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<br />Orozco, Norma <br />From:Selina Torris <selinatorris@yahoo.com> <br />Sent:Tuesday, June 16, 2020 8:24 AM <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:Police Oversight Comittee <br />Hello, <br />My name is Selina Gallegos. I am a current Santa Ana resident, born and raised, attending Santa Ana College. I <br />wish to speak at the city council meeting on June 16, 2020 on behalf of the police oversight committee. For a a <br />very long time there has been an issue getting under my skin and that is the way the police system is handled in <br />Santa Ana and the way the police system carries itself here in Santa Ana. I have witnessed police who are <br />supposed to protect and serve our communities, act out violently and inappropriately against community <br />members. I have personally experienced racial bias from police officers here in Santa Ana. I have seen police <br />officers and gang unit act more as a gang than the very gangs here in Santa Ana. This mindset that it is us <br />against the police and the police against us needs to change. It is not right for us as a community to fear the very <br />same people we are paying and entrusting our safety with. We are trusting them to protect us of harms way and <br />they are turning around and harming us. Something has got to give because if things do not change, the <br />residence of Santa Ana will have no other choice but to apply pressure until the police department is abolished. <br />We are not dumb, we are not naive, and at this point we are not afraid to stand for what is right. We appoint all <br />of you sitting in the chairs you sit today and do not forget that at any given election we can replace you. It is <br />time for the power trip to end and for you as the city council board and community police department to act on <br />behalf of the residences of Santa Ana. In order to do so we must first create a neutral unbiased police oversight <br />committee. This committee needs to be made up of voluntary based citizens and no police officers or members <br />of the POA. The police already have a POA to advocate for them, so now it is time and extremely crucial that <br />the residence of Santa Ana have someone to advocate on their behalf. <br /> <br />Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <br />1 <br />