r/vallejo

If you are not watching World Cup at home, where are you watching in Vallejo? Interested in attending a watch party - particularly for Mexico vs England tomorrow! I know there's plenty across the bridge, but wondering if there are some in our neighborhood I'm unaware of!

I live on Alabama st and the purple ice cream truck that plays Cielito Lindo comes down my street often, but it drives too fast and by the time I hear it and get outside I see the ass end of it turning onto Sonoma. Grrr. I will admit I act like a kid whenever I hear the music. lol. I don't suppose they have any kind of social media presence? Does anyone know if it has an actual name? I don't need it every day or anything, but if it would just slow down a bit, it would be nice!

I’m so sad the Vallejo location closed down! We need better Filipino food in Vallejo.
All the yummy Filipino food is quite a drive to SF or Daly City. 😭 Anyways I thought this commercial was pretty cool old. I’m hoping more establishments show interest in Vallejo and at least we are getting a new and improved Costco.

Apologies in advance for this very lame and niche question but isnt that what Reddit is for?

I'm moving to the Glen Cove area soon and wondering if anyone has a jogging route that doesn't rise or drop hundreds of feet in elevation over a 4 or 5 mile route. Like, is there some weird ridge path I could take that's not a sherpa requiring assent up a "hill"?

"No, you're boned" is a perfectly acceptable answer and would actually be very helpful.

Thanks!

Sonic is finally available in my neighborhood. Ditching comcast ASAP because they keep raising my bill for no reason. I suggest ya'll do check and see if you can get sonic yet, they're expanding to more areas.

I'm gonna be paying half as much for 5X the speed.

FUCK COMCAST.

Anybody interested in joining the 4th of July Parade in Vallejo as a car club? I’ve been wanting to join but don’t really have a group of people to do it with. Would like to get some people together for a JDM section. I drive a 1990 NA miata btw ✌️ lmk!

My wife is in a wheelchair and has difficulty getting to a hair place. Does anybody have any recommendations on good in home hair stylists? Much appreciated.

The city must think the people in Vallejo are ignorant and gullible. For the City of Vallejo to claim the badge bending wasn’t a notch on the officers’ belts is asinine. To hold that report for 5 years is a testament to the city’s lack of transparency. All these years just to release a report that shows how ridiculous their investigation was. A clownish sham pulled off by the circus that is city hall.

When Angel Ramos was on his porch in 2017, unarmed and in his boxers, Officer Zach Jacobsen shot him several times in the chest. Angel was in a fist fight and the officer would stand on a lie that was disproved by officer testimony and physical evidence, falsely claiming that Angel was stabbing someone at the time he opened fire. His badge was bent after the shooting. Angel’s family protested and were targeted by officers who came by their home to harass them and harassed and threatened them in public places. The officer left as soon as the civil case settled and took a disability retirement.

When Officer Ryan McMahon came in contact with Ronell Foster in 2018, unarmed Ronell was riding a bicycle. Ronell ran from the officer and he began attacking Ronell. Ronell was stuck in the head with a flashlight several times. As he was crawling away, the officer shot him in the back and in the back of the head. An execution. After murdering Ronell, Officer McMahon’s badge was bent by Officer Jacobsen, who murder Angel the year before. McMahon was fired more than a year later for his wild actions during the Willie McCoy lynching.

There has been testimony that the badge bends were to acknowledge the officers’ survival in difficult situations. One officer called it his badge of honor. But please tell me when either of those officers’ lives were in danger or their survival in question? What part of honor includes bending your badge after shooting an unarmed man?

Those were notches on their belts. Anyone pretending otherwise is a liar or a dolt. There’s no middle ground.

And we only know about the badge bending because Captain John Whitney spoke to Open Vallejo and later testified about it, not because the city wanted to be transparent. The city attorney, city manager Nyhoff and your friend former Mayor Sampayan knew about the badge bending for a year before story broke. They tried to hide the ritual and hoped it would go away.

During that year everyone on the dais scowled at the impacted families and did nothing to support police reform, while knowing about the badge bending they were hiding. The city only ‘investigated’ the badge bending a year later because it was in the news and Chief Williams was at the helm.

History matters.
Truth matters.
Impacted lives matter.

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We just moved into Hunter ridge area and would like to find a great and reasonable vet for our Frenchie rescue. Any recommendations?

