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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 10 CRIME WATCH 03-03-80DATE: FEBRUARY 26, 1980 CONSENT CAT.RNDAR Inter-eom TO: MAYOR, COUNCIL, CITY ADMINISTRATOR FROM: C. R. THAYER, CHIEF OF POLICE SUBJECT: PROPOSED RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO CALIFORNIA CRIME WATCH Attached is a letter from Attorney General George Deukmejian requesting our City support relative to the California Crime Watch. The Attorney General is establishing programs on a State level which will ultimately involve local jurisdictions. His goal is: 2o 3o Achieve and promote an informal public watch which will support retention and expansion of effective local crime prevention programs. Educate actual and potential crime victims how to better protect themselves. Develop a more responsible administration of criminal justice to vigorously and effectively locate, identify, apprehend and convict criminals. Deter actual and potential criminals by warning them of the increased likelihood of apprehension and conviction and of the enhanced probability of grave punishment should those warnings be ignored. The attached sample Resolution is in support of his efforts. FISCAL IMPACT: None RECOMMENDATION: Council approve Resolution as submitted. C. R. THAYER/ Chief of Police CRT:sa epar me t! of JJu lire George Deukmeiimt A~torney Ge.era! December 17, 1979 (916) Charles R. Thayer Chief of Police City of Tustin Centennial at Main Tustin, California 92680 Dear Charlie: As you are well aware, statistics for the first nine months of this year show an overall rise of 7.5 per- cent in serious crimes. Among the most promising means available to reverse that increase is citizen involve- ment. This is particularly true with reference to local crime prevention programs. There is no question that an adequately informed and responsibly motivated citizenry can help restore public safety in the 1980's. Consequently, I have begun work on a statewide Plan to Restore Public Safety in the 80's. It is called California Crime Watch. The goal of this plan is to con- duct a coordinated, vigorous and effective statewide crime prevention crusade to reduce crime and violence during the next decade. To achieve this goal will require all of us in law enforcement to work together to: *Promote an informed public ~nich will sup- port retention and expansion of effective local crime prevention programs. *Educate actual and potential crime victims how to better protect themselves, their homes, means of transportation, businesses, schools, parks and other recreation areas. -2- *Develop a more responsible administration of.criminal justice to vigorously and effectively locate, identify, apprehend, convict and punish criminals. *Deter actual and potential criminals by warning them of the increased likelihood of apprehension and conviction and of the enhanced probability of grave punish- ment should those warnings be ignored. To begin my office's part in this important effort, I am centralizing our crime prevention resources into one Crime Prevention Center, headquartered in Sacramento. I have expanded the scope of the Center's goals as well as increased its staff and substantially expanded its resources. My purpose in undertaking this major effort is to commit more of our resources to the front end of the crime problems - thereby providing greater protection and safety for our citizens. I have directed the Center staff to work with you and all law enforcement officials to help focus attention on all local crime prevention programs which already ex%st, develop new and innovative prevention programs and provide every possible means of support for local efforts through snatewide coordination and leadership. I have actively recruited the best people availa- ble to lead the Center's operations. In overall charge is Senior Assistant Attorney General George Nicholson, who was an Alameda County Senior Trial Deputy District Attorney for nine years, before spending the past three years as the Executive Director of the California District Attorneys Association (CDAA). To assist Nick is Jack Beecham, who was a River- side police officer for 10 years, a senior consultant with the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training for four years and Undersheriff of Yuba County for two years before spending the past year as Director of Training with Nick at CDAA. To begin this important effort requires a uniform statewide declaration of will. Enclosed is a sample resolu- tion declaring 1980 to be California Crime Watch, the first -3- year in our decade-long Plan to Restore Public Safety in the 80's, which we have sent to the chairmen of California's 58 Boards of Supervisors and to the Mayors of the state's 419 incorporated cities. Will you please personally urge your Board of Supervisors' chairman and your Mayor(s) to formally adopt it? In coming days, I will be in touch with you sev- eral times to supply more information about the Center's operations. In the interim, I would deeply appreciate any assistance you may be able to provide Nick and Jack. Most cordially, ~~an Enclosure RESOLUTION NO. 80-23 5 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA, ENDORSING AND 'SUPPORTING CALIFORNIA CRIME WATCH AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S PL~q TO RESTORE PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE 80'S WHEREAS, one United States household in five has been hit by crime at least once in the last 12 months, with either property stolen or a member of the household the victim of a Iphysical assault, according to the findings of a Gallup poll treleased in December 1979; and WHEREAS,the Gallup survey findings parallel the upturn ~in crimes reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation which 10~reported increases in every kind of major crime for the first six months of 1979; and WHEREAS, the Bureau of Criminal Statistics of the California Department of Justice has documented similar results; and 14 15 16 ~HEREAS, there has been insufficient public attention to the rights and plight of crime victims in our society and to "effective crime prevention programs to reduce the numbers of crime victims; a..~ ~'THEREAS, it is essential to inform the public of and '~t, roaden the availability and merit of effective methods of crime 17 ~revention to kelp minimize further disruption in the lives of iicrime victims; :~0~.~, THEPdEFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY the City Council of the 19 ',~ity of Tustin, California: That, in recognition of the foregoing ihnd the mandate contained in article V, section 13 of tile California ~0 i~onstitution, which proclaims the Attorney General to be California's Ichief law officer, the City Council of the City of Tustin, ~l'~Salifornia hereby takes this opportunity to endorse and support Ualifornia Crime Watch and the Attorney General's Plan to Restore ~ Public Safety in the 80's. PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City 2ouncil held on the 3rd day of March , 1980. ~4 25 26 MAYOR CITY CLERK 28 ~0 :51 52