The Orange County Sheriff treats this apartment complex like they treat Chipotle or Dunkin Donuts, they are here 24/7. They are always prowling around in this complex looking in parked cars during the day, running license plates of parked cars, and are parked illegally in red zones waiting to give tickets to the tenants for anything and everything. Just last night (02/22/2010) a cop car was illegally parked on the red curb in the main entrance of this complex (on private property) with his engine running and brake lights turned off (they have a switch in the car to do this). Not only was this cop illegally parked and drooling to give out another ticket, but he was blocking the exit for other cars. They do this at least 3 times a week. They especially like to ticket the tenants for tinted windows, illegal exit of the complex (they have a double yellow so you can only turn one way, be careful), burned out tail lights, burned out head lights, speeding, and whatever other crap they can pin you with. They must know that they are out of line because if you get pulled over, they try to negotiate with you. They start off by saying they could give you a ticket for this, that, and whatever, but if you just sign the ticket, they will only pin you with a lesser/cheaper offense. They like to ignore the illegal immigrants and various trash diggers and are perfectly contend being glorified meter maids. Stopping real crime doesn t generate ticket revenue.
The complex is average, but I have never seen cops so desperate to hand out tickets in one area. This is like living in a speed trap. They don t care about real crime, only ticket revenue. If you call about suspicious people digging in trash or drug deals going down, they take their sweet time.