Former Vallejo Police Lt. Kent Tribble arrives in Solano Superior Court to testify about his role in Vallejo’s “Badge of Honor” ritual on March 22, 2022 in Vallejo, Calif. He is accompanied by Assistant City Attorney Katelyn Knight. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo)

The city of Vallejo has been forced to release its investigation into a macabre police ritual, first exposed by Open Vallejo six years ago, in which officers bent the tips of their star-shaped badges to mark each civilian they killed. Officers called the tradition, “The Badge of Honor.”

Open Vallejo’s reporting sparked immediate impact. Vallejo police shot someone on average every four months between 2000 and 2020, often fatally, data shows. The most recent killing came less than two months before this newsroom exposed the badge-bending ritual in July 2020; the department has not killed anyone since. When California passed a landmark 2021 law banning law enforcement gangs, the bill’s bicameral analyses cited the badge-bending revelations.

The California Department of Justice opened a review of Vallejo police in 2020, citing the “number and nature” of shootings by officers. A voluntary reform effort stalled, and in 2023 Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the city, alleging a pattern of excessive force. Vallejo agreed to court-enforced reforms.

Vallejo announced its own investigation days after Open Vallejo’s article was published. The city hired former Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano, then refused to release his report. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and Open Vallejo each sued under California transparency laws. In 2025, a state appeals court ordered the report disclosed in the ACLU’s case, which Open Vallejo supported with two friend-of-the-court briefs, and the California Supreme Court declined to intervene.

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• READ OPEN VALLEJO'S INVESTIGATION EXPOSING THE BADGE-BENDING RITUAL
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So at 1 am last night my neighbor was beating her child. He was screaming crying. I didn’t know where it was coming from at first but it was loud. I won’t say what was happening but I could hear her verbally and physically assaulting a small child who can’t speak.

I try to mind my business, I really do but this was bad. I couldn’t ignore it so I called 911. I didn’t know where it was coming from so I gave them a general location near me. She said if I found out where it was coming from to call back and let her know so when I found out I called back. They never showed up. Still, 24 hrs later, no one showed up.

I unfortunately was woken up almost a year ago around 7 am to a similar situation with a different person. My neighbor called the cops and I heard her yelling at the woman abusing her child so I called as well. Again, they never showed up. Never checked in. Nothing. Meanwhile, all over tik tok, when there’s a car accident VPD shows up 5 cars deep. I didn’t even know we had 5 officers. And why are they all on DURING THE DAY?

What good is VPD? Can someone say they’ve actually done something good for this community? I understand that this woman is struggling with raising her kids, I get that and support is needed. But what good are their salaries if they can’t even be bothered to show up for kids, let alone check-in to see if they’re still alive? That money can be going to programs where this mom can have help with her kids instead of being alone. This is why we say abolish the police. Use that money towards the community to uplift instead of break down.

EDIT: CPS was called! Ty to everyone who recommended that. In the moment, at 1 am my first instinct was to call the cops unfortunately. I’ve never been in situations like this before so moving forward I will call CPS and not the useless VPD. They also still haven’t shown up to the house to check on the kid.

EDIT 2: thank you to those who recommended IHART as well. I would much rather get this mom some help and the kid some help than get anyone shot or killed. In that moment it felt life and death bc of how bad the baby was crying. I felt so helpless and I feel so shitty for taking away from this poor child’s experience but seriously, what was I supposed to do? We need community services where ppl can trust each other bc it truly does take a village to raise kids and she just doesn’t have it.

I have been thinking about making a routine of cleaning around Vallejo (also unrelated, but if you know any cleaning volunteer groups let me know!). I want to do this with an overall goal of making an impact on Austin Creek/Pond behind eco thrift.

I’ve seen the drone footage of that area and it seems to really have taken a toll on the environment/habitat. I also notice this a place for homeless to camp out at. I don’t want to displace anyone, or interfere with their living. I just want to help clean that area as much as I can.

I am not sure if there might be distaste from people over there, or if they would feel defensive for any reason. Any insight? I’d like to do this, but safely.

Today, my partner was coming back to home on 80, still miles from home, and in an EV low on charge, so could not get home without more "charge," and I was at home, frantically searching on the magic internet for EV charging stations. It was dire. (We don't have a Te*la. We have an old Nissan Leaf.) And my increasingly desperate partner was parked in a parking lot, and happened to talk to some nice woman, who turned out to be the Mayor of Vallejo, Andrea Sorce! Who out of the goodness of her heart, as we are not voters in Vallejo, helped my partner get to a functioning charging station and saved us. THANK YOU TO MAYOR SORCE! Go Vallejo, home of nice and efficient people and a great mayor.