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Mitre -Ramirez, Norma <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Cc: <br />Subject: <br />Categories: <br />Dear Judge Carter, <br />Lupe < <br />Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:06 AM <br />DOC-Chambers@cacd.uscourts.gov <br />eComment; Solorio, Jose; Pulido, Miguel; Andrew.Do@ocgov.com; <br />audra.fishel@ocgov.com; michelle.steel@ocgov.com; lisa.bartlett@ocgov.com; <br />todd.spitzer@ocgov.com <br />Urgent Plea re: the Homeless in Orange County <br />Correspondence <br />I am writing as a concerned citizen of Santa Ana, specifically from the neighborhood of West Floral Park which <br />is in relatively close proximity to the Santa Ana Riverbed. I have lived in Santa Ana for 6 years and worked <br />locally at a community hospital for over 10 years. I am deeply invested in this community. <br />I am asking that you and our elected officials thoughtfully consider the impact of our homeless population on <br />our community of Santa Ana. As a nurse practitioner at our local hospital, I treat these patients on a regular <br />basis. They come in with substantial medical, mental health, and substance abuse issues -many of which <br />cannot be fixed during their stay with us at the hospital. While some are kind and grateful for the medical <br />care we provide and clearly want help, many are manipulative of our healthcare system, drug -seeking, and <br />medically noncompliant. They often sign themselves out "AMA" against medical advice once the IV pain <br />medication is no longer offered to them. I see many of the same individuals on a monthly basis. <br />I have also seen many of our homeless in my own neighborhood. I have witnessed a naked man defecating on <br />Main Street, I have asked a disheveled man who was clearly "high" to leave my property as he was strumming <br />his guitar in my driveway. I have witnessed my neighbors UPS package being stolen by a <br />disheveled gentleman. When the non emergency Santa Ana PD line was called, I was on hold for 12 <br />minutes. I'm not certain that the police ever actually responded. I have heard an individual screaming "help <br />me" as he was running down my street in the middle of the night. I have seen human feces and syringes in <br />our local Fisher Park, so much that we no longer take our children to any of the parks in Santa Ana but rather <br />travel to Tustin and Irvine to enjoy the outdoors. <br />Santa Ana has educated, professional, hard-working families just like the communities of Irvine, Huntington <br />Beach, and Laguna Nigel. We are citizens, we are voters, we pay taxes. We are no less than any of the more <br />affluent communities in Orange County. We are concerned about our families, our children, our community, <br />and our property values just like all other communities. We ask that the burden of the homeless population <br />be shared amongst our communities. This is not a Santa Ana problem alone but an Orange County problem. <br />Please represent me and all other citizens of Santa Ana when deciding the future of our homeless population. <br />Sincerely, <br />Lupe Ramos <br />Concerned Citizen of Santa Ana <br />