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STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA

Nickname(s): California's Sunrise Seaport, Mudville, Stocktown

Motto: "Stockton—All America City"

Country United States

State California

County San Joaquin

Incorporated July 1850

Government

• Type Council-Manager

• Mayor Ann Johnston

• City Council Elbert Holman

Katherine Miller

Paul Canepa

Diana Lowery

Susan Talamantes Eggman

Dale Fritchen

• City Manager Bob Deis

• Senate Lois Wolk (D)

• Assembly Joan Buchanan (D)

Cathleen Galgiani (D)

Area[1]

• City 64.753 sq mi (167.708 km2)

• Land 61.670 sq mi (159.723 km2)

• Water 3.083 sq mi (7.985 km2) 4.76%

Elevation 13 ft (4 m)

Population (2010)

• City 291,707

• Rank 1st in San Joaquin County

13th in California

65th in the United States

• Density 4,500/sq mi (1,700/km2)

• Metro 685,306

Time zone Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)

• Summer (DST) Pacific (PDT) (UTC-7)

ZIP code 952xx

Area code(s) 209

FIPS code 06-75000

GNIS feature ID 1659872

Website www.stocktongov.com

[cripplecreek]

Better arm the citizenry.

[yldstrk]

no police doesn’t “cause” murders. Murderers cause murders. You could have zero police if you had better people.

[randog]

I suppose with this bankruptcy the city can now renegotiate union contracts...??

[Jim from C-Town]

Who will be next?

[MrB]

Don’t fire the third assistant wine steward to the mayor,
but gut the police force so that the public hurts and will submit to higher taxes.

[STYRO]

“We have hit the wall; we are insolvent,” said Mayor Ann Johnston. “Citizens will not be affected.”
This statement is self-contradictory. Apparently the mayor is an idiot, and thinks the residents of her city are also idiots. I wonder who is being murdered in Stockton, if not citizens?

[ScottinVA]

It’s a shame what’s happened to that city. Haven’t been there in decades but went there numerous times as a kid to visit relatives and back then (1960’s) it was a beautiful area.

[SaxxonWoods]

Police: Cut way back.

Overpaid paper-pushing Administrators: Doing just fine.

[cicero2k]

The entire California central valley, where I lived for 21 years; is toast. Redding-Sacramento-Stockton-Fresno.

The coastal areas attract wealthy business founders, entertainers and foreign wealth. Their employees must live nearby.

The central valley gets maybe some small businesses and we all know what happened to them. Even the retired state workers in Sacramento are moving out. Sucks to be Redding-Sacramento-Stockton-Fresno, they have no political clout.

[sand88]

having cut 40 percent of its city's employees was the only option,

I would hope that most of this 40% are paper pushers. I wish they would provide a breakdown.

I bet it's all smoke-n-mirrors. Is there independent confirmation that 40% of the city workers have been "permanently" let go?

At the local,state and Federal level, the parasite class always, and I mean always, finds ways to bleed more from the hard-working taxpayers.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

It is not because of the housing bubble, it is because politicians make promises they cannot keep with no consequence, why does Stockton need a marina, loans to pay for crap citizens don’t need.

[Nip]

There is another thing that Stockton is going to do — it will provide the rest of America a clear road map as to what is going to happen when other cities, large and small, go under.

Additionally, it will provide a like sequence of events that other cities will experience.

So far, having a stock of weapons and munitions is the first confirmed thing on everyone’s list of personal survival items.

I am going to purchase some more munitions and expend some of my older stock on the range this weekend. How about you?

[Go Gordon]

That’s what happens when the average yearly pension for a fire fighter is $157,000.

[Sea Parrot]

When I got transferred to Bakersfield in 1986, even then, rest of the valley knew about Cesspool Stockton crime rate.

[C210N]

FYI, this interactive and useful map shows 71% of mortgages in Stockton underwater and the Zillow home price index at $57,500. Interesting to pan around to see which nearby counties are in the same boat, and where the nearest counties of solvency exist...

[N. Theknow]

Do you know what happened 162 years ago this fall, back in 1850?

California became a state.

The people had no electricity.

The state had no money.

Almost everyone spoke Spanish.

There were gunfights in the streets.

So, nothing much has changed, except women had real boobs, and men didn’t hold hands.

[lurk]

Look for the UNION label.

[DTogo]

Stockton needs OCP to build them a Robocop.

The fictional dystopian future of Hollywood movies is becoming an American reality under the Soetoro Regime.

[TexasRedeye]

Guess they could sell some of what is now “surplus” police vehicles and use the money for gun buy back program. Solves both problems/sarc

[shorty_harris]

A co-worker of mine has a house in Stockton. Recently he counted something like 41 gunshots in one evening heard from his property, which he claims is in a nice area. He’s originally from Afghanistan. He said it reminded him of when the Soviets invaded.