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Please add any comments below regarding your thoughts on police oversight. <br />There are many people in Santa ana that are being threatened, vandalized, robbed, are <br />living next door to drug dealers and gangs. And they can't get justice because some of <br />the people that are victimizing them have friends and family working in the SAPD, not <br />just as officers but as dispatchers and non sworn employees. I think all sworn and non <br />sworn employees should be a part of this. Police department employees are getting <br />away with drug dealing, harassment both physical and sexual, vandalism, street racing <br />(my neighbors have friends in dispatch that help out the street racers) and witness <br />intimidation. Nothing is being done about it. <br />A police oversight committee should be established in order to keep the Santa Ana Police <br />Department accountable. As a Santa Resident establishing this committee will bring back <br />trust within the community and how law enforcement is seen. <br />Especially head out the youth on this problem. The city overlooks them always and it <br />affects them more than anyone else. <br />Fund the police we don't need more criminals we need police. If an officer get out of <br />control get rid of them. We don't need anti police residentsvwoth no skin in the game <br />bossing our officers to meet there woke wants. <br />I would also recommend that a summary of each meeting being held be provided to the <br />public. This would help build trust and true transparency. Thank you <br />This will end up being a political minefield. It will cause more harm and division. <br />The police oversight board should be independent, investigatory, be disciplined, have <br />secured funding, and engage the community. The Board must be composed of <br />representatives from communities most affected by police practices and exclude current <br />and former cops or family members of cops, exclude current and former city employees. <br />The Board should be able to subpoena witnesses and documents, including police <br />disciplinary documents, video and audio footage. <br />We desperately need police oversight. The current situation is an extremely bloated <br />police budget that gets wasted in terrorizing poor people, while SAPD takes insane <br />amounts of time to even respond to actual violent calls. My fiance was pulled over for a <br />traffic stop by five cops cars in Santa Ana, so you clearly have the budget for that, but <br />when a drugged up neighbor tried to break down the door of my childhood home, SAPD <br />didn't show for 45 minutes. On top of that, dispatch refused to believe my fiance, telling <br />him he "deserved" whatever anger the guy was throwing at him, and making up some <br />weird narrative about my fiance probably knowing this guy, etc. We never met the guy <br />before this. SAPD showed up, didn't bother making a report, and we moved shortly after. <br />Your department is a disgrace. We know better than to bother calling cops now. We will <br />continue working to defund the police department and redirect money elsewhere.
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