STANTON : Panel Issues Report on Ways to Cut Crime
The Stanton Community Safety Committee has recommended increased police patrols, expanded code enforcement and neighborhood preservation programs and increased graffiti abatement to improve safety and fight crime.
The committee, which made the recommendations in a report to the City Council, has been meeting for five months and was composed of seven residents appointed by the council.
The council decided recently to meet with the committee on May 25 to talk about the 55-page report.
Recommendations also call for the city to work with community organizations, businesses and residents to reduce crime. The committee met for more than 50 hours, according to chairman Harrison Hamada. Mayor Sal Sapiensaid he hopes the report will help the council improve community safety.
In other business last week, the council gave a commendation to Alejandro Mejia, 19, an assistant apartment manager who in February saved a 1-year-old child who choked on a penny.
The Orange County Fire Department, which was called in the incident, credited Mejia with saving the baby because he thought to check the child’s throat when it stopped breathing, according to Sapien.
Mejia shook out the coin and the child later recovered, said Sapien, who presented the commendation.
“I thank God that I was there,” Mejia said.
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