VIDEO: Watch Cerritos Councilwomen Carol Chen and Mayor pro tem Solanki Move to Close Cerritos Sheriff’s Station at Council Meeting

Growing Red Ink Budget says:

Mayor Ray, Chen and Solanki:

Your article, like most letters is being written by staff, all staff letters create sun shine reports. Sheriff kissing butt stories are misleading and false; residents are tired of candy coated Cocaine stores out of city hall. Im not least bit amused.

…..NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH AND VOP
Below standards in participation, most hoods are not involved because of language barriers, plus VOP personnel cancels all personal insurances such as Medical and Life Ins. Polices. Our neighborhood watch signs are faded and non- legible, because they are over 2 decades old. Face the beat, immigrant property owners will not forward numbers or email contacts.

…..FINGER PRINTING/ DETECTIVES.
Processed not by Sheriffs, but by 3rd party. Detectives are flop over from the Sheriff Station closure in the Los Cerritos Mall, as mall is too cheap to finance and except residents to pay for their crimes occurring on private property.

…..OVERNIGHT PARKING PERMITS
Costing residents over $.5M to operate. City lies, says it keeps crime down, but we have no data on street crimes, since this was voted in during the 60’s and never has gone to public vote, city knows it will fail. LA County allows parallel driveway apron parking to get cars off the street and protect parked cars in driveway from being stolen. Why does Cerritos not allow for apron staging to prevent theft and reduce the need for permit parking? Own sheriffs said if the streets were better illuminated, they would be huge reducation in night car thefts, as the street are dark from over grown trees and the immigrant property owners are too cheap to illuminate their properties.

…..$14M SHERIFF BUDGET
No big deal, the 3 captains ea. earn $300K Yr, plus the cars, jail and administration staff, constitutes almost 50% of the $14M. Then tell the residents the low number of patrol cars at night, is aprox 75% less then the units during day hrs, because day shift is mop lady for all the motor vehicle accidents and the BW cars cruising thru mall parking lots, checking expired DMV Plates. Then tell the public all of the hrs the BW are not on streets, as hiding behind buildings writing reports and talking on priv cell conversations. Why do we need to spend another .$5M on sheriff gym and jail yrly?. Story fails to mention, BW cars are being dispatched to all HS in ABC during operation of educators and the Regional Park has a BW car dispatched their daily. Story fails to report the $300K Sheriff RV Bus is sitting idle and not being used. In addition, some of the motorcycle cop tab is subsidized by the tax payers, over and beyond the $14M.

…..VOP- VACATION CHECK

Register for vacation check, VOP only comes out once and not daily.
When residents first register, the VOP follows with one vacation check, what waste of money and trust.

…..CENTRAL ALARM SYSTEM:
For decades, many candidates running for office promise we would have a centralized computerized burglar alarm system to all 15,000 homes, at no expense to owners. This would be more effective in combating crime it would be very inexpensive way to patrol all the neighborhoods. This has never happened. We were to be notified of all burglaries, etc via text, but watch captain said it would spook the protective Chinese elements in the community.

…..DON KNABE STREET:

Why does Blairwood need patrol hrly, when no other streets are patrolled that heavily.

…..HELICOPTER CONTRACT.
Why are we paying $250,000 yr for patrol, when we have access to (2) free helicopter under Fire and Sheriff contract?

……..CERRITOS SHERIFF JUDGMENT:
$25m Baptismal judgement, Cerritos had to pay, and the guilty cops are still on patrol.
$6M Wrestler judgement at Regional Park, Cerritos Had to Payout.
TBD: Sheriff murder on Artesia Blvd.

……SHERIFF RADAR TRAPS
Residents are tired of getting these NANNY moving violation tickets, resulting in fines, assessments, processing fees, court costs, insurance increases and traffic school cost. This is not Communism, this is Cerritos. Government should work for the people, not against.

………CERRITOS INVESTORS.

Most residents purchased in to the city, because it was a beautiful master plan. Look at the master plan today it has been Altered/ botched. City is no longer beautiful the city is not maintained, plus growing more filth and weeds yrly. Don’t blame the recession this has been ongoing process for many decades. We did not purchase here for all these baby sitting classes at the swim stadium, Senior Citizen Center, PnR. If the sheriff still do not want to operate at a cost effective, terminate the policy.

We also need to think more frugal. Dissolve the planning department, and turn the planning department over into Los Angeles County Corps of Engineers and planners . Dissolve the Park and Recreation. All of the Administration staff should be terminated and hire out to outside contract labor via labor cool. Stop the insurance benefit packages for life . No other Private Industry has life insurance benefits for life. Stop the bleeding of the retirement packages prior to 25 years.

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