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Please add any comments below regarding your thoughts on police oversight. It's about time there was police oversight. I applied for a position with this pd and they put me under a permanent 24 hr surveillance which is a waste of taxpayers money. I have filed numerous complaints and the Santa Ana PD never does anything about this. This PD has employees stationed in my neighborhood and I live miles away from the city of Santa Ana. They use the pretext of doing background checks when in reality they are wasting taxpayers money, violating my rights and my neighbors rights to be free of unlawful harassment, intimidating innocent people, and violating HIPAA rules. It is apparent some of the Santa Ana PD employees enjoy sitting all day behind surveillance equipment wasting taxpayers money. It's time santa ana pd stopped playing around with high tech surveillance equipment and dedicated themselves to doing their job which is what is expected and what they're paid for. Santa Ana PD has not been called or even needed in my neighborhood. I am an advocate of police oversight to ensure corrupt employees are removed from their positions and replaced with employees who are actually willing to do their job. Some of the employees involved in this wasteful surveillance include Irma Vasquez, Lorenzo Carrillo, Eric Demopoulos, Marlene, Tina, a woman named Elizabeth, and a man named Scott. For the survey, perhaps further expand on the definition of the proposed community oversight. Additionally, a civilian police oversight team SHOULD work with local activist organizations. Consider a police oversight department a possibility ALONGSIDE police defunding and reallocating of resources to other public sectors including parks and recreation, arts, and education Do not defund the police This would have to be an independent department (not influenced by the PD or City Council). We oppose this and believe in our police departments€T`"s ability to carry out their duties with honor and therefor would not need to be micromanaged by such a committee. I believe that it is needed and welcomed by Santa Ana residents. It's a bad idea abandon the whole idea I think oversight is only as good as the knowledge, understanding of laws and rights, and the intentions of those serving. Working in law enforcement, one should expect to be held accountable for one's actions. However, being used as a scapegoat for political purposes or crucified because of people's ignorance serves no good purpose. The law enforcement profession will find it hard to recruit quality applicants if they fear they may be the sacrificial Iamb every time a cop somewhere in the nation screws up.. Any oversight should not be to scrutinize police or degrade them, that should be held in utmost awareness. Given the state of policing across the entire U.S., I believe it's incredibly important to have citizen oversight that includes all the powers necessary to ensure police officers are kept accountable for their actions. This is also important to counter the power that police unions often abuse to protect officers from consequences. City Council 34 — 60 9/7/2021