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Orozco, Norma <br />From: John Leon <info@emaiLactionnetwork.org> <br />Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2020 11:37 AM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: Agenda Item 65D: I Oppose the Current Budget that Increases Police Spending <br />E-Comments System, <br />I am a resident of Ward 4 and I am writing to voice my opposition to the proposed City of <br />Santa Ana Budget for the 2021 Fiscal Year that increases the Police Department's budget <br />I ask that you vote against the current budget. Instead, cut SAPD's budget and use the <br />savings to preserve and prop up city programs like libraries, parks, housing, small businesses <br />and worker cooperatives, as proposed by the People's Budget framework submitted to your <br />office by local organizations. <br />These have positive impacts on the community and contribute to a healthier city. Due to <br />impacts of COVID-19 on the city's tax revenues, we understand deep cuts are expected in <br />next year's budget. Yet public safety spending is increasing by millions of dollars. When the <br />has a history of ONLY equating public safety with policing spending, this is unjust and <br />inequitable. <br />Additionally, my father has experienced racism within the Santa Ana Police Department as <br />the officer could not understand his English skills and asked him rudely to not speak at all. He <br />was prejudice towards my dad and although I was young and in middle school at that time, I <br />knew what the officer did was offend my father and my family thinking he was better than him <br />for not being able to speak English correctly when my father was only trying to answer the <br />officers questions regarding my fathers situation. <br />John Leon <br />john.a.leon@icloud.com <br />901 S Garnsey St <br />Santa Ana, California 92701 <br />t <br />