The Ancient Greeks had a name for the thing with eyes bolted to light poles all across Fresno. They called him Argus the All-Seeing, a giant whose whole body was studded with a hundred [...] Continue Reading
Police Accountability
El monstruo de 100,000 ojos; o ¿quién vigila a los vigilantes de Fresno?
Los antiguos griegos tenían un nombre para esa cosa con ojos atornillada a los postes de luz por todo Fresno. Lo llamaban Argos Panoptes, el que todo lo ve, un gigante cuyo cuerpo entero estaba [...] Continue Reading
Three Cents on the Police Budget
REFLECTIONS FROM THREE MEMBERS OF FRESNANS FOR A PEOPLE’S BUDGET Bootstraps Aren’t Real But This Bridge Called My Back Is BY ARIEANA CASTELLANOS I come from a long matriarchal line of healers [...] Continue Reading
El presupuesto policial: la perspectiva de un padre del sureste de Fresno
$251 MILLONES: eso es cuánto de nuestros dólares, ganados con el sudor de los contribuyentes, asignó el Concejo Municipal de Fresno al Departamento de Policía (FPD) para 2026. Para 2027, el alcalde [...] Continue Reading
The Police Budget: A Southeast Fresno Father’s Perspective
$251 MILLION—that's how much of our hard-working taxpayer dollars the Fresno City Council allocated to the Police Department (FPD) for 2026. For 2027, Major Jerry Dyer is proposing to increase the [...] Continue Reading
More Police, Hiring Freeze for Other Departments
On May 14, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer proposed a $2.55 billion budget for fiscal 2027. The budget includes funding for 21 City departments and new investments including many in capital improvements—$1 [...] Continue Reading
What the Flock?
(Editor’s note: Reprinted by permission from Rad Rag.) In 2024, Fresno entered into a three-year, $1.6 million contract with Flock Group Inc. Here is what we have learned (so far) about the [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans for a People’s Budget
Who gets to decide what safety looks like in the city of Fresno and how are taxpayer dollars used to build that? A new advocacy group, Fresnans for a People’s Budget (FPB), formed to bring awareness [...] Continue Reading
The Icemen Cometh
In the 1939 play The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill, the “iceman” symbolizes a harsh truth that dispels illusions. In our time, the ICE branch of the federal government, along with the Border [...] Continue Reading
Authoritarian Policing in Fresno and D.C.
A 2025 report titled “Driven by Bias: An Analysis of Police Stops in Fresno” by Catalyst California in partnership with Fresno Building Healthy Communities finds that “the Fresno Police Department [...] Continue Reading
$488 per Minute to Police Fresno
Property taxes ($202.6 million annually) and city sales taxes ($143.8 million annually) comprise the lion’s share of the City of Fresno’s revenue. Perhaps taxpayers should be more concerned about how [...] Continue Reading
Kill the Poor 2.0
“The sun beams down on a brand new day, no more welfare tax to pay, jobless millions whisked away, convinced the liberals it’s okay, so let’s get dressed and dance away while they kill, kill, kill the [...] Continue Reading