Defeat of Proposition 1
I pay a sewer service charge.
I pay a city trash pickup charge.
I pay a charge for each rental unit.
I pay a charge if I don’t move my car on street-sweeping day. Etc., etc. etc.
None of the aforementioned charges were ever ballot issues! Why doesn’t the deficient City Council demonstrate some real leadership in the volatile political issue of the Police Department? We need 2,000 or more policemen! I voted Yes even though I pay $75 per month for private security guard service at my residence.
If the city government doesn’t provide, expeditiously, the protection needed by its citizenry, it faces a lawsuit obliging them to do so.
WINIFRED DYE SMITH
Los Angeles
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