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From: Venessa Vargas <kitwhitman5@gmai1.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2022 4:44 PM
To: eComment
Subject: City trucks pretending to be SAPD
I am a Santa ana resident. My neighborhood is Memorial Park by Washington Elementary. There is an on
going occurrence around 6-8pm where a SA city, white pick up, with lights on top, enters my neighborhood on
an intercom system similar to a patrol car. On one occasion we heard it say, "Please remain in the vehicle. " Or
it pops its horn as it's driving down the street. The latest one April 13th around 8pm it announced, "This is Sapd,
come out with your hands up". It has even come on the weekends at night cruising the residential with its
orange lights on. And neighborhood drug dealers seem to be very familiar with the vehicle, which is more than
alarming.
I am making you aware of this issue in this manner for a reason. As I have lost count of the number of years
(8/9) my neighbor will have gotten away with selling illegal fireworks and drugs. Through, I might add,NO
fault of the officers that have been busting their backs trying to help the situation.
So after this issue with the SA city trucks and other things I have recorded along the same lines, I now who is
really keeping the criminals on my street from getting caught.
30+ year resident of Santa ana
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Orozco, Norma
From: Craig A Durfey <cadurfey@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2022 4:48 PM
To: Craig Durfey; !City Clerk
Subject: Fwd: Garden Grove Police Department This new team extra social-emotion
#Paws4Students Program.
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SEL News January 2019 FINAL (4) (1).pdf, TELEVISION LITERACY AND PROGRAM
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Date: Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:40 PM
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Date: Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:38 PM
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Date: Tue, May 3, 2022 at 4:35 PM
Subject: Garden Grove Police Department This new team extra social-emotion 4Paws4Students Program.
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PARENTS FOR THE RIGHTS OF DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED CHILDREN
CRAIG A. DURFEY FOUNDER OF P.R.D.D.C.
P.O.BOX 937 GARDEN GROVE, CA 92842
CELL 714-321-8238
CADURFEY@GMAIL.COM
SOCIALEMOTIONALPAWS.COM
FACEBOOK: CRAIG DURFEY
U.S. HOUSE OF CONGRESS H2404 - HONORING CRAIG DURFEY FOR HIS FIGHT AGAINST AUTISM
... Ms. LORETTA SANCHEZ of California.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkq/CREC-2003-03-27/pdf/CREC-2003-03-27.pdf
new website socialemotionalpaws.org
To whom it may concern.
Request all school districts adopt this Therapy with RSO to assist calming down
tool for wellness.
Introducing the two newest members
of #GardenGrovePD, #K9Nellie and #K9Misha (with their respective
handlers School Resource Officers Link and Julienne).
#PSDNellie is a two year old English Black Labrador,
and #PSDMisha is a four year old White Golden Retriever.
This new team is the result of a collaborative effort with Garden
Grove Unified School District to help provide extra social-emotional
support for #GardenGrove students. Stay tuned for more information
on the #Paws4Students Program.
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#GGPD32 #PAWsome #WeCare #Nelisha Wishllie #Nellishious
Garden Grove City Hall
Reading Police Ask Students for Name
Suggestions as Department
Prepares to Welcome Second Comfort Dog
Chief David Clark is pleased to share that the Reading Police
Department will soon welcome the second of two comfort
dogs that will be paired with its School Resource Officers
(SROs).
March 29, 2022 Robert Mills Client News, Po/ice News
https://ktia.com/news/local-news/therapy-dogs-who-consoled-students-staff-after-
parkland-shooting-get-their-own-yearbook-page/?fbclid=lwAROnmvTPH IUEhHvx-
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https://socialemotionalpaws.com/blog-post-1/f/garden-grove-police-department-
this-new-team-extra-social-emotion
https://ktia.com/news/local-news/therapy-dogs-who-consoled-students-staff-after-
parkland-shooting-get-their-own-yearbook-page/?fbclid=lwAROnmvTPH IUEhHvx-
Lnr-RYUdDpFPXoWoRallrJYPvyOS2rmlWn2Ejj4lYs
Study finds the most important task for a PTSD
service dog for veterans is disrupting anxiety
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https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2020/Q3/study-finds-the-most-
important-task-for-a-ptsd-service-dog-for-veterans-is-disrupting-
anxiety.html#:-:text=The%20study%20found%20that%2C%20on,used%20in%20a
%20typical%20day.
