was low and I wanted to hold on to it as long as I could to save money.
This roommate filed for Chapter 13 the day she moved in with us. I was there first. I had excellent tenant references. The main tenant was Betty Fairchild, a famous author whose two roommates had left her with two empty rooms. We did not know the roommate's history, but it was serious. She had been kicked out of the Progress Foundation's mental health housing project and accused the counselors of harassing her there. They couldn't handle this woman. Then the mental patient lived an entire year at the Mary Beth Inn without paying rent prior to moving in with me and Betty Fairchild.
It was like something out of the movie Pacific Heights. The evictee knew the legal system, knew the game.in fact, she demanded two court trials for her legal evictions. "Religious Society of Friends" even had evicted her.
As in the film Pacific Heights, after Ms. Fairchild moved out, this mental patient would call the police on me about everything from missing rags and light bulbs, to the smell of sulfer that came when I put chemicals in my fish aquarium. She referred to it as "body odor" in her legal case filed against me. Ms. Pacific Heights was planning on filing a civil suit for damages against me until her attorney saw her case history.
The police came onto the property, first to give me a ticket for assault, claiming there was a "welt" on Ms. Pacific Heights face. She took a photo of her own face as her only evidence. She had no witnesses. I had argued with her about her moving my property around regarding space issues.
One would think the police would be able to easily establish which one the nut case was, not these officers! They enjoyed the victimization of me because she was an African American and they didn't agree with our living together. So, they were enjoying victimizing me with this woman. Often they were brought onto the property to write up reports on roommate messes, without my knowledge.
This lady felt completley free to harrass me, block my entry, try and prevent my moving in a fish aquarium by calling the police. One day she called Officer Ronald Gerke who she had spoken with about me previously. He came over within minutes of her call, huffing and puffing, angry looking like he wanted to kick my but. He said "who do you think you are?" for moving over her exercise equipment so I could get my large aquarium in the hall way. He stayed on the property fully on the side of this mental patient nutcase, for 30 minutes when absolutely nothing had happened! All I was doing was moving in my fish aquarium.
I filed a second complaint on this police department, this officer had said as he sat in my kitchen monitoring me, that he had "all the time in the world" (1999). That was clear from the evidence of the 20 police reports these idiots wrote up on me, most of which were written without my knowledge!
This police officer also spoke with other tenants on the property about me over some dispute with the storage room lock. It busted and I bought a new one to replace it. Nothing was valuable in there. I paid for the new lock myself and gave them the keys. This cop was curious about that!
There was never any evidence of this wacko's "welt" other than the police report that caused me $2,000 in legal fees. I was employed at Morrison & Foerster, LLP, my roommate was self-employed! The only thing she did was flash her student faculty teaching badge at them and spoke of me as if I was a 38 year old adolescent.
The police wrote so many false police reports against me, and violated the Constitution by coming onto my property to search it without my permission or knowledge (recently the Supreme Court ruled they cannot do this without both tenant's permission), and the only thing on my record at the time was a 7 year old reckless driving ticket that I performed community service on. I had no significant record at all. I was just a single woman and they wanted to believe my roommate's lies that I was a criminal element.
The police did so much work on behalf of the mental patient, that she was able to get a 3 foot restraining order. The day I moved, she was so "frightened" of me that she came outside to observe my move, monitoring the storage area that really wasn't her storage area so it shouldn't have concerned her (she had a huge garage for her storage area).
This lady took out a $90K student loan after her bankruptcy and acted like she had no history. It was like the guy in Pacific Heights, it really was. She was completley, totally victimizing me. The police had a lot of time on their hands, and worked on behalf of a criminal who ripped many landlords off, and who has no intentions on paying back her $90K student loan in her lifetime as she would be 60 when her first payment would be do.
The police basically chased me off of my leased property, where I had lived for 3 years without ever being late on rent. They never got my side of the story whenever they wrote up reports on alleged vandalism of my own property. They didn't care, they just wanted to help the criminal element get rid of her problem.
The police cost me a total of $4,000 for all of their mischief on my property. I once came home to find a huge sack of trash sitting on the property as it was clear it was deliberately put there by their department member to continue the victimization of me, as they knew I had performed community service for a reckless driving ticket and for "evading" a police officer who I had gone to high school with. The police were completely unprofessional, out of line and in the end they all partied with the criminal after I was harassed off of the property like a criminal.
The police at the Taraval station are a bunch of sickos who can't be trusted to do their jobs correctly. I had another experience where I spit out of my helmet one day. It didn't come anywhere near the car that was 100 feet away and I wasn't directly spitting at it. The police officer completely turned around and drove 1/2 mile down speeding, out of control with his lights on to stop me to ask me why I spit at him. I didn't complain about this time because I was tired of filing complaints against these Keystone cop idiots who side with criminals and look to victimize innocent people. These men are truly psychos at this police department.
I had another experience where a new co-worker I had shared my experiences with about this police department, tried to blackmail me into helping her break free of her grandfather. She was going to tell my employer about the restraining order I had in 1999, a major law firm! She spoke with the police officer involved in the case, and he made her hysterical about me! She put on a dramatic show on his behalf, in front of my employer, in order to try and get me fired. It didn't work. She was clearly the psycho and had forged a credit card application. These are the kind of people the police at the Taraval side with - criminals. It seems the criminals contact them, like in the movie Pacific Heights to victimize innocent people.
Today I have a new lease in a beautiful Nob Hill building and will not be having roommates ever again if I can help it.
Cheryl
San Francisco, California
U.S.A.
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