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<br />Orozco, Norma <br />From:Adriana Castro <adri.castro65@gmail.com> <br />Sent:Thursday, June 18, 2020 3:39 PM <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:Approve Item 75A & Item 85A <br />Dear Santa Ana City Council, <br /> <br />I am currently a law student that was raised in Santa Ana. My entire family is from Santa Ana. I am a product of <br />Santa Ana attending a public high school in this district. I consider myself lucky to be in this position, however, <br />I do not give Santa Ana the credit of creating these types of opportunities for its citizens. There should be many <br />other Santa Ana students getting their bachelor's degrees and attending graduate school. The current system is <br />set up to not encourage these systems, but instead increase oppression in our city. I blame this oppression in the <br />underfunding of programs designed to help its people prosper. <br /> <br />The City of Santa Ana needs these two measures to help our community. The recent decision to give the Santa <br />Ana Police Department ("SAPD") an additional $200,000 for five police cars is disappointing when this money <br />could have gone to actually empower our community. Santa Ana needs effective Community Oversight with the <br />authority to exercise proper oversight and accountability of the Police Department and its officers. Further, <br />funds given to the Santa Ana Police Department can be used to create programs to help our youth or provide <br />housing. Anytime of assistance to aid the community would be a better cause than giving additional funds to the <br />SAPD. <br /> <br />I encourage the Santa Ana City Council to put their citizens first and not the SAPD to help other individuals in <br />our community reach success. <br /> <br /> <br />Best regards, <br /> <br />Adriana Castro <br />1 <br />