Thank You
Craig A. Durfey
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ACW
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION
FOUNDATION
Southern California
May 3, 2022
Mayor Sarmiento and City Councilmembers
20 Civic Center Plaza
Santa Ana, CA 92701
ecomment(a,santa-ana.org
Via Email
RE: Law Enforcement Gangs in Santa Ana Police Department
Dear Mayor Sarmiento and City Councilmembers,
Law enforcement gangs are a pervasive and ongoing threat to communities across California. They
are a product of a culture that encourages misconduct committed against members of the public
and a catalyst for further misconduct through the evasion of accountability and the fueling of an
oppositional stance against the public. From Los Angeles to Vallejo, law enforcement gangs and
the resulting abuse of authority and power have prompted the California Legislature to pass
Assembly Bill 958, which requires law enforcement agencies to establish policies prohibiting law
enforcement gangs, make participation in a law enforcement gang grounds for termination, and
require the agency to disclose an officer's termination for gang involvement to another law
enforcement agency during pre-employment background checks. Law enforcement gangs have
also been the subject of numerous reports commissioned by local municipalities. The deputy gangs
within the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department (LASD) have been the focus of several
reports conducted by Loyola Law School' and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.2 The
reports detail the existence of eighteen deputy gangs within LASD, some of which were founded
in the 1970s.3 These investigations have provided information into the misconduct, excessive and
deadly force committed by LASD deputy gang members and the dangerous impact upon civilians
in Los Angeles County. Law enforcement gangs in Vallejo Police Department have also been the
1 Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at LMU Loyola Law School,50 Years of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department:Identifying Root Causes and Effects to Advocate for Meaningful Reform (2021),
https://hnu.Mp.box.com/s/ho3p29qdbmn9aipgfy8dmmukjjgw5yyc.
2 Peterson, Samuel,Dionne Barnes-Proby,Kathryn E. Bouskill,Lois M.Davis,Matthew L.Mizel,Beverly A.
Weidmer,Isabel Leamon,Alexandra Mendoza-Graf,Matt Strawn,Joshua Snoke,and Thomas Edward Goode,
Understanding Subgroups Within the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department: Community and Department
Perceptions with Recommendations for Change,(Santa Monica,CA:RAND Corporation,2021)
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research reports/RRA616-I.html.
3 Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at LMU Loyola Law School,50 years of Deputy Gangs, 4, 15.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Hector 0.Villagra
CHAIR Michele Goodwin VICE CHAIRS Rob Hennig and Stacy Horth-Neubert
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subject of independent articles4 and city-contracted investigations5 into the practice of badge-
bending and private gatherings to mark fatal shootings. LASD deputy gang scandals and lawsuits
have been reported on by the press for decades,6 but Los Angeles County elected officials have
only recently launched investigations'to intervene in the patterns of serious misconduct by LASD
deputy gang members.
The City of Santa Ana must not make the same mistake.The recent allegations'of law enforcement
gangs within the Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) must be immediately and independently
investigated and publicly reported on. The most assured approach to conducting an independent
and thorough investigation into these allegations is for the City of Santa Ana to enact the robust
model of civilian oversight as discussed by the City Council Ad Hoc Committee on police
oversight. We urge the Mayor and City Council to immediately implement the hybrid
investigation-focused and auditor and monitor-focused model of oversight to promptly investigate
law enforcement gangs in SAPD. These allegations underline the critical need for the following
civilian oversight powers to be urgently enacted.
Independent Investigatory Authority
It is crucial for the civilian oversight board to be empowered to receive,investigate,make findings,
and recommend action regarding all complaints filed against SAPD officers, all allegations of
serious misconduct,and all serious use of force incidents. The allegations of sexual misconduct by
SAPD officers at Culichi Town restaurant in August 2020 underscores the need for independent
investigations.When SAPD officers commit serious misconduct,members of the public must have
an impartial and independent investigatory agency to submit complaints and to securely discuss
the issues of their complaint.
Moreover, independent investigatory authority would provide SAPD officer whistleblowers a
meaningful opportunity to submit complaints to an independent investigatory agency,without fear
of inaction, retaliation, or harassment. This meaningful opportunity to call out wrongdoing is
crucial, particularly as a report on LASD deputy gangs found that"LASD representatives across
staff levels described the intrinsic role of supervision as being either complacent or complicit in
the formation and persistence of subgroups" and that"`there are disincentives for deputies to report
these types of behaviors because of their own involvement,the pressure to not be labeled a`snitch'
or `lazy,' or the belief that a deputy should `be tough' and handle it."'
The patterns of workplace intimidation and harassment inherent in deputy gangs also highlights
the need for Santa Ana's civilian oversight model to exclude current and former law enforcement
4 King, Geoffrey. "Vallejo police bend badges to mark fatal shootings."Open Vallejo,July 28,2020.
https://openvallejo.org/2020/07/28/vallejo-police-bend-badge-tips-to-mark-fatal-shootings/
5 Krans,Brian. "Judge says outside investigation into Vallejo police badge-bending tradition has `no value.
Vallejo Sun,March 23,2022. https://www.vallejosun.com/judge-says-outside-investigation-into-vallejo-police-
badge-bending-tradition-has-no-value/
6 Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at LMU Loyola Law School, SO years of Deputy Gangs, 4.
