SAN PEDRO : Police Commissioners Urge Passage of 2 Tax Measures
Members of the Los Angeles Police Commission told Harbor Area residents Tuesday that if they want more police in their neighborhoods they should support two tax measures on the November ballot that would pay for 1,000 new officers and improve the city’s emergency communications system.
Commissioners Stanley Sheinbaum, Ann Reiss Lane and Anthony de los Reyes made their remarks in response to citizens who praised community-based policing but complained about the the lack of patrol officers in San Pedro, Wilmington and Harbor City. The commission held its weekly meeting at San Pedro’s Peck Park Community Center instead of Parker Center Tuesday as part of an effort to meet with residents in their own neighborhoods.
“We need each other,” Sheinbaum said, urging the 300-member audience to overcome what he described as America’s traditional distaste for taxes.
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