Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Victorville Councilperson Angela Valles Exploits Home Violence, Ignoring Community Policing Alternatives Long Ignored

In Facebook, Angela Valles says that "on Sept 6th @ 7 PM at VV City Hall Capt. Yoder will give a presentation on crime and the possible need for more police. Be there and be heard. http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/victorville-29808-house-party.html
Two teens stabbed at Victorville house party www.vvdailypress.com".
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Blogger Bob: Angela: First, we need more responsible parents. Second, unless we put a cop in every home that may have a potential gathering of kids with the potential for violence (sounds like profiling me thinks), this problem will not end (so knowing that will never happen) we have to consider another approach that we don't do--we need to do less drive by "law enforcement" and put officers on the street walking beats. Try redeploying existing resources and using more trained volunteer reserve officers (many of which are underutilized)...adding more cops increases union membership and political campaign war chests, but does not guarantee better community policing. The presence of law enforcement is a deterrent. Increasing the numbers of people that will take too long to respond will not help. Maybe an idea with potential except for the nasty four letter word, SEBA, the union folks that will have to sign off on changing the use of existing force levels. Third, what are you going to do about the Victorville Station's complaints about the DA's office not taking complaints being submitted and filing charges? Has that been resolved?

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