'Tchekmedyian,Alene."L.A. County panel launches investigation into Sheriff's Department`deputy gangs."'Los
Angeles Times,March 24,2022.
https://www.latimes.com/califomia/stoiy/2022-03-24/civilian-oversight-commisson-del2uty-gangs-investigation
8 Camacho,Ben. "EXCLUSIVE: Santa Ana Police's MET Team Includes Gang-Like Group That Sexually
Assaulted a Child."Knock LA,April 22,2022.https://knock-la.com/santa-ana-police-met-gang_/
9 Peterson et al., Understanding Subgroups Within the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, 112-113
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officers from serving. Members of the public and whistleblower SAPD officers must be assured
that the civilian oversight investigative process will not be influenced by the pervasive law
enforcement culture of allegiance and "warrior mentality"10 that condones aggressive policing.
Moreover, the City of Santa Ana must consider the shortcomings of the investigation into the
Vallejo Police Department (Vallejo PD) law enforcement gang. The City of Vallejo contracted
with a retired Sonoma County Sheriff to conduct the independent investigation into badge-bending
within Vallejo PD.11 During a recent hearing regarding Vallejo PD's use of deadly force, a Solano
County Superior Court Judge stated that the independent investigation by the retired Sheriff has
"no value" and is"not designed to bring some light"into the practice.12 To date,the City of Vallejo
has not made the investigative report public. The City of Santa Ana must not only expedite civilian
oversight to investigate law enforcement gangs,but must also ensure the investigatory process has
integrity by excluding law enforcement.
Regular Public Reporting
Santa Ana community members deserve clear answers into the allegations of sexual misconduct
surfaced in the Knock LA article. Santa Ana's civilian oversight policy must include the mandate
to post on an accessible website all public reports regarding complaint dispositions, investigative
findings of fact, and proposed discipline. The disposition of complaints must also be sent directly
to civilian complainants. The allegations of SAPD law enforcement gang misconduct must be
investigated and transparently reported on. As with the repeated failed attempts by LASD
leadership to correct patterns of serious misconduct by LASD gangs over six different sheriff's
administrations,13 residents of Santa Ana should not be asked to put blind faith into SAPD's
investigation and unsustained misconduct determinations regarding law enforcement gangs. The
public must be empowered to access and review independent investigatory reports into law
enforcement gang practices within SAPD.
Power to Audit Policies and Procedures
The civilian oversight board must have the power and authority to conduct independent audits and
investigations regarding policies, practices, procedures, customs, and orders of SAPD and to
determine whether members of the Police Department are engaging in patterns or practices of
constitutional or legal violations,misconduct, or behavior that is problematic with regard to public
interaction. Assembly Bill 958 requires law enforcement agencies to have a policy "prohibiting
law enforcement gangs and making participation, as specified, in a law enforcement gang grounds
for termination" and requires "an agency to disclose an officer's termination for involvement in a
law enforcement gang to another law enforcement agency conducting a preemployment
background investigation of that officer."14 Given the allegations of law enforcement gangs in
SAPD, the City's civilian oversight board must have auditing authority to ensure the City is fully
compliant with the new law.
10 Klemko,Robert. "Much of America wants policing to change.But these self-proclaimed experts tell officers
they're doing just fine."The Washington Post,January 26,2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-
security/2022/01/26/police-training-reform/
11 Badge-bending is a practice that Vallejo PD officers engaged in for decades,where officers involved in on-duty
shootings would bend the tip of their badges to commemorate taking lives.
12 Krans,"Judge says outside investigation into Vallejo police badge-bending tradition has `no value."'
13 Center for Juvenile Law and Policy at LMU Loyola Law School,50 years of Deputy Gangs, 25.
14 Cal.Pen.Code § 13670
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Law enforcement gangs promote a culture of violence within law enforcement agencies and inflict
irreparable harm in the communities they patrol. We urge the Mayor and City Council to
immediately enact the hybrid investigation-focused and auditor and monitor-focused civilian
oversight model and designate an investigation into law enforcement gangs in SAPD as the first
order of business. The 50 year history and pervasive nature of deputy gangs in LASD must serve
as a cautionary tale and provide the impetus for the Mayor and City Council to take immediate
action to implement civilian oversight of SAPD and investigate law enforcement gangs.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Rojas
Senior Policy Advocate and Organizer
ACLU of Southern California
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Orozco, Norma
From: catgotmymail@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2022 3:15 PM
To: Sarmiento, Vicente; Flores, Rosa; eComment
Subject: Fw: Decent innocent seniors with disabilities and low incomes with no criminal or
mental pasts being lumped in with maniacs and the dangers we innocent seniors with
disabilities and low incomes with no criminal or mental pasts being lumped in with
mani...
Please humor me, I realize this mail may seem a venting one.
But be assured it is a serious one.
