Santa Ana Needs Police Substations
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It is an extremely poor idea for Santa Ana to build a gigantic, $100-million police headquarters while simultaneously closing its neighborhood substations.
These substations have proven effective in deterring crime, as neighborhood merchants and residents can tell you. The new headquarters is an expensive fortress that will serve mainly the comfort and ego of police brass.
A police “presence” on the streets is needed to deter crime. When police “disappear” from a neighborhood and are concentrated in a large office complex, the crime rate goes back up.
I suggest the Police Department lease out its expensive new building and restore (even expand) the neighborhood substations.
JENNIFER MARKS
Irvine
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