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Christian Burkin

Christian Burkin writes about Stockton area crime and public safety.

Born in Los Angeles, he moved to Stockton as a teenager, briefly attended Bear Creek High School, joined the U.S. Army, served four years on active duty and then was honorably discharged.

He is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, where he studied political science, and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

He lives in Stockton, near American Legion Park.

Billboards in Baltimore

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
In another beleaguered blue-collar city, police have taken to the billboards to move public opinion. In early August a Baltimore police officer (They’ve heard of us!) posted on the Support Stockton Police Officers Facebook page a link to the Baltimore Sun’s crime beat blog. The post’s headline: “Union billboard bashes mayor and council.” The billboard [...]
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Critical Mass

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
A few people who rode in Stockton’s Critical Mass on Friday night have emailed to complain about what they call abusive behavior by the police. In an email, Critical Mass rider Jay Nelson wrote: “As we were heading north on Pershing, a southbound SUV attempted to drive through the middle of the group on a yield left [...]
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Crime Log 8/31/2010

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 31, 2010 | 0 Comments
There’s a rather long gap in the logs now. I fell behind on vacation and never caught up. I’m not going to write log posts for any of that, but I will begin to quietly update the map with crimes reported since Jan. 1. That will go slowly and take a long time. 8/29/2010, 4 [...]
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This is not the greatest live chat in the world…

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
…this is just a tribute. Below is an archive of today’s chat, for those who weren’t there. (Those who were got a T-shirt.)
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30 on Thursday: Crime

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
I have been working long and late in the past week, and have fallen a bit behind on the crime log, but I will be answering questions, or trying to, during tomorrow’s live chat. It starts at noon. The subject is crime in Stockton, but I won’t necessarily dismiss questions that range from the subject [...]
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Blood (not so) Simple

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
I wrote a story yesterday about Tracy’s (now-defunct) practice of having its firefighters draw blood samples from DUI suspects. Under California law, it turned out, firefighters are specifically disqualified from taking these samples. It’s not clear what effect that will have on the 100 or so DUI arrests the Tracy Police Department made while this [...]
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Mayor’s Live Chat: A Policing Question.

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 18, 2010 | 0 Comments
[Comment From JohnJohn: ] There is a rumor going around that the police department might be disbanning their narcotics unit. Is that really an option? Wednesday August 18, 2010 12:55 John Mayor Johnston: John: The chief of police and his staff determine what their priorities are in the Police Department given their budget. I know the chief is doing [...]
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“Money talks so come have a convo wit me…..”

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 18, 2010 | 0 Comments
That’s the last message posted on a Twitter account belonging to a Fauzia Fields. There are many messages on that Twitter account that mention trips to Stockton, where she has women “in strip clubs & the blade,” to get “$$$.” (The Blade is Wilson Way.) One Fauzia Nabeela Fields, 26, was arrested Tuesday, accused of murdering Lou [...]
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Crime Log 8/13/2010

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
8/10/2010, 11:30 p.m., El Dorado Street at El Campo Avenue: Three men were robbed at gunpoint by a man who drove up in a black four-door Honda Civic. 8/11/2010, 10:20 p.m., 400 block of McCloud Avenue: Four men were having a party in a back yard when two other men approached, one of them pointing [...]
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How was your day?

By Christian Burkin | Published: August 10, 2010 | 0 Comments
A man told police that on Monday night he got into a fight with his neighbor about something and that his neighbor fetched a revolver, pointed it at his head and pulled the trigger, twice. It didn’t fire. The man grabbed his neighbor and held on until police arrived to arrest him. The revolver was found [...]
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