I also know that the city of Santa Ana has a long history of crime.
You could be the Mayor that achieved what others did not.
Imagine that.
I am trying to sum up enough faith & hopes this could become the reality.
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Subject: Decent innocent seniors with disabilities and low incomes with no criminal or mental pasts
being lumped in with maniacs and the dangers we innocent seniors with disabilities and low incomes
with no criminal or mental pasts being lumped in with maniacs and the dangers we face daily. Yet we
cannot get section 8s to move and feel safe. In
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I am aware that my message here sounds irate, emotional & so forth.
But please humor me &understand how serious this is.
I greatly appreciate your considerations upon taking actions to do the right things.
Santa Ana has a big history of issues.
8 know&believe if changes for the betterment can be achieved that you will be honored for what you do!
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I had to remove a lot of photos because it was too much for the mail. How many months ago Isidro the
maintenance guy was supposed to clean up the disgusting worms? Ha
He only did what you could see straight from the stairway and by the barbeque.
In the newspapers if you saw this &thought seniors with health issues, cancer& such problem have to sit on
benches with hundreds id nasty looking dried worms. Under their windows too.
The maintenance guys all three are lazy & have are not conciencious.
This is extremely substandard living.
People pee all over the parking structure below. Yeah...the homeless who live here in brand new apartments are
ungrateful be and very filthy.
Not to mention drug addicts beating other seniors up sending them to the hospital. Constantly!
Homeless sleeping in the stairwells, trash all over knee deep in the trash room floors. Maintenance should be
putting it into the trash bins.
If they don't like their job their are plenty of unemployed.
Almost daily people are attacked here by either the homeless or the homeless that are moved in here because
they bring their homeless friends in to stay, drink, do drugs, party with hookers.
Or—the seriously mentally ill.
How many times have I been threatened? I can't count.
The cops could care le less. They tell the victims they will go to jail if they keep calling & if they arrest the
perpetrator,they tell them they have to arrest the victims too. So people don't trust the cops.
They are really dangerous. They have no business any of these types screwing around with barbeques. Gas is
always left on. It comes into my windows. How many fires, 4 since thanksgiving in apartments. And the fire
alarm going off continually now&then because of either smoking in the apartments or G_d knows what they
are doing.
I am having a difficult time trying not to have an emotional breakdown & I am not one of those mental patients.
Those types should never be mixed in with helpless normal seniors. Everyone having to hold onto pepper spray
or stun guns or both just to go to the laundry room, trash room or mailroom.
What country is this?
And no ramps for wheelchairs or walkers during fires! Elevators naturally shut down. They can't take the stairs,
6 floors. They stay in their apartments. Could all burn alive &no they don't all have people living with them.
There are many otter issues too.
Too many.
And as dangerous as it is, these places aren't really affordable. Each place is usually more rent than someone's
entire social security and check. It is mine!
Mostly only the adicts, mentals and guys getting out of prison or jail oh...the dangerous homeless get the section
8 rents plus 500 $ more than the usual poor senior on social be security.
I cry everyday because soon my roommate could die. He has had 2 strokes, his.memory is fading. What will
become of me & my 2 little emotional support cats? I am not an assisted living candidate nor would i want to
be. I am told homeless shelters!
Cleaning up the streets of the crazy homeless and putting the innocent seniors on extremely low incomes in the
street or shelters verses doing something more logical like the homeless, adicts, drunks, criminal, mental
patients in different buildings & allowing the innocent seniors most with disabilities live separate in safer,
cleaner conditions.
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I have never been so depressed in my life.
No wonder people have leaped to their death from the 6th floor!
We feel forsaken and hopeless. Golden years smolden years! Everyone just wants to thin the herd by killing of
off!
Can this be taken seriously and not with a grain of salt?
I think probably every adorable housing unit may have these issues because decent low incomes disabled
seniors get lumped in withe the street people & mental patients/ adicts.
That is so unethical & downright disrespectful to innocent seniors.
Instead of documentaries of helping street people and crazies,
Someone please!
Who will care about us that have no criminal records or serious mental records.
I am here to tell you now!
Who will read this and care enough to start giving the seniors with or without disabilities with no mental or
criminal pasts section 8s as easy as the bottom feeding ones who all belong locked up?
No matter when they attact and beat seniors up the police never arrest them.
I have serious PTSD!
My life has zero quality &the only reason I feel I have to live is for my 2 precious little Emotional Support
Cats. Nothing else. I had plans of writing a couple of more books. Not anymore. Doon, very soon I could
become homeless because I'm can't get a be section 8 & I will not live that way.
And now will I get evicted for crying out for help,?
Or will I be protected& given the kind of help I need?
In G d foresaken Santa Ana, formally the border of Newport Beach & Costa Mesa.
Leah Green
catgotmymail,@,yahoo.com
949-903-8208
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