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Orozco, Norma <br />From: nohemi ramos <ramosnohemi051@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 3:42 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: police accountability <br />We the people of Santa Ana demand that our budget be spent on our community & not on a police force that <br />continuously fails to serve & protect us. We NEED rent control, we NEED better roads, we have a HUGE <br />homeless & mental health crisis on our hands! We need better funding for our schools & for our community <br />based programs. We DESERVE police accountability! Our police department's budget is $144,227,570 which <br />continues to increase every year while our community is literally falling apart. You cannot go a day in Santa <br />Ana without seeing homeless people &/or druggadicts on our streets & when they commit crimes the police are <br />never helpful. Our police department has an F rating, they have at least 13 deadly force incidents, that's higher <br />than 70% of california police departments. They have at least 108 reported complaints of police misconduct in a <br />community thats is primarily hispanic and whose large portion of residents are undocummented or have <br />undocumented family members. Making complaints against the police (even when they clearly violate our <br />rights) is a rare occurrence within our community, because <br />1. People are scared of the police &/or fear retaliation <br />2. We know nothing will be done to those police officers abusing their power or using excessive force <br />3. The people often targeted do not speak english or do not know their right (& even when they do know their <br />rights they are threatened with violence or arrest when speaking out against their abuse of power) <br />ect.... <br />& even when people in our community file complaints against the police only 1 in 54 complaints are ruled in <br />favor of civilians (from 2016-2018) <br />therefore having a police force with zero disregard for the life of those they have worn to serve & protect is <br />NOT something we are willing to accept or ignore any longer. We NEED police accountability, We demand <br />disciplinary actions taken against police officers who abuse their power & use excessive force. <br />- A concerned resident of Santa Ana <br />