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Salas, Diana <br />From: <br />Cruz, Yesenia <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, June 16, 2020 12:57 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />FW: Santa Ana Needs Police Accountabilit <br />From: Kelly Kraus -Lee <info@email.actionnetwork.org> <br />Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 3:33 PM <br />To: Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Santa Ana Needs Police Accountabilit <br />Juan Villegas, <br />Mayor Pulido and Members of the Santa Ana City Council, <br />Cities across the world have arisen in solidarity of the Black Lives Matter movement, including <br />Santa Ana. Santa Ana community members, including some city elected officials, proclaimed <br />that Black Lives Matter and called for an end to police violence <br />While these murders occurred hundreds of miles away, the same systemic and structural <br />inequalities that caused these deaths are alive in Santa Ana. That is the reason why Santa <br />Ana's residents, especially the youth, felt such outrage and took to the streets, even in the <br />midst of a global pandemic. For many young people in the city, police harassment and <br />violence are not abstract concepts that happen only in faraway cities. Rather, they are part of <br />their--our--daily lives. <br />Especially now, we can't ignore the fact that the Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) <br />remains one of the deadliest police departments in California. In fact, SAPID is responsible for <br />the highest numbers of fatal shootings in Orange County, with 27 shootings per 324,568 <br />residents from 2006-2016. <br />True equality, and, specifically, fully valuing Black Life would require change at every level: not <br />only our criminal justice system, but also our economic policies, foreign policies, media <br />environment, and so much more. However, and in keeping with the demands put forward by <br />