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Orozco, Norma From: Jackie Cordova <jcordova4@msn.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2022 10:03 AM To: eComment Subject: Public Comment on Agenda Item 38: Police Oversight Ad Hoc Committee Informational Report Council Member City Council, To: Mayor Sarmiento and the Santa Ana City Council, In the richest country in human history, we have given the majority of our societal funds and resources to law enforcement/incarceration model. When it came down to it, we had to put our money where our mouth was and prove the investment. There was an investigation. Where are the results of that investigation? Sheriff-turned-Councilman Juan Villegas never met with us Mothers of Santa Ana regarding the violence we were going through in Santa Ana during the Trump regime of 2017, yet he rode all the way to the White House on our backs! Where are we at on previous charges as the results of all those FBI investigations Santa Ana? The police brutality charges, domestic terrorism; the list is long! What ever became of the crimes committed in office for decades? Who will answer to the trauma and violence our own police department put our Community through as we defended ourselves in multiple planned attacks against us by white supremacists, as SAPID cowered in the corner, while they stood by and watched and laughed. In this Sanctuary City, We can not move forward until these outstanding issues are resolved. These are just some of the lingering questions I have which garner my support of a Police Oversight Committee in Santa Ana as a necessity, a requirement. We've been talking about this since the 1960's. It's high time to take action. We urge the Mayor and City Council to take action on Agenda Item 38. We also urge the Council to direct staff to prepare an ordinance to establish the oversight model to be considered by City Council before the end of the 2021-22 Fiscal Year as well as charter amendments that enshrine police oversight in the city's charter and strengthen its powers.